297: What If You've Applied and Your MCAT Score Is Not Good?
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
If you've not taken my advice and pushed your MCAT back until June or July, you may be in for a rude awakening when you see your score. What should you do?
Links and Other Resource
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Check out my Premed Playbook series of books (available on Amazon), with installments on the personal statement, the medical school interview, and the MCAT.
- Related episode: What Is a Competitive MCAT Score?
- Related episode: How Will an Unbalanced MCAT Score Affect Me?
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Transcript
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| 0:44.3 | October 6th through 8th, MapCon presented by Blueprint |
| 0:47.6 | MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:49.8 | The pre-med year, session number 297. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to the three-time Academy Award nominated podcast The Premad Years, where we believe that collaboration, not competition, is key to your success. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with you stories encouragement |
| 1:15.5 | and information that you need to know to help guides you on your path to becoming a physician. Now welcome, welcome to the pre-med years. |
| 1:25.0 | I wish I could say I'm a four-time Academy Award nominated podcast, but I just got back from |
| 1:31.3 | podcast movement where they do the Academy Awards, the Academy of |
| 1:34.7 | Podcasts or Awards, and they didn't do them this year. |
| 1:38.0 | So it's not like I wasn't nominated, they just didn't have the award ceremony this year. |
| 1:43.0 | So hopefully next year they'll bring back the award ceremony and then I can hopefully have the |
| 1:48.0 | privilege of being nominated again and I can call myself a four-time nominee and four-time likely loser. Anyway, off on a tangent. I have a short episode for you today, something that came up today because I got an email from a |
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