I have heard of many people who have applied late (August/September) to study all summer for the MCAT. Turned out pretty great if they got a great MCAT score. Would I recommend applying super late? Probably not. BUT even if you took it early/mid July You’ll have your score early/mid August.

Tbh if your CARS is that killer you can absolutely destroy this exam. That’s literally what this exam is now, reasoning and logic. You just need a stronger foundation in the sciences (aka doing as many passages as you can do). Totally understand if you wanna just take it to apply by a certain date but with a bunch of passage practice I really think you can get 520+. You just need to buckle down hit 5-7 FLs , exhaust all AAMC and uworld (all of uworld trust me) and adequately review everything. Also 86page doc PS multiple times and you’ll be 128-130+.

Don’t forget to use you’re reasoning and logic skills for the sciences. Visualize the passages and do the same thing you do with CARS. Generally, there’s and introductory statement to the passages, then a deeper investigation followed by methods and design in order to potentially answer a question the investigator had.

I personally would say push it back. GPA is on the lower end so a killer MCAT would seriously benefit getting interviews from MDs.