Warning, this is a rant. I don't understand why they have to have this stupid thing called MCAT Verbal. This is the single thing that has kept me out of med school the past two years. I got a 7 on my first MCAT verbal, then an 8 on my second one. I've been told by three schools that the thing that cost me the most was my verbal score. Believe me, although I'm an engineer, I'm no idiot when it comes to social science and humanities. I speak two foreign languages, wrote for my college newspaper, and generally did well in all my humanities courses. After my first MCAT, I spent a whole year reading and reading and I did all of Princeton Review's verbal passages. I still managed only an 8.
My friend got a 6 on the MCAT verbal six years ago and didn't get into any med school. So he did one of those linkage masters programs, did well, got into their med school and went on to do really well on the boards. It is time for med schools to stop paying much attention to that stupid section called verbal. After all, medicine is about science, character, communication and science.
I'm sorry, wgu. I didn't offer any advices. I'm just frustrated every time I see the word "verbal."