<p>First, you have to remember that medical schools do not take the higher MCAT score. All of them are considered. While it’s surely better to take a second examination, bear in mind that that 8 does not get erased.</p>
<p>Second, reapplying is a negative sign for a few reasons. In your son’s particular case, many schools will wonder why he did not apply to them the first time – Did he think he was too good for us? It also raises their suspicions that there is something wrong with his application, which there is.</p>
<p>Third, prestige matters only in a very few handfuls of situations. Academic medicine is one of them, but relatively few doctors are in academic medicine.</p>
<p>Know of a similar case here…MD has 4 kids…2 are already in med school. They’re going to the instate med school to save money…which isn’t much “savings” ha ha…when you have 2 in med school at the same time.</p>
<p>Remember, WOWmom, they can find their own grad school with loans, then you can see what your finances look like at graduation and determine how much to help.</p>
<p>Not planning on paying for all of it. (I’d like to have some money left to support myself in my dotage!)</p>
<p>But I said I would help where I could. </p>
<p>I almost wish both kiddos would opt for grad school instead of medical school. Both are in fields where the schools would <em>pay</em> them to go.</p>
<p>" Yes, we are non English speaking family but thats not the reason for his low V score. He started his school from grade 2 elementary here. His SAT reading was 710."</p>
<p>A 710 in Reading on the SAT is certainly a very strong score but you have to try to understand how difficult the Verbal section of the MCAT is. I do not remember my SAT scores but I do remember I got a 730/800 in Verbal on the GRE and with that in mind I was sure that I would get at least a 12 in Verbal on the MCAT but ended up only getting a 10. In fact, I was probably lucky to get that. It turned out that one of long passages on the version of the MCAT that I took was taken directly from an article in Scientific American magazine that I had previously read.</p>