40 on the MCAT?

[Mansoor]

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Anyone here ever get a 40 on the MCAT? How often do you think this happens? You think anyone has EVER gotten a 45?

 

[vyc]

up until now (i'm not sure when this changed or if it even has already) the verbal score was only up to 13. after that, the score was reported as 13-15. so i guess someone who got that could bump up their score and pretend they got a 15 on the verbal but i'm more inclined to say the MCAT used to be out of 43.

i'm sure perfect scores have been done...

 

[Jalby]

My roomate got a 41 on it.

 

[oldman]

i've known a few people getting 40s. 2 personally. Both are at Hopkins Med School. they were both 4.0s too!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

 

[moo]

My friend has a 40/3.9. He got rejected at his home school. (Legend knows which home school that is.)

 

[paean]

Actually the verbal section went up to 15 until they instituted the 13-15 score two years ago. A 40 is possible, even for non 4.0 students. If you look at the score distribution for the MCAT, you see that a few people get 43-45's every time.

It's not a guarentee of getting into a "top" school. I had a 38-40, and out of 23 completed apps, got 3 acceptances and 8 waitlists. The acceptances were at a top 20 school, a top 50 school, and one very low tier school. Not Hopkins. I met a number of others interviewing with similar scores and acceptance patterns.

 

[Dr. Kermit]

My friend got a 41-43 (13-15V,14P,14B). He was accepted at WashU, NW, Chicago, UCI, and Hopkins. He will be a MS-1 at NW next year on a full ride.

 

[ewells]

If you get a 13-15 on the verbal, it is because you got every question right. If you get 100% on the verbal, you can say you got a 45 (or whatever it adds up to) in my book. The reason they switched to a 13-15 range is because too many people were getting them all right, which messed with their statistics.

 

[VC15]

The switch to the 13-15 system was made because it was too hard to differentiate among the people at the top of the pool. However, I seriously doubt you need 100% to get 13 in verbal. Low-Mid 50's should be around 11 scaled, so unless 12 represents a huge range, you don't need to get every question right for a 13. Plus, if so many people were already getting all the questions correct, reducing the number to 60 (starting next year) wouldn't help in separating the 15s from the 13s.

 

[RLMD]

On the AAMC Practice Test 2, getting 60 of the 65 right on verbal gave you a 10, and i think you could get another point for each one you got right after that. So getting 63-65 right gave you the 13-15 score.

 

[lady bug]

A guy in my histology class got a 40 on the MCAT. He's around age 50 (even has grey hair) and he's applying to med school. He amazes me.

 

[gmendese]

My old MCAT instructor got a 42-44 on the MCAT a few years ago (13-15, 15, 14). He was told by his Harvard interviewer that it was the highest MCAT score he had ever seen. He got in, but he chose UMass, where he is now.

 

[ewells]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by VC15:
•The switch to the 13-15 system was made because it was too hard to differentiate among the people at the top of the pool. However, I seriously doubt you need 100% to get 13 in verbal. Low-Mid 50's should be around 11 scaled, so unless 12 represents a huge range, you don't need to get every question right for a 13. Plus, if so many people were already getting all the questions correct, reducing the number to 60 (starting next year) wouldn't help in separating the 15s from the 13s.•••••Because so many people were getting perfect scores, they could not maintain the bell curve they use to determine scores (ie. they could only allow X% 15's and 2X were getting perfect scores). Their solution was to make 65/65 a range, where 2X just about equals the percentile who get 13-15.

 

[oldman]

i will now stop reading this thread. hearing about 40+ on mcats just gives me the heebeejeebees.

 

[VC15]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by RLMD:
•On the AAMC Practice Test 2, getting 60 of the 65 right on verbal gave you a 10, and i think you could get another point for each one you got right after that. So getting 63-65 right gave you the 13-15 score.•••••I've seen AAMC 2, but it's quite out of date nowadays. On AAMC V you need around 50-53/65 to get a 10.

 

[Legend]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by moo:
•My friend has a 40/3.9. He got rejected at his home school. (Legend knows which home school that is.)•••••yeah... F&** them !

 

[BlueJayBill]

I don't think getting a 40+ is that uncommon, or the holy grail either. I knew a kid who had a 40-42 and wasn't accepted anywhere this cycle (he had a 3.6).

I took mine last august and was able to pull a 41 on it. In my class, I think there were 7-8 who broke 40 in that exam. Just throwing it out there.

 

[Original]

I taught physical sciences for the last 2 yrs for Princeton Review, so I know about say 7 people personally that broke 40's on their MCATs <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> . I got a 33 = I am not worthy 😛 .

 

[SuzyQ]

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> oh geez....this thread is really depressing me

 

[lady bug]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by SuzyQ:
• <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> oh geez....this thread is really depressing me•••••Yes, this thread worries me too. 🙁 I better start bringing up my practice test scores.

 

[STi555]

Don't be depressed 40+ is quite uncommon look at the information on AAMC's web site <a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/famg62001a.htm" target="_blank">http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/famg62001a.htm</a>

Of course there are people that get 40+ but remember how many people are taking the MCAT ever year.