how do you know which medical schools average MCAT scores or which take highest?

[603222]

not all schools look like they explicitly say it on their website???

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[drziggy]

not all schools look like they explicitly say it on their website???

There have been other threads about this. Do a quick search.

 

[minerva3121]

not all schools look like they explicitly say it on their website???

If it's not on their website, you have to call the school and ask. Or you can check out old threads from SDN.

Here is a list from 2004 http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=119179:

Albany: the best set of scores
Baylor: most recent scores weighed heavily
Boston: the best set of scores
Case: most recent set of scores
Columbia: most recent scores weighed most heavily
Cornell: the best score
Creighton: the best set of scores
Drexel: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
Duke: the most recent set of scores generally considered
E. Carolina: the most recent set of scores generally considered
EVMS: the best set of scores weighed most heavily
Emory: the best set of scores typically weighed most heavily
Finch: the most recent set of scores
George Washington: all sets of scores
Georgetown: all sets of scores
Indiana: the most recent scores
Jefferson: the most recent score
Loma Linda: all sets of scores
Louisiana at New Orleans: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
Louisiana at Shreveport: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
Loyola: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
Marshall: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
Medical College of Ohio: the best set of scores weighed most heavily
Medical College of Wisconsin: the best score in each section from last 2 tests
South Carolina: the best set of scores
Meharry: all sets of scores
MSU: the most recent set of scores
Morehouse: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
NYMC: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
NYU: the best set of scores
NEOUCOM: the most recent set of scores
PSU: all sets of scores
Rush: the most recent set of scores weighed heavily
St. Louis: the best set of scores
Southern Illinois: the most recent set of scores
Stanford: the most recent set of scores
Stony Brook: the best set of scores
Downstate: each scores looked at individually from all tests
Texas A&M: the most recent set of scores
Texas Tech: the most recent set of scores weighed most heavily
Tufts: the best scores
Tulane: the best set of scores
NJMS: all sets of scores
RWJ: all sets of scores with heavy consideration on the most recent scores
USUHS: the best set of scores
Buffalo: the best set of scores
Arizona: the best scores
UC Davis: the best scores
UC Irvine: the most recent set of scores
UCSF: the most recent scores
Colorado: the best scores
U Florida: the best set of scores considered heavily
Hawaii: the most recent set of scores
Iowa: all sets of scores
Kansas: the two most recent sets of scores
Kentucky: the most recent set of scores weighed heavily
U Louisville: the most recent set of scores
U Maryland: the best scores
U Mass: the best scores weighed heavily
U Miami: the best set of scores weighed heavily
Minnesota at Minneapolis: the highest set of scores
U Missouri at Columbia: the highest total set of scores
U Nevada: the most recent scores
U North Dakota: the most recent set of scores
U Oklahoma: the most recent set of scores
Rochester: the best set of scores
South Alabama: the most recent scores
South Carolina: the most recent set of scores weighed heavily
South Dakota: the most recent set of scores compared to other scores
South Florida: the best set of scores weighed heavily
U Tennessee at Memphis: all sets of scores
San Antonio: the best set of scores weighed heavily
Galveston: the most recent set of scores
Southwestern: the best set of scores
U Vermont: all sets of scores
U Virginia: the best scores
U Wisconsin: the higher scores from the two most recent scores
Vanderbilt: the most recent set of scores weighed heavily
VCU: the best set of scores
Wayne State: the most recent set of scores weighed heavily
West Virginia: all scores
Wright State: all scores
Yale: the best set of scores
Yeshiva: the best set of scores

FattySlug initiated a new list here (still in progress) http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=825220:

UC Davis: Most recent.
USC: All scores (not sure if the woman was only giving a safe answer. She sounded uncertain.)
U of Miami: All scores but the the highest one will be given more weight.
GWU: Most recent score (from website.)
Drexel: Most recent (website)
Hofstra: highest score (website)
Georgetown: most recent (website)
UW Seattle: most recent (website)
Tufts: "Our policy is to consider the two most recent sets of scores and note the higher MCAT total of the two sets." (website)