Editors note: This article was updated in April of 2018. All information in it is current as to my knowledge. If you're reading this article, then you may have recently received some pretty bad news about your MCAT score. Hopefully, the bad news you received was a low score on a … [Read more...]
Can You Get into Medical School with a Low GPA?
It usually lands like a ton of bricks. You're going along from class to class, week to week, one semester to the next. Then, you get back a midterm, a test, or a lab. Then it hits you -- you realize that your grades have slipped below what you'd hoped … [Read more...]
What to Do When Your MCAT Score Drops
You may have heard the gut-wrenching story of a friend of a friend who studied for the MCAT, did well on practice tests, but when it came time for the real deal, everything fell apart, they broke down in a bundle of nerves, and their score was Not. Good. Or, … [Read more...]
Medical School Admissions: Unicorns and other Mythical Creatures
Have you ever heard something about medical school admissions that you thought maybe wasn't "quite right?" Have you considered at all that some of the rumors you've been told about the med admissions process aren't exactly true? There's a ton of "old wives' tails" out there around medical school admissions. … [Read more...]
MCAT Prep Needs a New Model
An open editorial to the premed community from Don Osborne, owner of INQUARTA.com Hi everyone. Before I started working as an admissions coach, I was an MCAT test prep instructor. For 15 years, I worked with well over 10,000 premeds, helping them with the MCAT. I shared in their joys … [Read more...]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the MCAT
Part One: MCAT Basics What is the MCAT? The MCAT is the Medical College Admission Test. It’s the “big deal” standardized test you have to pass before you can be considered for admission into medical school. It’s kind-of-like the SAT for medical college admissions. Who runs the MCAT? The MCAT … [Read more...]