<p>There are college students applying to medical school with a very high GPA and relatively low MCAT scores. There are some with very high MCAT scores and relatively low GPA's. Did these same students graduate high school with a similar pattern between grades and scores? high GPA and "lower than the GPA would suggest " SAT/ACT ? Lower GPA and skyhigh SAT?</p>
<p>Or do great test-takers stay great test-takers and great classroom grade-makers stay great grade-makers?</p>
<p>My D let me post this on another forum. I am interested in the responses from those who have taken the MCAT. Would it be that surprising to someone who struggled with the SAT and ACT that they would also struggle with the MCAT?</p>
<p>High school GPA: 3.5(private prep school), SAT 1450
College GPA: 3.2, overall(BCPM 3.5); MCAT 35;</p>
<p>so, in my case, better test taker then stellar student, but standardized test scores held true.</p>
<p>Hm. My HS and college GPAs were identical down to one-thousandth of a point (frightening, actually), and my MCAT score was <0.15 percentile points better than my SAT score.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT</a></p>
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<p>Actually I think correlations that close are not normal. I suspect that most students will see a drop in grades and standardized test percentiles as they move into more competitive pools, as HG did above.</p>
<p>But still, that is 2/2. Isn't it? Wonder if it will hold. bdm, your point about the ever deeper pool is a good one and needs to be expected. I don't think I'm looking for differences in %tiles's as much as differences in "bands" or just "Walks On Water", great, good, average, below average, poor, potted plant".</p>
<p>HG went to a "grade deflating" UG . A high GPA ain't what they are known for is it, Hubbell?</p>
<p>My high school and college GPA were within 0.05 of each other. MCAT and SAT scores were practically the same percentile.</p>
<p>That's not very surprising though as CC is a self-selected group that includes high achievers in both HS and college.</p>
<p>HS grades and test scores as a trend held true through college and the MCAT.</p>
<p>Medical school is a little bit more difficult to tell. My grades have been very mediocre and I got a very average score on Step 1...though it is higher than what my medical school would have predicted based on my grades during the first two years. They don't specifically tell you that they think you'll score a certain score, but they give out the data from the previous years along with a linear regression showing the correlation.</p>
<p>Well, I would have thought any given kid should excel less among SAT-takers than among MCAT-takers.</p>
<p>Evidently not.</p>
<p>I answered on the other forum...</p>
<p>my gpa in college is 0.61 higher than my high school gpa</p>