<p>whaat is a good mcat score like equivalent to 1500 on the old SAT in terms of competitiveness</p>
<p>35 i think is a good guage cause its competitive for ivies</p>
<p>A good score for med schools is a 30+ For ivies and better schools 33+</p>
<p>I think they're both giving you low estimates. </p>
<p>If you mean the kind of score that will not only not get you rejected but actually help you (somewhat) to get in, then my rule is look at the schools you want to go to and add three points to their average MCAT score. (For the record, there is no such SAT score at elite colleges, so this is a very different way of thinking about test scores.)</p>
<p>1.) Washington University in St. Louis: 36.6+3 = 39.6
2.) Duke University: 35.7+3 = 38.7
3.) Columbia: 35.4 + 3 = 38.4
4.) Harvard: 35.1+3 = 38.1
...
15.) Stanford: 33.6+3 = 36.3</p>
<p>Wow. Too easy. Isn't the mcat out of 45?</p>
<p>As should be obvious, a 30 is not representative of answering 66% of the questions correctly.</p>
<p>Everything is curved. A 35 is the 95th percentile. A 40 is the 99.8th percentile. A 42 is the highest score in the country most years, if anybody even gets that.</p>
<p>A 1500 on the old SAT is pretty much avg. for the best colleges in the country.
A 35 on the MCAT is pretty much avg. for the best med schools in the country.
In terms of admissions, they're probably equally competitive. A 35 is much harder to achieve than a 1500 though. What that says is that med school admissions is tougher than college admissions, which is obvious. The best med schools have acceptance rates at around 2-5% while the best colleges have acceptance rates at around 10-15%.</p>
<p>!!!! No one has ever gotten a perfect score? This is one heck of a test.</p>
<p>Rumors say that one kid 7 years ago got a 45. Of course, 7 years ago they were on that weird "13-15" point scale, so who really knows.</p>
<p>just out of curiosity...how did you do bdm??</p>
<p>So the kid really only got a 43 :-P haha</p>