Are there any schools that actually take the writing score into consideration?

[stayclassy]

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Do any schools actually care if you have a high writing score? I would assume none, but entertain me

 

[Brent8927]

Do any schools actually care if you have a high writing score? I would assume none, but entertain me

I would assume this as well. I did pretty well on the writing sample (an S) and the most I got was at one interview the interviewer said "oh, it looks like you write well."

 

[quynhhuong]

I think all they care about is that you understand what the question asked and presented it well in a short amount of time. If you score a 42 and have a k in writing, that would raise a big flag and they'd wonder what's going on? Doctors are required to do lots of chart works so they just wanna know if u can process and type English well, i guess.

 

[student1799]

Do any schools actually care if you have a high writing score? I would assume none, but entertain me

Well, if you apply in Canada they care a lot about it. 🙂 The poor Canadians have to get at least an "R," or they have to retake the MCAT, even if they got a fantastic score.

 

[stayclassy]

Well, if you apply in Canada they care a lot about it. 🙂 The poor Canadians have to get at least an "R," or they have to retake the MCAT, even if they got a fantastic score.

Are you joshing me? That is unbelievable.

Brent: I scored the same, lol. I was hoping it'd be something to talk about heh

 

[GoSpursGo]

Moving out of What are my Chances, into the main Pre-Allopathic forum.

 

[armybound]

Kaplan likes to say that it's best to do well because it could be the tie-breaker between you and someone with similar stats.
I say it's rubbish.

I doubt anyone would ever care what your writing score is unless you do poorly. They'll probably care more about how your personal statement is written than how you scored on your MCAT written section.

 

[NickNaylor]

I think the writing score probably has very little impact. They can see your writing ability in your PS. The only reason I would put value in the MCAT score is because you could be certain that the writing is, in fact, the applicant's writing (something you can't necessarily assume for a PS).

 

[virusgirl]

My interviewer at VCU told me that the writing score is only taken into consideration if you have bombed every other opportunity to demonstrate that you can, in fact, read and write. That is, if you got a VR score of 5 and your PS was a disaster, the WS is your last chance to show that you are literate.

 

[0Complications]

My interviewer at VCU told me that the writing score is only taken into consideration if you have bombed every other opportunity to demonstrate that you can, in fact, read and write. That is, if you got a VR score of 5 and your PS was a disaster, the WS is your last chance to show that you are literate.

But at that point, does it really matter?


I've heard (while I don't remember where at) that if you score very well in writing it can help a little, but on the flipside of that coin, if you score very poorly it can hurt you a little.

If you're average, I don't think it really matters. It is most likely just the extremes on either side of the spectrum that get noticed. Overall though, I don't think it will really matter much.

 

[Appless]

It doesnt matter at all no schools will care what you get unless you somehow get like the lowest score (L?), even then its more of a wtf moment and it can easily be overlooked if you had a decent verbal and composite. Even in published studies they have shown that the writing is basically useless, but yet we still have to waste 1 hour doing it🙂.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

I think as long as you dont get below an M it wont hurt you much....maybe an S or T would help you, but I wouldnt know im a pretty mediocre writer. "P" for me

 

[Typical Premed]

I am a Canadian applicant and I got a 36P on the MCAT. I was instantly rejected by 2 Canadian schools due to the P in the writing sample (they both had strict cutoffs of Q).

 

[stayclassy]

I am a Canadian applicant and I got a 36P on the MCAT. I was instantly rejected by 2 Canadian schools due to the P in the writing sample (they both had strict cutoffs of Q).

"Blame Canada"

 

[afugazzi]

I somehow managed to get a 39M (12 on verbal reasoning). No one seemed to care... I think one of the interviewers asked about it, but when I said I wasn't sure why I bombed the writing, he seemed pretty sympathetic.

 

[LAman10]

haha they can see your PS. I think they'll trust that more than your R/S/T (even though PSs are polished as heck)

 

[slick27]

The writing sample is werid. The first time I took the mcat I thought I wrote some of the best essays of my life and got a M. The second time I thought I wrote two of my worst essays and got an O. Werid.

 

[pietachok]

Well, I got a T on my writing, and I sure don't think it helped me by outweighing a mediocre GPA....3 yrs of applying before I got in anywhere, or basically got even interviewed anywhere. Nobody ever mentioned it. And I think if it somehow was factored into screening the way the rest of your GPA + MCAT are, I would have gotten more "points" and gotten interviewed at more places.

My stats were 3.45, 3.21 BCMP, and 34T.