<p>I was told that VR is the most important part of the MCATs. Is that true? I was also told that some med schools like Georgetown only look at that section. Can anyone confirm this? This comes from my neighbor who applied to 50 med schools and got rejected by all of them. Well he got interviews for a couple but still wasn't accepted. He got a 28 on his MCATs and he said that he was in the 96% tile for VR. So maybe it isn't true. He was average for the other sections he said.</p>
<p>VR is supposed to correlate most strongly with Step 1 scores (at least that’s what I was told as a Kaplan teacher) but don’t let anyone, especially someone rejected by 50 med schools, tell you the rest of the test doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>The verbal is section is important and a low verbal (V <8) will usually keep one out of med school even if all the overall MCAT score is high. (Tons of reading in meds school!) But the V score is NOT the only section that medical schools look at.</p>
<p>Med school want to see a fairly balanced score across all sections.</p>
<p>Here’ s the scaled score distributions for the MCAT</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85332/data/combined08.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85332/data/combined08.pdf</a></p>
<p>Your friend scored around 11-12 on his MCAT verbal, and assuming a fairly even split between the remaining sections, got 8-9 in BS and PS. Not great but not something that would automatically DQ him from med school.</p>
<p>A 28 was probably high enough to get him thru the initial score screenings at a few places.</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m thinking he may have had a 7 on a section. Only a couple II’s out of 50 apps is the clue here. Any sub-score that low is a really good reason for a re-take since those sections are easier to improve. If I’m right, he wasted a lot of money on apps.</p>
<p>Oh okay. I wanna be brown, this is off topic but why are you named that? Do you wish to be Latino or something hahahaa.</p>
<p>^Take a look at their posting history and you’ll see that it likely refers to the college, not skin color.</p>
<p>Thats what I was thinking lol</p>
<p>It’s a play on words. When I made the account I was a senior in high school jaded and angered by the college admissions process and on Brown’s waiting list. I wanna be brown refers both to the school and affirmative action.</p>
<p>In answer to your bolded question, the answer is, ‘No’.</p>
<p>I do not know about low VR, I know that 28 is very low. On the other hand, how you can prepare for VR? This one is not worthwhile spend much time, you read the way you read. Not sure how VR that you cannot really prepare for will correlate to Step 1, which you absolutely have to prepare, but I have no experience with it yet, have to see what happens next spring.</p>
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<p>MiamiDAP. Have you ever actually taken the MCAT. It’s so nice of you to judge people by their MCAT scores. “I know that 28 is very low”. No isn’t buddy, the MCAT is extremely difficult and a 28 is above average. So no “a 28 is not very low”. You sound like one of those adcoms I strongly dislike, judging people not by their character but by their score.</p>
<p>And yes, buddy you can study for the VR. MCAT style questions are very specific. Even poor readers that learn to think MCAT style can master this section. There are things you need to learn to look out for, and one you do the questions become manageable. It’s not the text but the questions that are the difficult part.</p>
<p>Having said that OP, a 28 will get you rejected from every MD school (except the very bottom schools). DO is very possible with this score.</p>
<p>Adcoms have no mercy in admissions. You need to score 30/31+ or say bye bye to your application no matter what else is on there. Good luck.</p>
<p>how can you criticize WOWMom for saying a 28 is low while in the same post say that it will get you rejected from every MD school? She never said anything about the OPs worth or character, only you are implying any connection there.</p>
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<p>I highly doubt this. I know people who got in the high 20s and go to very well known M.D schools.</p>
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<p>That’s like saying an 1100 (out of 1600) on the SAT is good because it’s above the average score. Comparing yourself to the lazy masses is not going to get you in.</p>
<p>And if you have an X factor, are URM, etc. you can get in with a score in the 20s.</p>
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<p>What schools are we talking about? Maybe for the Ivies, John Hopkins, etc but I don’t believe that one HAS to get into the 30s for a state med school</p>
<p>^State schools. If you check stats on forum doctor, if you have an X factor/URM, etc., you can even get into multiple schools with a sub 3.0 GPA and a sub-30 MCAT. Being URM in particular is a huge boost for med school admissions.</p>
<p>My school’s average score is 30, so almost by definition we have to have a substantial number of sub-30 MCAT scorers. The idea that 28 is a “very low” score was probably overstated, but it’s absolutely not a deal-breaker as long as you meet the rest of the admissions criteria. I can think of at least ten caucasian classmates who went to state flagship undergrads with sub-30 MCATs who are in MD schools, so this notion that you’ll get rejected everywhere without a 30 is flat out wrong.</p>
<p>^Yeah, if you are in state in Texas, it’s almost like a shoe-in.</p>
<p>awwwww but not in NY right?</p>
<p>Yup, but NYMC, although private, is disrespected by enough New Yorkers that it seems easy to get into. And, 30% of its matriculated students are in-state.</p>