Does anyone know which med schools super score MCAT results? Or take the higher score?

[AB0915]

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Does anyone know which med schools super score MCAT results? Or take the higher score?

 

[gyngyn]

MCW, Vanderbilt and GT "superscore" (I believe).
No matter what most of them say, it's really hard to know how individual examiners are going to evaluate multiple scores. They are all visible and open to idiosyncratic interpretation.

 

[KnightDoc]

Does anyone know which med schools super score MCAT results? Or take the higher score?

I suggest MSAR or call the schools you are interested in directly (or, just look on their websites!). There is enough bad information on the interweb that I wouldn't rely on it for something like this.

Med school isn't UG, and AAMC recommends an average of multiple scores, as opposed to doing whatever benefits the applicant the most, like many UGs do nowadays. I seriously doubt many schools would super score. All schools you apply to see all scores. Some will give more weight to the highest score. Others to the most recent. Others to the average.

Again, the only authoritative answer is MSAR or the school itself, and even then it's not 100%, because individual adcom members can still weight scores however they see fit, regardless of "official" school policy.

 

[lacrossegirl420]

Since Vanderbilt superscores, are the medians they list on their MSAR a result of superscoring then? (eg. a 521 could have been from a 130/122/131/130 and then a 129/130/129/129 or something)

 

[KnightDoc]

Since Vanderbilt superscores, are the medians they list on their MSAR a result of superscoring then? (eg. a 521 could have been from a 130/122/131/130 and then a 129/130/129/129 or something)

Of course!!! If that's the score they are using, then certainly it's the score they are reporting!

 

[AB0915]

MCW, Vanderbilt and GT "superscore" (I believe).
No matter what most of them say, it's really hard to know how individual examiners is going to evaluate multiple scores. The are all visible and open to idiosyncratic interpretation.

Sorry about the post in two different forums, didn’t realize that was a problem.

 

[KnightDoc]

Probably not. That data is pulled from the applicant and matriculant scores are reported on the primary application to the school, which means it is the last MCAT taken for the AMCAS ID associated with the applicant/matriculant. There is no mechanism for a school to report a different calculation of that data back to AMCAS which is where the MSAR data is pulled. While schools have editing access to their page for MSAR, the data all comes back from the end of cycle reports (on interviews, etc) and the primary application

That's interesting. Is there a reason then that AMCAS wouldn't push the average of all the scores to MSAR, since that's AAMC's recommendation of how scores should be used, assuming schools aren't actually reporting their data back to MSAR (which is in itself a little surprising, since so much of what is in MSAR does indeed seem to be controlled by the school)? Also, this would mean the metric a school like Vandy is using is actually higher than what is published in MSAR. Weird!

 

[gyngyn]

That's interesting. Is there a reason then that AMCAS wouldn't push the average of all the scores to MSAR, since that's AAMC's recommendation of how scores should be used, assuming schools aren't actually reporting their data back to MSAR (which is in itself a little surprising, since so much of what is in MSAR does indeed seem to be controlled by the school)? Also, this would mean the metric a school like Vandy is using is actually higher than what is published in MSAR. Weird!

We don't report data to the AAMC they lift it directly from their own central account. That said, they have made errors in the past. To their credit, they quickly correct it when their error is pointed out.