<p>So, i'm new, what is the highest MCAT score you can get? </p>
<p>How is a score of 36 compared to a score on the SAT (in terms of how hard to get)?</p>
<p>Also, what is a very competitive GPA that is reasonable to get in med school? ie. in high school, a very competitive GPA that is reasonable to get is a 4.0. but in college, i know it's almost impossible to get.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>maximum MCAT is 45 (never has been attained yet)
The MCAT seems so hard that you shouldn't even compare to the SAT. Norcalguy said sth like it is easier to get 1400/1600 on the SAT than 30 on the MCAT
the average GPA of those accepted is 3.6, so you should aim higher than that.</p>
<p>Just as a reference, a 36 MCAT is approximately the 96th percentile.</p>
<p>It's hard to compare the MCAT and the SAT because the pool of test takers is entirely different. Everyone and their grandmother takes the SAT's, often with minimal preparation. The students who take the MCAT have already made it through their school's weeding process and are generally exceptional college students (w/ GPA's of 3.4 and above). In addition, students study much much much more for the MCAT than they do for the SAT's. I myself studied 6 hours/day for an entire summer for the MCAT. The only thing I did for the SAT's was take a couple of practice tests. Thus, scoring in the 98th percentile on the MCAT is much more impressive than scoring in the 98th percentile on the SAT.</p>
<p>Here's a post you might be interested in:</p>
<p>I really hate posting stuff from studentdoctor since I don't encourage HS or college freshmen to frequent that site. And I'm sure I don't need to lecture anyone on the fallacies of doing statistical analysis on self-selected samples. </p>
<p>What's interesting is that practically everyone had a 1300+ SAT scores, even the state schoolers who make up the majority of the studentdoctor.net population. It wouldn't surprise me if the average SAT score of the MCAT-taking population was 1300. It's one thing to score in the 99th percentile of a HS population whose average SAT score is 1000. It's another thing to score in the 99th percentile of a population whose average SAT score is 1300.</p>
<p>1.) 45's are attained on occasion, but they happen only once every few years. The same is true of 44's and even 43's. Usually there's a few 42's floating around the country in any given year.</p>
<p>2.) KAT and NCG are exactly right: there's simply no sensible comparison.</p>