You accually shoudl be getting phone calls!
Thats how they let meknow at least. Either today or tomorrow you should know
Good luck! And when you get in go join the fb page for PCSOM class of 2015. We are all trying to add eachother and get to know eachother a bit before getin down there. And some of the 1st and 2nd years are giving some info on houseing too!
Luck!
Plus the lady makes hot fresh cookies at night and has them down in the lobby along with the fact that she makes sure the coffee is fresh and doesnt sit to long. I was told by one of the med students I was high rolling it becuase its one of the only hotels with a pool in Pikeville...I just picked it becuase I knew where it was and knew it was close enough to walk up to interview.
Hi futurecardio17,
I take it that you are going to attend PCSOM? If yes, then I have a bunch of questions for you. Have you looked into housing? Also, have you completed all the paperwork for matriculation? Are you going to review material like A&P before medical school, or are you going to take a breather? Did you get any schedule info for the class of 2015? AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: How do you feel about block exams?
Thanks
Possibly some light biochem review in there as well. But mostly from what i've been told you should take a little breather, after all its going to get crazy once we start!
Maybe you will still get lucky, I have heard they have one interview cycle in April. Don't give up too quick. What are your stats?
What type of masters would you go into? I had thought about getting an MPH before going to med if I didnt get in. I had foudn some decent ones online that way I could do alot of volunteering etc and bring up my mcat while I was at it. I even re-enrolled for the mcat course through kaplan and got new books (luckily all that was free through the gaurentee) now I'm stuck with books and the annoying emails from tehm even though I somehow managed to get in...I feel very lucky to say the least. There is ALWAYS next year, and if you bring up your stats that will help and they will see you are very serious for applying again. If you ever want to tour look class of 2015 up and I'm sure we would all be more than willing to show ya around.
Keep your chin up! You may still get some luck!
Looks like you are def a good candidate besides the mcat, but heck if you were like me I took the last date I could -in sept- because kaplan told me I could test through december (thank god i found out otherwise in time!) If you are interested I have a full set of mcat books that has never been opened along with the quick study guides and flashcards. After only a month of study I got mine up from a 21 <- practice mcat to a 25 on the real thing. If you want them I can post them on ebay so that you could pay through pay pal I believe ther are 5 boooks 5 quick study guides and the large set of notecards I'd be willing to part with em for $200 instead of the $275 they are worth for a fellow hopefully soon to be med student. they are seriously down in the kaplan box still taped shut since they sent it to me haha.
Keep up the good work getting all of your credentials up if it were up to me I would have nixed the mcat and said the rest looks good so let em in at least to interview! Who knows someday maybe I can do that
Still though dont give up! Good Luck!
Keep it up!
I was thinking maybe taking it in the late fall... so I had some graduate courses down..
I guess I was just curious on what you thought about it. My GPAs are both very solid but its just my MCAT that is holding me down lol.. So I figured taking 9 months to do a masters and this will definately prep me for the MCAT biological sciences section and then retaking it in like december would definately boost my application for the next year.. I just didn't know when I should begin studying for my MCAT again
So what if your down money, after all, if you get to live your dream quicker it was worth it right? Definatly DO NOT WAIT til late fall. The last test date until january this past year was Sept 11th and I ended up registering late because I had no clue it didn't go through Dec, had to drive almost 12 hours to get to a site that had it, up near toranto canada and I'm from OHIO. If you take it make sure you take it so you have scores back by june or july becuase you want to apply asap. I was lucky to get in getting my sec in in november. The sooner you get your materials in the better. They accept quite a few ppl before january.
AND if you are really interested in PCSOM, but want the back up, you can accept a program and then "regretfully" decline if you hear from pcsom and get in. I had accepted a masters program in public health that would be done in 5 quarters, before finding out that i got in at pcsom, then I just emailed them and said sorry i'm starting med school. I had gotten in to a few dif masters programs but stuck with one, too bad it isnt as easy to get into med
How bad is bad on mcat? if your gpa's are good (3.3+), your extracurriculars include shadowing or volunteering, and you have a great desire for med that you can both put on paper and interview about you may be better off than you think. How many schools did you apply to?
Also, deals out there for anybody, I've got a whole set of kaplan mcat review that you can self study with, the notes are priceless and some questions that were practice ones did come up on the test. I'd recommend doing mroe than one method, I didnt have time too, but afterward had wished I had done EK with Kaplan, and had gone through my PR books a little more in detail.
Definatly DO NOT WAIT til late fall. The last test date until january this past year was Sept 11th and I ended up registering late because I had no clue it didn't go through Dec, had to drive almost 12 hours to get to a site that had it, up near toranto canada and I'm from OHIO. If you take it make sure you take it so you have scores back by june or july becuase you want to apply asap. I was lucky to get in getting my sec in in november. The sooner you get your materials in the better. They accept quite a few ppl before january.
AND if you are really interested in PCSOM, but want the back up, you can accept a program and then "regretfully" decline if you hear from pcsom and get in. I had accepted a masters program in public health that would be done in 5 quarters, before finding out that i got in at pcsom, then I just emailed them and said sorry i'm starting med school. I had gotten in to a few dif masters programs but stuck with one, too bad it isnt as easy to get into med
How bad is bad on mcat? if your gpa's are good (3.3+), your extracurriculars include shadowing or volunteering, and you have a great desire for med that you can both put on paper and interview about you may be better off than you think. How many schools did you apply to?
Also, deals out there for anybody, I've got a whole set of kaplan mcat review that you can self study with, the notes are priceless and some questions that were practice ones did come up on the test. I'd recommend doing mroe than one method, I didnt have time too, but afterward had wished I had done EK with Kaplan, and had gone through my PR books a little more in detail.
This is to the guy b4 you gsun88-
I was hopeing for a bit higher but I guess it all happens for a reason...although I was getting ready to retake in May if I hadn't gotten in anywhere, Now I get to enjoy my 4 months off. If you can call them that, with volunteering and quite possibly studying up a bit on ANAT. Anyways though, even ifyou can't do some each night try coving a subject every 2 weeks, there is a course that a lot of the Ontario ppl have liked and its called MCAT 24 hour or something like that. I was 2 weeks away from getting it when I got in. Its 24 hours of work for each subject, a real Oomph for the last min. I had planne don doing 8 hours a day up till the test. Mind you its 24 hours a subject lol. And if you can find a weekend workshop to go too, I know I wish I had. After talking to people who scored really well they said that it helped to have a weekend before the test to sit down and really focus on the material. But I was plesantly suprised with the results...I can only imagine what I could have gotten with a few months of test prep instead of just a few weeks. This is to the guy b4 you gsun88-
Absolutly! Plan for the worst and quite possibly the best will happen! I know the september test was HARD alot of people thought the bio was harder than the other times they took it and many went down in score...who knows maybe the earlier dates will have better results
~Good luck! And heck I brough my score up 5 points (started at a 20 practice mcat) and in a month of a subject a week of reading kaplan books I got it up to a 25. Your GPA is great, acually a tad above mine, same writing score (which although over-rated they are trying to get it to count more in the medical school setting) I had around 100 hours of shadowing, 3 honor societies, and Biochem, microbio, anat, along with some of the other recommended classes. Plus most quarters I was deans list so that kinda helped too. I had a year and a half of 21 credit hour loads per quarter... 68 hours for one year and this year I end up with 50 I think. So just keep your chin up, you sound like your on the right track, ALOT of people have to retake mcat, its a pain in the bum test. I know I walked outa there crying, yes I know whimpy girl move but its true. After all I am a girl and am allowed to cry
Gsun is right you guys may get interviews come mid-march for the april interviews. All of us should hear one way or another from all schools we applied too by May 15th, becuase thats when everyone has to pick one way or another which school they are going too. I was a lets apply to every school within a 15 hour radius of home person, ended up with 33. Got secondaries from 27 of them, only have been turned down by 5 of those, waitlisted on a few others until more interview cycles have passed (although I'm not holding my breath). Still a couple I'd like to hear from but I'm happy with PCSOM
Good luck everyone!
I have already completed the secondary, and just received my MCAT score---, a low 23
3.2 GPA-Master degree in physiology, any remote chance?
also try emailing angel at [email protected] she is pretty good about getting stuf done as well. Send the link associated with your mcat score and explain whats going on, she will normally get back within a day. 
Thx futurecardio17! Yes, it was the January MCAT. I actually emailed a copy of my score report to Angel since I know how long AACOMAS could take. I have great LORS, serious research, lots of shadwoing (both DOs, and MDs), and lots of EC.MCAT was complete a little late...did you take it in January? If so your still ok. 3.2 isn't bad for a masters in physio at all, do you have any extras like shadowing etc? It might be a remote chance but still a chance, the only thing that would worry me is just now getting your mcat scores. I would get ahold of the office and see who to send the link to so they can verify instead of going through aacomas for the score (since it took aacomas 2 weeks to get teh three requests I sent them! ) Also, 23 is not bad at all! you have to remember taht avg is 24 and thats really a broad average not taking into account how hard the individual test was. The one I took in september everyone things was scewed down because of the biology so we all may have done a little worse than if we had taken another date. I've seen the "true" stats worked up to avg being between 22.3-24.4 depending on the month and test you had. So you may well have scored above average! There is only 1, maybe 2, interview sessions left but you still may have a chance. If you don;t get a hold of anyone leave a message, call again a few hours later and leave another one. they are pretty good about getting back after you leave multiple messages
They are looking at a lot of people who already have masters, I didn't and got in, but I've heard many people say they have already recieved a masters degree. So that bodes well for you. My mcat was just a few points above yours, I was a bio major with all pre-med courses, and most if not all extra classes recom for gettign into md and do schools. Plus I shadowed 2 doctors, had 3 honor societies, and am really good in person (thank god) at interviews. I only know the last one because when the dean called to tell me I was in I told him I thought I blew teh interview. He told me that I had in no ways blown the interview, that everyone REALLY liked me and that everyone had made a unanamous dicition before I had even left that I was in. <- sorry typeing fast i know this had A TON of mess ups :-(
But you have a chance, go with it. Get on the phone and make the calls, email angel and keep your fingers, and maybe your toes, crossed! Good Luck!
Well the ethics questions arose mostly from the previous administration (at least what I was told.) I would still be prepared for a couple though. I heard they are really laid back but my interviewer was quite intense and I left feeling crushed to be honest, he was really nice at the end though which leads me to believe he was just testing me...so be prepared for just about anything.
