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Posted by MinnowSummer <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/Anesthesia/info/user=MinnowSummer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 3, 2016, 1:34 pm

Hi! Would it be better to take the gre or mcat? I was looking at scores that schools wanted for the mcat, and it was 500/528! That's higher than some medical schools! But the GRE was a 55 percent in each subject! I'm going to be a junior soon, and I'm planning on taking the test in January.

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Posted by AA2102 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/Anesthesia/info/user=AA2102' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 3, 2016, 4:05 pm, in reply to "GRE or MCAT"

You might need to ask yourself how much effort you've applied to your science classes since starting college, and how well you think you've retained that information. It'd be almost impossible to study and do well on the MCAT if you don't already know the sciences on an advanced level...Of the schools that accept both GRE and MCAT, I don't think they have a preference.

There isn't a cutoff at 55th percentile for the GRE to get an interview. It's just saying that to be a competitive candidate, you should make at least 55th percentile in each subject - with the math score being the most important.

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Posted by MinnowSummer <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/Anesthesia/info/user=MinnowSummer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 3, 2016, 5:13 pm, in reply to "Re: GRE or MCAT"

But it just seems a bit... low for the GRE. I was at the 70th percentile when I tried a practice GRE exam without practice, but I know that it'll take me lots of time and lots of studying to get an MCAT score that high. My GPA is a bit on the low side because of family deaths during finals as well as starting off in engineering and almost bombing those classes. I'll have to retake OCHEM in order to do well, but my GPA is around a 3.3 right now.

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Posted by AA2102 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/Anesthesia/info/user=AA2102' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 3, 2016, 5:51 pm, in reply to "Re: GRE or MCAT"

I think we're having a disconnect between percent and percentile. You can't receive a percentile from a practice test. Percentile is a ranking among other students that take the same test. If you answer 70% of the GRE questions correctly, that may only put you in the top 50th percentile.

If I misunderstood you, my apologies. To be a strong candidate for acceptance, shoot for greater than 75th percentile on the math portion. So you'd probably need to get 92% of your math questions right to fall into the 75th percentile.

Schedule a GRE for this weekend and take it. And report back here your score.

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Oh, we did have that disconnect! I thought it meant percent, but percentile is different. I think for either test, I have studying to do.

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