What's a Good MCAT Score?

Question: What's a Good MCAT Score?

Answer:

What's a good MCAT score? Funny you should ask. Your MCAT score can range anywhere from a 1 (low) to a 15 (killer) on any of the three multiple-choice sections, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Verbal Reasoning. The Writing Section essays are both scored twice between a 1 (low) and a 6 (high) and averaged. Then, the raw score is converted to an alphabetic scale where a “J” is the lowest and a “T” is the highest. Strange, but true.

Most often, the MCAT score is reported as an average of your three multiple-choice scores with the writing letter behind it. Like this: 10M. You'll have to do better than that, though, if you'd like to get into one of the top schools in the country. See the list below for the average MCAT scores of 25 of the country's most illustrious medical schools (arranged alphabetically). As you can see, you'll need to fall somewhere in the 11-12 range for the multiple-choice MCAT score and a P or Q for the writing MCAT score.

What's a Good MCAT Score By School?

1. Baylor: 11.7 Q
2. Brown: 11.7 Q
3. Columbia University: 11.7 Q
4. Cornell: 11.7 Q
5. Dartmouth: 11 Q
6. Duke: 11.7 Q
7. Emory: 11.7 Q
8. Harvard: 11.9 Q
9. Johns Hopkins: 11.8 Q
10. Mayo Medical School: 11 Q
11. New York University: 11.7 Q
12. Ohio State University: 11 Q
13. Stanford: 11.7 Q
14. University of California – Los Angeles: 11.9 Q
15. University of California San Diego: 11.7 Q
16. University of California- San Francisco: 11.9 P
17. University of Chicago: 11.7 Q
18. University of Colorado: 11 Q
19. University of Michigan: 11.7 Q
20. University of Pittsburgh:11.7 Q
21. University of Pennsylvania: 11.7 Q
22. University of Southern California: 11 Q
23. University of Virginia: 11 Q
24. Vanderbilt: 11.7 Q
25. Washington University in St. Louis: 12.5 Q