Guest ezaholic Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Did anyone ever try to have their writing sample remarked? Did you ever have a possitive outcome? How does one go about this? Thanks ez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kirsteen Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Hi there, I know one person who is now a first-year resident in BC, who had her WS remarked and achieved a positive outcome. Beware though, that doesn't always happen. There should be details on the remarking process on the MCAT website. Cheers, Kirsteen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezaholic Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 Thanks Kirsteen, I'm going to try it and keep my fingers crossed ez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ploughboy Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 ----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey there, Last winter there was a long-running thread which followed the progress of two or three of us who appealed our MCAT scores. Unfortunately, that thread has gone to the giant bit-bucket in the sky. I was one who wrote a letter, paid the fee and appealed my score. The AAMC then sent me a letter saying "ok, we'll review your essays" and about six weeks later I got another letter saying "ya, your essays suck so we're not going to change your score". That was really disappointing. It all worked out for me though. I was right on the edge for UWO, and the school dropped their WS cut-off by a point and somehow I managed to sneak into the '09 class. I believe somebody else who unsuccessfully appealed also wound up getting into UWO, but I haven't quite figured out which of my class-mates belongs to that handle. But I digress...Basically you have a window of time in which to appeal, and you have to pay a fee. All of the info is on the AAMC website. Your score can go up, go down or remain unchanged. It's a bit of a gamble in that respect, but if you're confident that your essays weren't so bad that your score will drop, then I think it's worthwhile to appeal. You'll be out $75 or so, but if it gets you into med school a year earlier than you otherwise would have then it's probably money well spent. I know I have my posts from that era saved on a hard-drive that's in a box somewhere. I'll try and track them down in a few days (assuming that I survive both my anatomy bell-ringer and the ensuing debauchery). Cheers pb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDVUA2/HNgbK3bC2wRAmpSAJ0Xf9VGVHxEyk0eGwnE8ZGa/p++twCZAWj/ xvkEyETw8BKm1ymIvSzljlw= =/2IF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest supa76 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 i applied for remarking last year as well, but after six weeks got the same mark returned to me! a waste of $75... i thought at the time that i had written fairly decent essays, and was distraught about getting an M. however this summer i figured out that i was writing the WS in the wrong way, with circular arguments and not really stating a clear conclusion. in any event, i re-wrote the mcat in august and received a 'P'. Not great, but definitely adequate for application purposes. Given I am terrible at writing essays in exam situations, I am quite happy with that mark! so make sure you understand the WS properly before you challenge their marking (and waste $75).. they are quite formulaic in their marking scheme, and you will not get above an M if you are missing any parts of the formula (i.e. the 3 'tasks'), no matter how well you can write. Not until I read through an mcat-WS prep book did I realize what I was doing wrong. My original 'M' was well deserved. russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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