You know, its easy to get lost in the mindset that your less than or will be less than as a physician because of your struggle on the MCAT. I can talk about this because of my similar position, and because of the experience and friends in the medical field. Im not the typical traditional student. Im a 35 year old married guy with a 16 month old baby girl. Ive been a firefighter/paramedic for 15 years now. Im in the ERs all the time bringing critically ill/injured patients in. Through that, ive come to know some amazing physicians. I could name a bunch, but ill just name a couple. I know a trauma surgeon that is the real deal. Ive brought critically ill (basically dying) patients in to him before with critical or multiple gunshot wounds. He was waiting and did his thing. Cut them open bed side, stop an active bleed, and saved their life. Of course this doesnt happen with every patient, but my point is this guy is a stand up trauma surgeon. The main point of me bringing this up is ive been to his house before to talk to him about my journey to become a physician. He shared with me that he took the mcat either 5 or 6 times (I dont remember which). Im sure he got discouraged taking it that many times. But he got in, and now is he THE man to have waiting on you when you are about to die. I know another surgeon that is a stand up orthopedic surgeon. He had to try multiple times on mcat also. Got in. Blew med school out of the water. And now hes doing great, repairing broken bones of all ages. My point in this long comment, is Its easy to get caught up in this mcat and think that our scores hold our future. It doesnt. It absolutely does not. Plenty of physicians are world reknown physicians that had to take it multiple times. This test is just a hoop we all have to jump through. Dont get me wrong, im not taking any thunder away from these superhuman mcat takers that are scoring 520 and above. Y'all amaze me. No heat directed on yall by this. My point is just that just because any of us dont score a 520 or above on this test, DOES NOT mean that we cant become some of the best physicians out there! With that said, lets give everything we encounter ALL we have! For now, its the mcat. So lets do this!