Can I Get an Acceptance With a 496 MCAT? | Old PreMeds Ep. 331
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2023
- This student has a 496 MCAT but feels confident about the rest of the application. Should they apply now, or should they wait a year?
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Non-trad here.
Got 4 interviews and an acceptance this cycle so far. All of them DO programs. I have a 3.38 cumulative undergrad, 3.79 masters in molecular medicine, and 499 MCAT on second attempt (491 first attempt when I had no idea what I was getting myself into). I’ve gotten hundreds of hours of shadowing experience since my first attempt and have worked a year and a half teaching college chemistry labs for pre-nursing students while doing grad school and studying for the MCAT again.
If I can do it y’all can too. Take care everyone, keep pushing yourself⚕️
good job !
Great vid! I graduated last year with a business degree and have been working in finance for over a year now. I’ve always wanted to go into pathology but was quite fearful of not being able to keep up with med school. However I’ve decided to go all in to return to school and knock out premed requirements next fall, and your channel is definitely helping a lot!
Thank you for this! 😊
So, I a currently a Nurse Practitioner, have been working as a mid-level since 2018, however I am in the process of applying to medical school, as I want to be more active in the role of caring for patients and want to be a better provider through gaining more education at a higher level. Being a non-traditional student, how to I answer secondary application questions without sounding like I’m beating a dead horse of already being a provider and wanting to improve myself as whole? Many of my “leadership and team work skills” questions I have encountered have either come through working as an RN or as an NP, so I’m afraid I am going to sound boring.
The short answer is no. The student will not get into and is unlikely to get through a US med school with that score.
I'm not trying to be a jerk or a hater, but I don't want the person to waste their precious time applying when they should be retaking the MCAT.
What you want is irrelevant for the person that is applying. If I have actually followed advice of people like you that start phrases with "I don't want to be a jerk" or "I am just being realistic to save your time", then I would never have left my birth town in my country (Brazil) neither would have traveled to Japan and worked myself out of simple jobs while made college. Now, 15 years forward and leaving in the USA in my late 30s, I am a pre-med student, even though I often hear folks like your mind set telling me would be best maybe go to nursing??? Or health administration!? Well guess what, I people like you have not had half of the life I had, so the reality of time to you is not the same as it is for me or many non traditional students... So, picking from your start phrase, not trying to be a jerk here, but maybe your life is just too vanilla and safe until now for you to truly understand that people like me or that applicant are not afraid of "losing time" or fall and stand up again, because we have done it so many times and we know we can do it again if it is what we want. And when it comes to lower MCAT scores, it is not the only ticket to medical, there are other options, indifferent from what you like or judge as good, there are always options, and some schools inside the USA YES will accept lower MCAT scores, it comes to many other factors that you have no knowledge as the person that sent the question have not explained it well; and probably you are not part of any admissions board or an expert professor, so I truly doubt your advice is relevant when it comes to what every medical school of the USA prioritize neither the amount of information you have from the email sent by the inquisitor offer you a great deal of details that you can arrive to a simple answer as the one you offered... Honestly, the answer says more about your limited vision than it says about what medical schools are really about...
@@KelenKatsueKonishiLee Someone with a 496 would be an idiot for wasting their time applying when its obvious that no MD school would accept them with those stats. I'm trying to be genuinely helpful while you're accusing me of something else.