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You do NOT need a statistics class. A statistics class will go way above and beyond. Statistics is the easiest part of the MCAT and can be learnt by yourself.

Also, statistics is a co-subject rather than an independent subject on the MCAT. What I mean is that questions on the MCAT requiring statistical reasoning will occur alongside one or more of the natural or social sciences. So a lot of practice questions that you will do in natural or social sciences will automatically build up statistical reasoning skills.

On a final note, contrary to popular belief, the psych/soc section is NOT as statistics heavy as everyone makes it out to be. The B/B and C/P sections have fewer but harder statistical reasoning questions. So even though statistics does show up slightly more in the psych/soc section, a lot of it is just simple charts and graphs.
 
Statistics on the MCAT is mostly analyzing graphs or finding the ____ percentile and their not even that common. The purpose is the psychology portion is to learn about human behavior and human interactions.

If I were you I'd focus on noticing tricks and patterns to the MCAT.
 
You need to know standard deviation, mean, median, mode, range, and how to interpret p values for significance.
 
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