hopefulgradstudent Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 I'm applying for the first time to McGill and I don't know whether my MCAT scores will be a useful addition to my application or not I'm an in-province application, cGPA: 3.87, science GPA: 3.82, MSc GPA: 3.94, MCAT: Phys-126, CARS-127, Bio-125, Psych-127. I know that they say that your MCAT scores won't harm your application but I don't feel like they are particularly competitive or impressive and I would rather they look at my GPA. Any advice would be really helpful for a medical school application newbie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haribo7173 Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 If you submit the MCAT and it helps you, the MCAT will count for 50% and your science GPA for 50%. Notice that I said if it helps you. If it doesn't, they will only look at your science GPA. So you lose absolutely nothing by submitting it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sceptical Posted June 24, 2017 Report Share Posted June 24, 2017 On 6/22/2017 at 8:28 AM, hopefulgradstudent said: I'm applying for the first time to McGill and I don't know whether my MCAT scores will be a useful addition to my application or not I'm an in-province application, cGPA: 3.87, science GPA: 3.82, MSc GPA: 3.94, MCAT: Phys-126, CARS-127, Bio-125, Psych-127. I know that they say that your MCAT scores won't harm your application but I don't feel like they are particularly competitive or impressive and I would rather they look at my GPA. Any advice would be really helpful for a medical school application newbie! Also, keep in mind that McGill specifically looks at prereqGPA (biol 6cr, chem 6cr, orgchem 3cr, phys 6cr) rather than the broader "science GPA". When I applied ages ago, I submitted my MCAT results because I did much better than in my prereq courses. In your case, McGill notes that successful applicants score a prereqGPA of about 3.8 on average (source: https://www.mcgill.ca/medadmissions/applying/selection-process/academic-evaluation) so I don't think there's an added benefit in submitting your MCAT score. Then again, Haribo is correct in that McGill will only consider your MCAT scores if they boost your application (source: https://www.mcgill.ca/medadmissions/applying/requirements-edu/mcat) so I suggest you include them in your submission. Scep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopefulgradstudent Posted June 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Thank you both! That makes sense, I think i'll just let my prereqs speak for themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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