when do old scores disappear?

[mommy2three]

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my april 2004 scores are still showing on amcas and aacomas. i guess i am just confused since the 2007 application cycle was the last cycle that these scores could be used for and i had been assuming that they would no longer show up this application cycle since they are no longer valid. anyone know anything about when they "phase out"??

 

[NontradICUdoc]

Never. I had 10 year old scores show up.

 

[mommy2three]

Never. I had 10 year old scores show up.

huh....i guess i was wrong in the assumption that they would disappear when they coudl no longer be used for admission.
thanks for your help 🙂

 

[QofQuimica]

huh....i guess i was wrong in the assumption that they would disappear when they coudl no longer be used for admission.
thanks for your help 🙂

Nope. My old scores from 1996 showed up when I applied a decade later. It's worse than a bankruptcy; old MCAT scores NEVER go away. 😉

 

[Creightonite]

So do schools even look at those scores? They say that the the scores should be not more than 2 years old to be considered. I am in similar situation. My first MCAT was taken 5 years ago, so will it be taken into an account when calculating my average MCAT?

 

[sehnsucht]

So do schools even look at those scores? They say that the the scores should be not more than 2 years old to be considered. I am in similar situation. My first MCAT was taken 5 years ago, so will it be taken into an account when calculating my average MCAT?

i dont think the MCAT is averaged at all. the school will take the most recent score and use that in their decision.

 

[DrBowtie]

i dont think the MCAT is averaged at all. the school will take the most recent score and use that in their decision.

It's school dependant. Some take the most recent, some average, some take the best sub scores.

 

[QofQuimica]

So do schools even look at those scores? They say that the the scores should be not more than 2 years old to be considered. I am in similar situation. My first MCAT was taken 5 years ago, so will it be taken into an account when calculating my average MCAT?

Ask the schools to be sure, but I think that really old scores will not be taken into consideration by most of them.