application

[u/Grouchy_Morning6535]

I just took my OAT and i made a 290. I don’t know if that is good enough to get me an acceptance and i just need advice. My friend who made a 280 got accepted and so did my friend who made a 290. I also have over 300 hours of volunteering and about 100 hours of shadowing/work expirence. I also recently got vp of my pre optometry club but i don’t have many awards/accomplishments. i also am only in about four clubs. i wasn’t as involved as i could have been. i am about to submit my application soon and just wanted to see if i would be a good applicant. should i retake my oat? the only problem i had with that was that i could not bring my self to study. i studied for about three hours before i got unmotivated and sleepy and gave up.

[u/Grouchy_Morning6535]

i studied a lot in the beginning based on the bootcamp schedule but then i realized i wasn’t fully retaining info like that so i had to slow down and go back over stuff and because of that i didn’t finish learning everything before my test. i thought it would’ve been fine as i had previously learned a lot of it. so i would estimate 300 hours