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[tericarper]

Oh yeah, I'm posting again. Deal with it.

I have heard mixed things about MCAT scores. One friend tells me it is better to score a 10 10 10 than an 8 10 14. So hypothetically if I had an 8PS, 10BS, and 14VR, would the huge gaps between the numbers actually harm me?

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[8wishes]

Well, your total in the second case is 32, which is better than 30, so it's kind of hard to really compare. But I would think you'd want to do better on the science sections rather than verbal, if you were to have such a discrepancy between the sections. It's been a while since I took my MCAT, but that's what I remembered.

[tericarper]

Yeah I realize the second score is higher. That was the question I was asking - isit better to have a lower score with similarscores in each section or a higher score with bigger differences between individual sections. I haven't taken my mcat yet but 8 10 14 is what I am making on my last two practice kaplan tests. I honestly don't know if I can do anything about my ps section before my real exam and I'm just trying to see if I should bother sending in secondaries to a few of the schools I applied to.

[thelilyqueen]

My suggestion? Take at least one of the AAMC practice tests. They're the best at predicting what your score will be. Not that the Kaplan ones were *far* off, but...

[8wishes]

Ahh, I see the dilemma now. I thought you were saying 8 10 14 hypothetically, not realizing those were your practice test scores. I don't think 8 10 14 should stop you from sending in secondaries. More even scores or improvement in PS might be better, but 32 should get you into the door for interviews unless you're applying to top tier schools. Good luck!

[kaitlyn37]

I actually heard a lot of the opposite both before and after I took the MCAT -- better to have a high verbal. I heard from Kaplan, from college professors and from my pre-med advisor that the verbal correlates more closely to success in med school and on USMLE. Based on a completely non-scientific survey of myself and a few people I know, an "outlier" high verbal led to more acceptances than an "outlier" high science.