<p>Ek’s 101 gets sort of sloppy near the end, try one of the middle tests.</p>
<p>If your boys are really getting -4’s (thats either a 12 or a 13 if I remember), then you got nothing to worry about for verbal at least =).</p>
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<p>Thanks for the note. Will ask them to try test #5 before summer’s end. Doing it on paper w/o strict time limit is much easier. I would guess that the -4’s are really -8’s to -12’s. But, the point is to give them a chance to get familiar with VR so that they can read magazines while looking for possibly embedded VR’s questions as a habit.</p>
<p>Try Wall Street Journal or New York Times.</p>
<p>If an applicant has a high GPA (I’m talking close to, if not a 4.0) would an “average” MCAT score not look as bad on the application with a perfect GPA and significant research experience?</p>
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<p>Are you talking the national average (~24) or the average for applicants (~28) or the average for accepted applicants (~31)? If you have a 4.0, if you apply broadly and have all the EC’s you should be able to get in with a 28 or 31. If you have a 24, it will be an uphill battle even with a 4.0.</p>
<p>Oh, and to link it back to the OP’s question:
I got a 1400 SAT, 33 ACT, and 36 MCAT. MCAT and SAT are different beasts, but to score high on both you need a considerable amount of fluid intelligence. I would say a 36 on the MCAT is a much greater accomplishment than a 1400 on the SAT or 33 on the ACT. Also, when comparing SAT to MCAT, I wouldn’t include the writing section score in comparing the two. Nobody cares about writing on the MCAT (unless you’re canadian).</p>