Balanced Score?

[apgar]

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So I know that everyone says that a balanced score looks best, but at what point do differences between sections constitute an "unbalanced" score? For example, everyone would agree that a 37 is a great score. However, what if it is made up like this 14P 10V 13B? Would this be considered unbalanced?

 

[MCAT guy]

So I know that everyone says that a balanced score looks best, but at what point do differences between sections constitute an "unbalanced" score? For example, everyone would agree that a 37 is a great score. However, what if it is made up like this 14P 10V 13B? Would this be considered unbalanced?

No. This would not be unbalanced.

The idea of balanced score would mean to have all strong scores. In other words, no weaknesses. If I had a 15, 7, 15 then that is an unbalanced 37 because my VR would be in the bottom 10th percentile at every MD school in America. The whole point is to not have a portion of your individual scores to dip into a 10th percentile range. If all 3 scores are at or above the median, then this can't be unbalanced.

10+ in anything isn't unbalanced. A 37 is a very good score. Remember this is SDN where people think a 31 is not good. A 31 is the average for accepted medical students I believe.

 

[PharMed2016]

So I know that everyone says that a balanced score looks best, but at what point do differences between sections constitute an "unbalanced" score? For example, everyone would agree that a 37 is a great score. However, what if it is made up like this 14P 10V 13B? Would this be considered unbalanced?

I would say that this score is balanced. As long as all the sections are above 10 ~ you have nothing to worry about. On the other hand if your sections were 15P/7V/15B ~ this is clearly unbalanced. In order to be competitive in this environment that we have nowadays, you need pretty much 10s/11s across the board.

 

[PharMed2016]

10+ in anything isn't unbalanced. A 37 is a very good score. Remember this is SDN where people think a 31 is not good. A 31 is the average for accepted medical students I believe.

People on SDN are a bunch of overachievers. 😀

 

[MCAT guy]

People on SDN are a bunch of overachievers. 😀

agreed. It's just funny when people on here think that is not a very good score.

There's more to life than test scores.🙂

 

[PharMed2016]

agreed. It's just funny when people on here think that is not a very good score.

There's more to life than test scores.🙂

One of the truest words every written.