My boyfriend's close friend/ former classmate who attended the UCS post-bac program scored a 45 in 2001 (well VR was scored 13-15). Before she went back to school she worked for NASA or something like that as an aeronautical physicist/engineer. She got into every school she applied to (ultimately went to UCLA because her fiancé/now husbad worked in Hollywood). She's now in her second year of residency at UC Irvine. I think her score was a combination of both smarts and hard work
but according to my boyfriend, she only started studying a few months before the MCAT when she took the Kaplan course. And other than all the engineering courses, she had the bare min. required courses. Probably the reason she got into every school she applied to (besides just the obvious MCATs and grades) is because she is really sociable. She can hang at a football game, talk about sports, crack corny jokes, and isnt the slightest bit pretentious (or so I hear since I have never met her).
Well, I guess I don't personally know her, but close enough...