Recent content by macrophagefanatic

Uh, no. A gap year is in no way necessary with his stats.

From your practice scores, I think you could use some help from a 1V1 tutor. It's an expensive resource but they're typically very effective in terms of improving scores, so it can be a worthwhile investment if you can swing it. You could also try one of the MCAT self-paced courses but to me it...

From my understanding, they don't consider living in the state for a few years to be close ties. Usually it involves having attended a university in NC or growing up/spending most of your life in the state. Even if you fit that criteria, you'd still be considered an OOS applicant because you're...

UNC is veteran-friendly, but if you look at MSAR, they simply don't admit OOS students with a 510 MCAT score. Your GPA (even with the Post-Bacc) would also likely get you screened out. The interview slots for OOS applicants are extremely competitive. If you were in-state, it would be a...

Being that it's nearly July and you haven't begun to prepare for the MCAT, applying in hopes of matriculating without a gap year is just not a realistic option. I would do some research regarding the typical timeline for Medical School applications. The MCAT requires months of intense, focused...

Virtual scribing offers all of the pain in the neck aspects of scribing without any of the benefits lol. My advice is to not do any scribing unless it is in-person (unless you're doing virtual shifts in addition to in-person shifts to make some more money).

Oh, sorry. When I applied, I never had any secondaries where there was even any place to mention anything about MCAT scores or grades, so I assumed you were just talking about discussing it during an interview. Even so, I still don't think it's worth drawing attention to a negative. Yeah, it...

There is no point talking about it unless you're asked directly about it. If you're offered an interview with a school, that means your score (or average of your two scores) was good enough for them to warrant you worthy of taking time to learn more about you. They want to learn things that...

You have a lot of public state schools on your list that you are essentially just going to be donating money to because they accept very few OOS applicants, and the ones they do admit tend to have close ties to the state and/or better stats than you. Schools like ETSU, South Carolina (both...

Excellent! From your background, I think you would be an excellent fit there and would be surprised if you didn't get an interview!!

From what I've been told, it's 205 this year. It will then increase to 215 and then finally 230 in the coming years.

Depending on where in VA you'll be located by the end of your SMP, you might be in with a shot at ETSU (Quillen College of Medicine). They emphasize rural medicine and, while in-state heavy, they do give preferential consideration to OOS applicants who live in states that are within 250 or so...

While you're 510 is a solid score, you have included a number of state schools in your list that will likely filter you out due to your 510 and the fact that you're out of state. For example, unless you have very strong ties, I would recommend removing UNC and USC-Columbia from your list, for...

THIS. The MCAT is an absolute bear of a test that requires intense, focused preparation. Your prerequisite courses will obviously provide a baseline of knowledge that you'll need for the test, but this isn't a test that is just going to ask you simple questions that can be answered by...

You're not even finished with undergrad yet. There is absolutely zero reason to even be entertaining the thought of going to a Carribean school at this point. Your GPA obviously isn't ideal, but it's far from being so bad that it will prevent you from getting into solid DO schools (or even some...