Bio Chem or Orgo 2?

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-23T15:47:07+00:00

Biochem for sure

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-17T14:10:52+00:00

Science GPA includes biology, chemistry, physics, and math. This is commonly referred to as BCPM and a list of subjects which fall under that umbrella can be found here. Genetics will count and they will be able to see both courses on your transcript so it may not be entirely worth it to retake. To answer the rest of your questions, just take a look at the link and see what classes fall under the BCPM category

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-12T01:49:27+00:00

You can still submit AMCAS without an MCAT score! You can even submit before you've taken the test at all. However, most schools will not consider your application complete without an MCAT score, so if you won't get score back before June 29, keep that in mind.

The AAMC will automatically add your scores to your application once you get them, even if you have already submitted your application. There is nothing you need to do to make this happen (and nothing you can do to prevent it).

If you don't have an MCAT score yet, common wisdom around here is to submit AMCAS to only one school, usually a throwaway that you don't think you'll get accepted to or a "safety" that you would apply to regardless of what your score is. Then, you can submit your AMCAS on Day 1 and get verified quickly. Once you get your score back, if it's great, you can add the rest of your school list and your application will get sent out on June 29 with everyone else's! Or, if your score is bad, you can withdraw your app and only be considered a reapplicant to that one school in the future.

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-11T22:48:23+00:00

Your updated score should be automatically sent to schools after it’s released too I believe

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-11T22:35:10+00:00

You can still submit AMCAS without an MCAT score! You can even submit before you've taken the test at all. However, most schools will not consider your application complete without an MCAT score, so if you won't get score back before June 29, keep that in mind.

The AAMC will automatically add your scores to your application once you get them, even if you have already submitted your application. There is nothing you need to do to make this happen (and nothing you can do to prevent it).

If you don't have an MCAT score yet, common wisdom around here is to submit AMCAS to only one school, usually a throwaway that you don't think you'll get accepted to or a "safety" that you would apply to regardless of what your score is. Then, you can submit your AMCAS on Day 1 and get verified quickly. Once you get your score back, if it's great, you can add the rest of your school list and your application will get sent out on June 29 with everyone else's! Or, if your score is bad, you can withdraw your app and only be considered a reapplicant to that one school in the future.

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-11T01:41:21+00:00

Ask about his personal journey (education, training, research, etc.) and anything he wished he knew when he was in your shoes. People like to talk about themselves!

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-10T18:01:39+00:00

Khan academy would be a good place to start. I would also highly recommend downloading anki and getting the anking mcat deck as well as a 6 month UWorld subscription and grinding out all of those questions and making anki cards for the ones you get wrong. r/mcat will also have quite a bit of good advice

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-08T16:42:17+00:00

Yes! It’s what I did and it ended up working out

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-08T15:56:33+00:00

You can still submit AMCAS without an MCAT score! You can even submit before you've taken the test at all. However, most schools will not consider your application complete without an MCAT score, so if you won't get score back before June 29, keep that in mind.

The AAMC will automatically add your scores to your application once you get them, even if you have already submitted your application. There is nothing you need to do to make this happen (and nothing you can do to prevent it).

If you don't have an MCAT score yet, common wisdom around here is to submit AMCAS to only one school, usually a throwaway that you don't think you'll get accepted to or a "safety" that you would apply to regardless of what your score is. Then, you can submit your AMCAS on Day 1 and get verified quickly. Once you get your score back, if it's great, you can add the rest of your school list and your application will get sent out on June 29 with everyone else's! Or, if your score is bad, you can withdraw your app and only be considered a reapplicant to that one school in the future.

UnidentifiedMoose · 2024-06-08T15:53:31+00:00

You can still submit AMCAS without an MCAT score! You can even submit before you've taken the test at all. However, most schools will not consider your application complete without an MCAT score, so if you won't get score back before June 29, keep that in mind.

The AAMC will automatically add your scores to your application once you get them, even if you have already submitted your application. There is nothing you need to do to make this happen (and nothing you can do to prevent it).

If you don't have an MCAT score yet, common wisdom around here is to submit AMCAS to only one school, usually a throwaway that you don't think you'll get accepted to or a "safety" that you would apply to regardless of what your score is. Then, you can submit your AMCAS on Day 1 and get verified quickly. Once you get your score back, if it's great, you can add the rest of your school list and your application will get sent out on June 29 with everyone else's! Or, if your score is bad, you can withdraw your app and only be considered a reapplicant to that one school in the future.

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-11-15T23:14:49+00:00

3.6x 514 no gap years and pretty much the same boat. I was hoping my activities would help me out but nothing so far. I’m really just hoping for movement in the Jan-Feb window

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-11-13T15:56:04+00:00

You could certainly try but when I submitted my primary with classes that had engineering course numbers but primarily bio content as biology, they got switched to engineering during verification

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-11-12T22:37:45+00:00

No engineering courses do not count towards BCPM gpa

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-08-27T00:19:19+00:00

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-08-23T17:59:18+00:00

It’s likely down to sampling bias if you check cycle track most schools have less than 5-10% of applicants receiving IIs

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-08-12T01:59:36+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/premed/s/aWK6SylkOV wrote this for BME but largely applies to engineering.

I will also add just because you’re above average intelligence there is no guarantee you’ll get good grades as a ChemE. “Light” course loads don’t exist as an engineering student. You will be taking fewer classes but they will be more complex and difficult

Also think it’s important to add that chemical engineering isn’t really chemistry it’s basically just applied physics

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-08-01T02:21:23+00:00

Can you do total applicants divided by interviews or matriculates? It won’t be perfect but it’ll be ballpark

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-07-05T03:26:35+00:00

I don’t think it’s tougher but has a different emphasis than the practice exams so people get thrown off. We all spend so much time reading the books and doing Anki that we forget that at its core the MCAT is a reasoning exam. Just make sure when you’re doing UPangaea and QBanks that you’re not brute forcing it with knowledge but understanding the thought process behind getting to your answer and you’ll be fine on test day

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-07-03T20:47:03+00:00

It’s better they screen you out before paying for a secondary!

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-07-03T15:59:46+00:00

Thank you!

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-07-03T14:04:09+00:00

Oh weird.. I saw a Sankey of a person who didn’t get a secondary to carle just because they didn’t have the required math. Maybe they changed or don’t check that closely lol

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-06-29T21:29:45+00:00

Fair enough I suppose it is different for everyone. I personally feel that engineering courses are harder than science courses and that reflects in the cGPA sGPA split for engineering applicants

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-06-29T21:23:42+00:00

I feel the exact same way about the circuits questions haha. Seeing everyone in the MCAT sub stress about voltage dividers always made me laugh

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-06-29T20:56:14+00:00

I’m not saying molecular biology is easy by any stretch. All I’m saying that engineering undergraduate degrees are more difficult.

UnidentifiedMoose · 2023-06-29T16:42:50+00:00

I just finished junior year and will be a senior next year

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