question about SAT scores in Med School Application

[aladd1n]

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I was wondering if medical schools ever ask for SAT scores on the med school applications. If not, is there an optional space to include these scores?

I ask because I've always scored reasonably well on standardized tests but my MCAT is mediocre. I'm hoping that my SAT scores will somewhat compensate for a lower MCAT score, however little that may be.

Thanks!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Some will ask for SAT scores, but they rarely, if ever, make any sort of difference. Your SAT score will NOT compensate in any way for a sub-par MCAT score.

 

[Irish Football]

I've never seen it asked on a secondary, but I have heard of schools asking about SAT scores in an interview.

 

[sbuxaddict]

The Penn State secondary asked, but they said it was optional.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

I was wondering if medical schools ever ask for SAT scores on the med school applications. If not, is there an optional space to include these scores?

I ask because I've always scored reasonably well on standardized tests but my MCAT is mediocre. I'm hoping that my SAT scores will somewhat compensate for a lower MCAT score, however little that may be.

Thanks!

It doesn't matter at all. Just like nobody cares about your MCAT score once you're attending medical school nobody cares about your SAT score after college. I don't even know why anyone would ask it on a secondary or how it anyone managed to sneak the question into an interview.

 

[shawn829]

I think they use it for statistical purposes ie. MCAT SAT correlation...thats what the admissions staff at jefferson told me

 

[An MD Hopeful]

Wash U's secondary asked for MCAT score, ACT score if you had one, and rank in high school class if known. Since they're already known as the stat-***** school, I'm going to assume that those scores may play some importance...I'm sure they get tons of applicants with great MCAT scores and GPA's so maybe they use high school performance to differentiate between those applicants?

 

[theseeker4]

I was wondering if medical schools ever ask for SAT scores on the med school applications. If not, is there an optional space to include these scores?

I ask because I've always scored reasonably well on standardized tests but my MCAT is mediocre. I'm hoping that my SAT scores will somewhat compensate for a lower MCAT score, however little that may be.

Thanks!

Sorry, they won't care at all that you had an impressive SAT. Your MCAT matters, no pre-college exam will make up for it.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Wash U's secondary asked for MCAT score, ACT score if you had one, and rank in high school class if known. Since they're already known as the stat-***** school, I'm going to assume that those scores may play some importance...I'm sure they get tons of applicants with great MCAT scores and GPA's so maybe they use high school performance to differentiate between those applicants?

No. Just no.

 

[OCDOCDOCD]

Wash U's secondary asked for MCAT score, ACT score if you had one, and rank in high school class if known. Since they're already known as the stat-***** school, I'm going to assume that those scores may play some importance...I'm sure they get tons of applicants with great MCAT scores and GPA's so maybe they use high school performance to differentiate between those applicants?

Why the **** would any med school care about what you were like in high school? That's the distant past and utterly non-predictive of your performance in medical school. Undergrad performance is a far better indicator since it's much more recent and the difficulty of the classes is much closer to the difficulty of med school than high school classes, and the MCAT is much closer in difficulty to STEP 1 than the SAT/ACT. A med school using applicants' high school careers for admissions purposes would be like a college using applicants' middle school careers for admissions purposes. It's absurd.

What someone else said in this thread is much more reasonable: The schools probably just want to know about high school rank/GPA/SAT/ACT in order to compile internal statistics about the correlation between high school and college performance to hand over to the undergrad admissions office.

 

[collegestud2013]

BS/MD programs will obviously require SAT or ACT scores for admission, and as will several special early decision programs like Mount Sinai's Humanities and Medicine ED program, which uses the Math and CR parts of your SAT in place of your MCAT.