silverbullet1 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Here's my story. I have a BA, JD (Juris Doctor) and MBA. I have a cGPA (not including MBA) of 3.41, no drops. For various reasons, I am not finding the practice of law to be fulfilling, but I have done some health law work and find the medicine aspect to be fascinating. I don't want to go into my reasons for applying at great length here, but sufficient to say the decision has not been made lightly. My question is what VR score on the MCAT would I need for an interview? I did extremely well on the LSAT/GMAT, and so I feel my chances of doing well on the MCAT VR are also quite high, if anyone has experience with both can they comment on this? How do they score the CASPER (assuming anyone knows)? What is the value of the 1% benefit of having a Masters Degree? Does my experience in health law matter? Letters of reference will be challenging as I've been out of school for a bit of time now, as they mandatory? Can I get them from work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1428 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 1. 13-14+ for a realistic chance. If you did well in the LR/RC sections, it's likely that you will also do well on VR- some people actually use LSAT tests as practice for verbal. 2. Med students score the test- why does this matter? 3. A significant value I think. My story is very similar to this one. (except i can't do a back flip). I have 3.4gpa at uoft and scored 11 on VR. I finished an MSc before applying for the 3rd time. This was the only time I was offered an interview. And I was only offered the interview off the waitlist (and just like dblu, I was psyched). Casper felt decent to me, but not amazing. The interview went pretty well i thought. I felt better about it than Casper. I was also accepted into first choice of site location on May 5th. having a bad gpa is tough. but it's still possible to get into a school. good luck. Did my undergrad, did a lot of nothing for the first bit except drink and play rugby, finished with 3.44 in undergrad. This was my third time applying, and most likely the last before I either gave up, or shipped off to Oz. I had a M.Sc. in progress during the app (so it didn't affect my score), have a few presentations in peer-review confs, and a few manuscripts in the works but no pubs. My VR was 10, so just below average for last year (10.8 or something?). I neither liked nor disliked casper, and although I didn't think the interview went badly, I did not leave feeling like I killed it. One thing I did come away with from the interview was that I didn't feel like I bombed a station, I thought I was pretty consistent the whole way through (which wasn't hard since I just said the first thing that popped into my head....) Also, I received an interview off the interview waitlist (I was stoked to find out there was such a thing), and got my first choice on May 5. Short answer to your question. I did nothing differently, the only difference between then and now was I got older..........and I learned how to do a backflip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUM6n6b88Y) Hope this at least gives someone a little hope to stick it out, things can work out eventually! http://www.premed101.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52487 ...but this was when CASPER= 50% pre-interview (and 25% VR, 25% GPA). 4. No. 5. They are mandatory. Depends on who you get them from. On my interview day, I asked the 1st year med student guiding us. He said Mac uses reference letters after the interview in case of a tie-breaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbullet1 Posted February 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 but this was when CASPER= 50% pre-interview (and 25% VR, 25% GPA). What is the weighting now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1428 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 What is the weighting now? Took me 2 whole seconds to search for this: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/mdprog/selection_process.html Have a look through the interview invites thread to get an idea: http://www.premed101.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73353 ...and trojjanhorse's stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArlB46Pi6-RmdFpWQlA0Qld2R1R5cU5NcWxvOTgyZWc#gid=0 Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbullet1 Posted February 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Thank you. Really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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