Others have asked…but I will ask also. What math courses did you take in HS? What grades have you gotten in those math courses? What science courses have you taken in HS? What grades in those?
ETA…your MCAT score is a piece of the pie in terms of medical school admissions. Additional pieces are the course requirements and the grades you get in those courses…as well as your overall college GPA. You need to aim for as close to all A’s as possible.
What can you do to improve? First…figure out what caused the SAT score to be low? And no, trying “hard enough” usually isn’t the reason. Second, you need to study, study, study. And then study. And you need to then do well in your courses, and on your course exams. As noted, when the time comes, you will need to prep somehow for the MCAT.
And lastly, there are many medical careers that are not doctor. We know because we researched those in this household as well. You may want to at least research options.
But right now…you need to concentrate on your HS completion, and then see what your freshman year course outcomes look like. You may find that working with an academic advisor in college will be helpful as well.
htouray,
You want to set up a goal of certain score and make sure that you consistently getting at least 2 point above it in your paractice tests. This in on average, normal. Some people may be outside of this norm. Some may be more nervous than average and have a greater gap between practice and real test. On the ohter hand there some who actually “get yourself together” much better for the real test, focusing better thru the actual test and as a result will get about the same or even above their practice test. I would say that this is more rare situation. However, while my D’s case was very regular, and she got 2 points below on the real thing, her Verbal score which was the biggest concern actually was the same as highest on her practice test. I wonder if being more concerned with this section actually pushed her to do better.
So, do whatever, but depending on your goal, you can see if you are doing enough or have to put more efforts depending on what score you are getting consistently on your practice tests.
And if you are saying " I want to work much harder.", then why not “work much harder”. Is anything preventing you from it? Then identify your obstacles and remove them. Sometime it is easy and sometime it maybe very hard. Unfortunately, there is no way around it. There is no “meeting in a middle”, no any kind of compromise, it simply has to be done to achieve your goal.