who in the hell would retake with a 41?!

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haha, my friend got 14, 11, 14 last year...needless to say the little bit of unbalanced-ness didn't really hurt him too much 🙂
 
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I've never understood why "unbalanced" is a bad thing. If you score above 9 on every section, just because it's lower or higher than any other section doesn't make any sense.

I see nothing wrong with...

9 14 13 = 36
10 9 13 = 32
13 9 9 = 31

I see something wrong with...
15 15 6 = 36
7 13 13 = 33
10 5 14 = 29
 
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coralfangs said:
omg
this kid's parent was like, "my kid got a 41, it sucks, he's planning to retake in august"

.....
i will simply say: wtf
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im sure this was either a joke or a misunderstanding.....maybe the parent thought he meant 41%
 
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coralfangs said:
omg
this kid's parent was like, "my kid got a 41, it sucks, he's planning to retake in august"

.....
i will simply say: wtf
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Yet another example of parents allowing children to make their own life decisions.
 
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Sometimes parents don't understand what it all means. Example: I told my parents I got a 37 and my mother responded "What does that mean?"
my father responded "out of what?"
I said "out of 45. It means I did well"
My father responded "You couldn't get a 45? or a 44?"
me: "I'm happy. the average at harvard is a 35, and I am applying to plenty of state schools"
father "so its like you just made the cut off?"
me: "It's the 97% percentile"
This was finally enough to convince to them and they realized that it was a good score and I should not retest. 🙄 Sometimes parents just don't know what everything means, especially when said parents are at the stage where they are beginning to forget where they park the car.

If the son said he was unhappy the parents probably assumed there was a reason for it and that 41 is a bad score.
 
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Caristra said:
Sometimes parents don't understand what it all means. Example: I told my parents I got a 37 and my mother responded "What does that mean?"
my father responded "out of what?"
I said "out of 45. It means I did well"
My father responded "You couldn't get a 45? or a 44?"
me: "I'm happy. the average at harvard is a 35, and I am applying to plenty of state schools"
father "so its like you just made the cut off?"
me: "It's the 97% percentile"
This was finally enough to convince to them and they realized that it was a good score and I should not retest. 🙄 Sometimes parents just don't know what everything means, especially when said parents are at the stage where they are beginning to forget where they park the car.

If the son said he was unhappy the parents probably assumed there was a reason for it and that 41 is a bad score.
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:laugh:
 
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go lakers said:
my bio teacher for TPR in san diego got a 41 the first time, and retook and got a 45T
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stop talking about me behind my back! geeez!
 
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TPROrgoTutor said:
Highest score in history has been a 43, sorry. Your teacher is a complete liar. 👎
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Is that a perfect score? Is that possible? Does the bio teacher also go by the nickname of premed-machine?
 
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lynn623la said:
Is that a perfect score? Is that possible? Does the bio teacher also go by the nickname of premed-machine?
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his name's adrian. he quadruple majored in four years at UCSD and is going to UCSF next year. he said "45" and the fact that he lectured the entire biology coursework for TPR without ever using notes or references made me believe he at least got a 41. but if he is lying, he must be lying to everyone he knows because everyone in the PR office knows him as "the 45 guy"
 
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go lakers said:
his name's adrian. he quadruple majored in four years at UCSD and is going to UCSF next year. he said "45" and the fact that he lectured the entire biology coursework for TPR without ever using notes or references made me believe he at least got a 41. but if he is lying, he must be lying to everyone he knows because everyone in the PR office knows him as "the 45 guy"
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What year did he take the MCAT and get a 45? I have read that a 43 is the highest score in the past 2-3 years, but I don't know if it was the highest score ever.

Also if he did score a 43, it is likely people would call him "45 guy" as a joke. Like if you were 6'10 people might call you the 7 foot guy lol.
 
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DoctorPardi said:
What year did he take the MCAT and get a 45? I have read that a 43 is the highest score in the past 2-3 years, but I don't know if it was the highest score ever.

Also if he did score a 43, it is likely people would call him "45 guy" as a joke. Like if you were 6'10 people might call you the 7 foot guy lol.
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true, thats definitely possible. regardless, he was easily the most jaw-dropping pre-med i've ever met. we'd just ask him random questions outside the scope of the MCAT just so we could go 😱
 
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Anastasis said:
Actually my mom is the one on the verge of disowning me because i'm not completeing the secondary at the only DO school I applied to. She's PISSED OFF. She hates MDs (including my dad - lol)
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This just made me laugh out loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's hillarious. 😛
 
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Anastasis said:
Actually my mom is the one on the verge of disowning me because i'm not completeing the secondary at the only DO school I applied to. She's PISSED OFF. She hates MDs (including my dad - lol)
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this does make me chuckle 🙂
 
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To introduce other people to your score so you don't get the "X/45 doesn't sound that good"- first, preface it by saying what percentile you got, then that there were 31,009 people who took it. That should pretty much take care of it.

i.e.
q: how'd you do?
a: i'm really happy. I scored in the top 12% of everyone who took it!
q: really? that's great. so what'd you get?
a: 33.
q: out of?
a: 45, but the average in the country for the 31000+ was only around 25. And as long as it's at least 10-10-10 you have a chance to interview lots of places.
q: ah! you kick ass! good job.
 
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lol...i see you've put a lot of thought into that
 
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DoctorPardi said:
What year did he take the MCAT and get a 45? I have read that a 43 is the highest score in the past 2-3 years, but I don't know if it was the highest score ever.

Also if he did score a 43, it is likely people would call him "45 guy" as a joke. Like if you were 6'10 people might call you the 7 foot guy lol.
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it's possible that he took the exam before the switch in VR from reporting "13-15" to individual subscores for 13, 14, and 15... so that he got a

15PS
15BS
13-15VR

Whether or not that is a "true" 45 is up for debate, and no one has been able to get a "pure" 45 since the change. With good reason.

Z
 
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EddieIndy said:
I think golakers was very fortunate to have Chuck as his teacher...
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adrian.

and he wasnt the best teacher ( 👎 ) because he never used any notes/references. so, for example, when he drew the menstrual cycle, he had a large FSH spike. and we had our books open and corrected him by saying it was actually LH that spikes. i think his score got to his head because he would rarely admit when he was wrong.
 
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Golfing_Doc said:
To introduce other people to your score so you don't get the "X/45 doesn't sound that good"- first, preface it by saying what percentile you got, then that there were 31,009 people who took it. That should pretty much take care of it.

i.e.
q: how'd you do?
a: i'm really happy. I scored in the top 12% of everyone who took it!
q: really? that's great. so what'd you get?
a: 33.
q: out of?
a: 45, but the average in the country for the 31000+ was only around 25. And as long as it's at least 10-10-10 you have a chance to interview lots of places.
q: ah! you kick ass! good job.
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Dude, where were you with the helpful advice when I had to go through that with my parents? :laugh:

It's a good post though, anyone who hasn't told someone yet, I second this advice 👍
 
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I usually just say: "Got a 39, top 1%" - even though its actually top 1.3%....... Anybody deliberately leaving out their writing score like me? (got an O).
 
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durfen said:
I usually just say: "Got a 39, top 1%" - even though its actually top 1.3%....... Anybody deliberately leaving out their writing score like me? (got an O).
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Trying to explain the numbers to most people (including parents) is more than challenge enough for me. I think it would take longer trying to explain to a single person the logic behind a J to T secondary scale than AAMC took to create it. Or more time than any admission comittee will spend caring about our writing scores.
 
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I've just been saying percentages because unless the person is somehow related to medicine or a medical schools (and even sometimes when they are) they're not going to know what the straight score means.
 
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