<p>My S is in one of the top ten college and is going to apply med school. His stats</p>
<p>MCAT 32R (P 12, B 12, V 8)
sGPA 3.6
Major BME
EC: Volenter, Research (with one co-author paper be published and another one under review). Club officer....</p>
<p>The question is whether he need to apply more med schools this year (He want some of the top 30 med schools) or just wait until next year when he retake the MCAT (he said he can get V 10-11 if he do not mess up as what he did last time.</p>
<p>The deadline for this year is coming soon. Your advices are very important to me for discussing this with my s because he want to give up this year.</p>
<p>Applying this year would be a severe mistake, as your son’s friends and advisors are probably telling him. Many medical schools are on the verge of giving away 1/3rd of their spots, and your son has months and months to go before he’s ready for that.</p>
<p>Deadlines are meaningless. Apps which are “due” in October are really due in June or July.</p>
<p>Thanks for your advices. My s already applied 3 or 4 schools in the early Aug. My main concern is will the V score really hurt his chance? As the process is finished for his primary, will add more schools to his application list help?</p>
<p>Oh geez. He’s put himself into a VERY bad position by doing this. What on earth was he thinking? Duke’s premedical advising office should have stopped him. A primary in August is bad enough; doing one without an MCAT score is really killer.</p>
<p>I don’t have any advice for this situation.</p>
<p>Are you sure what you mean for the application time? If the med schools only take June and July apllication, why the dead line is in Oct? I know a guy who applied in last Aug and was accepted in a PhD/MD program this year.</p>
<p>^^^^ The deadline is October, but you have to understand that most medical schools have rolling admissions. So like the posters above me have said, medical schools start giving away spots early on, and those students whose files are done earlier, get interviews/acceptances earlier. Waiting one more year can’t hurt. Maybe study abroad for a year, do research, join a 1 year community service project abroad…all these are good ideas until your son decides to reapply for the next cycle…good luck.</p>
<p>It’s a dirty secret - being “early” is “on time,” and “on time” is effectively “late.” With your son’s weak MCAT score and unremarkable GPA, he should’ve been applying as early as possible.</p>
<p>Your son has three strikes against him - he applied late, he applied to too few schools, and he failed to score 10+ on each section of the MCAT. An VR score of 8 is undesirable, at best, and will likely keep him out of the top 20.</p>
<p>I also applied late (though not as late as your son) and to too few schools. My saving grace was my outstanding MCAT score, which your son does not have. I barely made it into medical school. Based on my experience, I think it’s likely your son will be unsuccessful this year. </p>
<p>If I were him, I’d abort the process for this year. Do not apply to any more schools! Having applied once to a school and been unsuccessful makes it harder to reapply to that place because they’ll want to see significant improvement in the application the second time around. Your son should focus on finding something worthwhile to do with his year off, plan to retake the MCAT and score 10+ on all sections with a total score higher than his current one of 32, and be ready to submit AMCAS the first week its open during the next cycle.</p>
<p>Ain’t likely to happen. Pedestrian EC’s , an 8, and a very late app. That’s usually 3 strikes. And if lightning were to strike him, well…we weren’t wrong. He’d just be Lucky Lou the Lotto-Boy.</p>
<p>1.) MD/PhD programs might be different.
2.) August is not late September.
3.) He probably had a good application in other ways.
4.) He got lucky.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. Add more school is my suggestion to my s and not from his advisor. He applied 3 or 4 schools in Aug b/c he just want to try out and in his mind he want to give up for this cycle. He said he really want to retake MCAT and very likely to rise his score to 35 or 36.</p>