Brief Profile:
Please note that the cumulative and science GPA listed are my AMCAS GPAs, factoring in my undergraduate and post-bacc coursework together as one GPA. My GPA at MIT was terrible!
Original undergraduate GPA: 3.11 Original undergraduate science GPA: 2.33
Graduated college with poor grades 6 years before submitting my primary. Worked as a tutor, then as an engineer, and then did my post-bacc. Got a 4.0 in my post-bacc work and aced the MCAT, and crammed 18 hours of volunteering and 20 hrs of paid research / tutoring into my schedule each week, and 2.5 years later I was accepted into medical school.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/21/2013
Undergraduate college: MIT
Undergraduate Area of study: Engineering/Technology
Institution: Rutgers
Area of Study: Premedical Studies
Total MCAT SCORE: 523
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 131,
C/P 132,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.54
Science GPA: 3.78
Summary of Application Experience
I wish I had applied to more top schools. If you're like me and got bad grades a long time ago, but totally rocked the MCAT and have shown an interest in medicine, you should really apply to as many top schools as you can. I applied to 2 top 20 schools and 18 others. I wish I had applied to 10 top 20 schools and maybe 10 others.
The result probably would have been the same, but I would have liked to know for sure that I wouldn't get into, say, Yale or Penn without just assuming so and not applying.
Summary of Experience:
Frequent communication with admissions office; I was invited to apply for the Bassett program and I got the impression that they were on the fence about inviting for an interview and wanted to see a substantial update.
Summary of Experience:
too expensive anyway. I wouldn't have been willing to come here because of the cost of attendance -- I should not have applied here in the first place.
Summary of Experience:
I applied here late because I thought I stood no chance...I decided to apply once I got an encouraging e-mail from the Dean of Admissions. Thankfully I was marked complete within hours of submitting my secondary!
I was then summarily rejected 2 months later. I feel swindled.
Summary of Experience:
I said something stupid in my secondary and I suspect that's why I wasn't interviewed after being marked complete. However, I took pleasure in withdrawing my application before they could render a formal decision.
Summary of Experience:
Amazing new school. Took me a while to decide whether I should attend the interview following my Ohio State acceptance, but the Michigan invite sealed it for me. I only have the time and money to go to one interview and January, and it HAS to be Michigan!
Summary of Experience:
The joke in my secondary didn't kill my chances, after all. But with an acceptance at Ohio State, I don't see much reason to attend an interview here.
Summary of Experience:
I was invited to interview even though I never submitted a secondary! WOW!
I got pretty excited after doing research on this school after being invited to interview. I had otherwise not planned to complete my application.
I entered my interview very excited about the school, but I was rubbed the wrong way by the presentation and my interviewers.
I was hoping for an acceptance just so I had the option of attending a P/F school with little to no required lecture time. I also thought it might help me get a good offer of financial aid from Ohio State -- a school where I felt much more comfortable.
Upon being added to the wait list, I withdrew my application. Who cares? I honestly think Ohio State is a better school anyway.
Summary of Experience:
Very low-key interview day. I get the impression that the admissions office doesn't care too much about selling the school -- or maybe doesn't have the resources to -- but the staff and students here are incredibly easy to talk to pretty much universally.
totallyradnontrad took the old MCAT and scored a which is in the percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a on the updated scale which is in the percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted totallyradnontrad’s section scores as follows:
totallyradnontrad scored a 14 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 131 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
totallyradnontrad scored a 14 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 132 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
totallyradnontrad scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
