Where do I stand with my stats?

[starfox]

GPA: 4.0 (major is Biology and Economics)
MCAT: 28T (12 PS, 6 VR, 10 BS)
100 hours shadowing
300 hours volunteering in hospitals
ECs are good in general, but I'm more concerned with an opinion on the other #s.

Verbal was unexpected, I was scoring so much higher on practice exams, like 9-10s (English is also my first language.....). But honestly what will an adcom think looking at me? I got a perfect on the writing, I don't consider myself bad at reading or writing, but is that something they use to think that you lack critical thinking, or they're just less likely to accept you b/c they don't want to bring down their MCAT average verbal score for their accepted class?

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[Xivilus1231]

With your GPA and clinical exposure, the admissions committee would be downright jerks for rejecting you. But I would expect an egging during your interview regarding your MCAT verbal score.

Nice work.

 

[plumhill]

Numbers-wise, everything is fine but your MCAT...this suggests to adcoms that you might have gone to a college or university known for extreme grade inflation but don't have the mental ability to back up your GPA, considering you were outscored by a number of your fellow applicants. The humongous difference between your writing score and your VS score is going to raise a red flag. Its up to you whether or not you want to re-take...to me personally, a 32R looks better than a 28T. But even with that score you'll probably at least get a few invites, depending on what your ECs actually are.

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

Retake MCAT honestly. 6 VR is really low.

 

[Catalystik]

Every MD school does not look at the subscores, but even so, your chances at one of those few is iffy considering your overall MCAT score is 3 points below that of the average acceptee to allopathic schools, unless your home state has a liberal public MD program. Otherwise, you are still a candidate for some DO med schools.