a friend of mine received a call today saying that he has been granted an interview, but has been asked to take the April MCAT again. I think his score(24) is fairly competitive for SGU and he has a GPA of around 3.3 or 3.4. I looked up the stats on the SGU website and it says that the avg of matriculants is 26... his 24 isnt that bad! I dont see why he was asked to take the MCAT again? Any one have any ideas? Do You know if it is possible to get out of retaking that test again.. cuz seriously its not fun!!

I'd say thats strange. There are certainly those with scores under 24. I know a few people who were asked to retake the MCAT because they took a long time prior to applying. How long a go did your friend take it?

he took it in august 2005. strange huh?

Oh man, retaking the mcats is a serious bummer. I really don't know how he's going to get out of it though. If SGU asks you to dance, you dance... or you get kicked out of the ball =(

there could be a number of reasons- while his average is within reason, maybe an element of his breakdown was really really low- or maybe while his gpa (is that overall?) is decent, there could be a weakness in his science gpa- especially his core classes.
Also while the avg mcat is 26, the aug class tends to be more competitive and the avg for the aug class could be higher.

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asking people to retake the mcat is not unheard of in SGU.

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I know someone who was asked to retake the MCAT because of low scores on the verbal section.

However, she "bargained" with SGU and ended up getting to join the Alternate Program instead. I'd prefer that to retaking the exam myself.

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My friend called Bayshore and was told to write a letter to the Board asking them to reconsider. The person he talked to at bayshore also seemed surprised as to why he was aksed to retake the test. Hopefully it works out for him.

Well maybe this person got lower than a 24... Who knows...

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no i know he got a 24, hes a school friend. His verbal was a 7 which i dont think is that low for him to have to repeat the MCAT.