<p>Hi guys! So I'm really dumb and just figured out that 2nd applications specific to each school were required/existed. I sent in my first application the 2nd day it was open, and everything is in except for the 2nd application part.</p>
<p>I just wrote 3 different essays for the different topics for each of my schools and sent in the 2nd application. Will sending them in this late (and especially so late after initial application) affect my chances in a significant way? I feel like I'll look stupid for not sending in the 2nd application earlier, but it was because NO ONE TOLD ME IT WAS REQUIRED (****ing school) and I didn't really go over application material too well.</p>
<p>For the record I'm a white female with a 3.8 GPA and a 13/13/13. I'm going into my senior year, and I took both semesters of bio, chem, and physics my junior year, and they were my only 3 classes each semester. I'm taking organic this coming up year and calculus (although I'm banking on getting into med school that doesn't require calc at all and then just dropping the class after I get in)</p>
<p>I only applied to 6, 4 in NY and 2 in CA. Well it’s not hard to fill out, the only hard part are the essays and the questions were all kind of the same</p>
<p>You applied to six schools? That might hurt you. I hope there’s a good spread in those six. Knocking them out in a hurry might also hurt you. July 27 should be okay, mostly. Some schools are rumored to use turnaround time as a gauge of interest, though, which would be bad news.</p>
<p>Would cramming in phys/bio/chem into 1 year and not taking anything else be bad for me too? I wouldn’t think so, but so many things about applying is weird</p>
<p>Even if they’re all 4 credits (counting lab), you’re still only at 12 credits. That is a little low, and might look like you took it easy to have it easier on you for those classes, but it’s probably not gonna be bad or anything. Not like taking Orgo over the summer at a community college or anything…</p>
<p>On second thought, with a 39 MCAT, you’re obviously pretty darn smart (or a damn good test taker) so that’ll probably dispel any notions that you couldn’t handle the work (as long as you had good grades, which I’m assuming you did with a 3.8).</p>
<p>You took the MCAT without O-Chem? Interesting… </p>
<p>Most schools have only sent out secondaries in the last few weeks, if this year is anything like last years cycle. So long as you finish by mid to late august, you are still pretty good.</p>
<p>omg thanks!! thanks for the helpful advice everyone. And don’t worry too much about MCATs! </p>
<p>I definitely think taking bio/chem/physics as my only classes for the year really helped on my MCAT prep, and also for the month before the test, I realized that the test emphasizes memorization and not understanding, so I literally just remembered definitions for everything. I could tell you all the steps of any cycle and what the cycle does but if you asked me why you needed a certain step I would draw a blank, though it didn’t really happen much on the exam</p>
<p>To be honest I never really worried about verbal. I don’t really remember the SATs or AP English, but I would expect the difficulty to be the same.</p>
<p>A lot of people told me the MCAT wasn’t just a “straight science test” but then I actually sat down and took the MCAT and the first passage of the physical science section had this long ass passage about this random new electrical invention and all the questions were about basic electricity and nothing about the invention. I didn’t even read past the 2nd paragraph. I think that put me in a good mood for the rest of the exam.</p>