Don't be afraid man,

I took the exam three times,

28, 21 and then a 509

My CARS score was a 123 and I got 6 MD interviews and 1 MD acceptance.

However, IT IS IMPORTANT, you have your entire application (including secondaries) turned in by august. Also, make sure you really sell yourself, and try to include some of your hobbies in your personal statement.

Make sure you look up schools that do not average and only consider recent mcat. Here is a list from SDN that I used that proved to be invaluable.

Albany Medical College: Looks at all considers most recent score Albert Einstein: Most recent Boston University: All scores SUNY Buffalo: Highest score Columbia: Highest score Cooper: Highest score Dartmouth: All scores, latest given most weight Drexel: All but "interested in most recent" Duke: emphasis on highest score Eastern Virginia: Two most recent scores with a note on the highest score Frank Netter: High score Georgetown: Most recent GWU: Superscore Harvard: only looks at highest score Hofstra: Highest score JHU: Emphasis on most recent Loyola: All scores, "highest score given most weight" Medical College of Wisconsin: Super score Michigan: Highest or all? New York Medical College: Most recent two sets Northwestern: Emphasis on highest composite score NYU: High score Oakland University: All scores Ohio State: Highest only Penn State: All scores Rosalind Franklin: Most recent Rush: Emphasis on highest "only" Saint Louis: "Focus on high score" TCMC-highest scores Temple: Most recent Thomas Jefferson: Average scores Tufts: " Our policy is to consider the two most recent sets of scores and note the higher MCAT total of the two sets" Tulane: High score UCLA: All scores UCSD: All scores UCSF:Most recent University of Cincinnati: Average scores University of Colorado: High score University of Illinois: Highest score University of Miami: All scores most weight given to highest UNMC: All scores University of Pennsylvania: Most recent score University of Pittsburgh: Highest score University of Wisconsin: Average scores Upstate: Average USC: All scores Utah: Recent only Vanderbilt: Superscore Vermont: All scores VCU: Highest score Virginia Tech: Looks at all considers highest Wake Forest: All scores Western Michigan: Highest score Yale: Emphasis on recent Albany Medical College: looks at both, "considers most recent score" Virginia Tech: looks at both, "considers highest" Univ. of Miami: highest Johns Hopkins: emphasis on most recent Columbia: emphasis on most recent Yale: emphasis on recent Rush: emphasis on highest "only" Ohio state: highest only (also keep in mind they now require anatomy to be taken!!!) Buffalo state: highest George Washington: superscore Utah: recent only University of Pittsburgh: highest University of Pennsylvania: looks at both, considers highest (I'm assuming they average in reality. This is my guess based on the tone of voice I heard) Michigan: one answer said highest, by email they said they consider both. Extrapolate however you please -Albany: Most recent -Rosalind Franklin: Most recent -Drexel: All but "interested in most recent" -Quinnipiac: Highest score -Georgetown: Most recent -Medical College of Wisconsin: Superscore -NYMC: Last two, importance on most recent (may have been worded differently) -Temple: Most recent -Tufts: Last two, note the higher (may have been worded differently) -GWU: Superscore -Stritch: Last two, note the higher (may have been worded differently) -Wake Forest: All, note the highest (may have been worded differently) -Penn State: All scores considered (didn't say average) -U of Illinois: Highest score -Rush: Highest score -Oakland: Holistic (never e-mailed; from website) -UNMC: All scores U of Miami: All, note most recent EVMS: Highest Score U of Vemont: All VCU: Highest Score Western Michigan: Highest Score SUNY Upstate and Jefferson average all scores

DO school mcat retake policy KCUMB- best set of scores(called admissions) ATSU-KCOM - most recent score (called admissions) ATSU-SOMA-Im assuming it would be the same NSU COM - best set of scores (on there website) RVU COM - most recent set of scores (on their website) UMDNJ SOM (RowanSOM) - most recent set of scores (called admissions) DMU COM - all scores taken into consideration. PCOM-best section from each take (called admissions) PCOM GEORGIA - im assuming its the same PNWU - best section from each take (read on sdn) OUCOM - best section from each take (read on sdn) NYCOM - best section from each take (read on sdn) LMU DCOM- best set of scores (called admissions) UNECOM- highest TOTAL score within the last two years. (called admissions) CCOM- highest most recent(called admissions) AZCOM- highest most recent (called admissions) VCOM - VCOM SC - WVSOM- most recent(via Annette in admissions) TOURO NV- left a message TOURO NY- TOURO CA- Highest one (Called admissions) WESTERN POMONA-best set of scores WESTERN LEBANON- assume its the same WCUCOM- Highest one (called admissions) LECOM ERIE-best set of scores LECOM BRADENTON- best set of scores OSU COM- Highest one (Called admissions) MSU COM- KYCOM - ACOM- Most recent/all scores taken into consideration (called admissions) CUCOM- MUCOM- Highest one (called admissions) LUCOM-

Also, I only applied to 11 MD schools, all low tiers except for one. Also, I'm not a URM, and not from Texas.

ALSO, study for a retake during your year off just in case things don't pan out. Just study verbal over the course of the year, so if nothing works out, You can retake the mcat one last time in May.

Apply, and don't listen to SDN, they don't know what the fuck happens in the admissions.

And Make sure you tailor your application to really match the mission and values of those schools you apply to.