Uneven mcat score with low bio score

[deleted980811]

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Hello everyone!

I just got my mcat score yesterday and I’m very grateful to say I got a 515! I’m a little concerned about the breakdown however as it is a bit uneven and I’m not sure how medical schools take into consideration subscores. My breakdown was 128/128/127/132. I feel like bio is the most important section to do well on and am concerned that I got a 127 and feel like my whole score is just contingent on my good psych score.

Do medical schools care about this and should I be concerned in any way?

I would appreciate any information on this!

 

[kirktumi]

You are fine. Unless you got less than a 125 or 124 in a section, don't worry about it.

 

[KnightDoc]

Hello everyone!

I just got my mcat score yesterday and I’m very grateful to say I got a 515! I’m a little concerned about the breakdown however as it is a bit uneven and I’m not sure how medical schools take into consideration subscores. My breakdown was 128/128/127/132. I feel like bio is the most important section to do well on and am concerned that I got a 127 and feel like my whole score is just contingent on my good psych score.

Do medical schools care about this and should I be concerned in any way?

I would appreciate any information on this!

You are honestly looking at it the wrong way -- your outlier is the 132, not the 127!!! Your score is fine, and as stated above, nobody has a subsection cutoff higher than 125 or 126.

Your whole score isn't contingent on the 132, but it's true that you'd have a 511 if you didn't kill psych. That said, you DID kill psych, and nobody is going to hold that against you or dock you the 4 points because it's an outlier. The same way schools don't ignore a 122 when the other subsections are 130, they are not going to ignore your 132. But it's ridiculous to be worried about the 127 when 2 of the other 3 sections were 128. You're FINE. You have a 515 with nothing below 127.

 

[Goro]

Hello everyone!

I just got my mcat score yesterday and I’m very grateful to say I got a 515! I’m a little concerned about the breakdown however as it is a bit uneven and I’m not sure how medical schools take into consideration subscores. My breakdown was 128/128/127/132. I feel like bio is the most important section to do well on and am concerned that I got a 127 and feel like my whole score is just contingent on my good psych score.

Do medical schools care about this and should I be concerned in any way?

On what planet is this a bad thing?????

Chill

 

[mk34]

I got the same exact score except a 129 on CP. I'm currently an M1 at a good school. You're fine! I was worried too for the same reasons but this never came up in any interviews and it clearly didn't hurt me.

 

[deleted980811]

Thanks everyone! Just wasn’t sure about the role that the subscores played in admission decisions. Definitely feel a bit more at ease.