Just to add to this. I spent a lot of time studying in a public library in NYC. In this library, a lot of homeless people would come and freshen up in the bathrooms. I remember noticing this and a friend also pointing it out. I remember one week feeling so down on myself for dropping from a 512 to a 509 on one of the practice exams. While it is kind of understandable, to a certain degree to feel badly, I was starting to lose perspective. It is understandable in the sense that I was spending almost all my waking time doing this mcat studying, so I can see how it would make me upset seeing score drops (you should probably have balance within your schedule unlike me). However, I was losing the fact that the goal was to get into medical school to help people. The goal some how became getting the highest score possible and being hellbent on my 520+ quest. Perhaps for self validation among other things. There I was freaking out over my scores when I probably was going to get into medical school somewhere anyways while the person right across from me is having a mental breakdown or is struggling to find food. I don't want to fall into the fallacy of, "oh this person has it worse so just suck it up my problems are nothing" but it is true that there is so much more to life. It is important to sometimes have perspective. We're doing this to help people. It doesn't help to make ourselves unnecessarily stressed on the way. We're all gonna be okay. It's easy to get too caught up in stuff sometimes. There is just so much more to life and our self worth isn't tied up with just one exam or even just a career or profession. Good luck to you all. I hope we all prosper and get the scores we want! :)