<p>acraig, have you been taking practice tests and scoring well on them consistently? A large reason why I encourage you not to persue the route you have mapped out is because of your GPA. It’s weak. You’ve only finished your freshman year. Even if you do stellar on your MCATs, your GPA is still very low. </p>
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<p>You still haven’t improved your situation in your case. Your gpa is 0.6 below the average gpa for matriculations and taking the MCAT this early will only lessen the amount of time you have for your supposed good score to be valid, decreasing the time you have to increase your gpa. Why will you not consider taking those classes you got AP credit for? Your history in college so far, albeit very little, does not exactly demonstrate that you can ace those classes, let alone rely on those AP credits to have given you a good understanding of the material. Are you against just taking those classes to get an easy A to strengthen your background? You can still take the MCAT next year after you find out that you are capable of getting A’s in the core sciences. Only after then, would I even suggest in the slightest that you take your MCAT since you will have a GPA that is a bit more on track.</p>
<p>Remember, MCAT score = valid for 3 years. Also, the higher up scores, 37+ tend to be a bit on luck so assume you got like a 40, which is beyond 99 percentile, chances are, you might not get that score again after it expires and you find yourself struggling to maintain a high gpa. Think about it, you didn’t do too stellar on your current undergraduate record, you really think upper level classes get easier? You’re making way too many assumptions and I really do see this thread as you only accepting confirmations to your route as opposed to really taking opinions and advice into account.</p>