Take a science class EVERY semester?

norcalguy
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:42:04 +0000

Keep in mind, the MCAT is a test that puts humanities majors at an advantage. It has limited testing of science knowledge while incorporating extensive reading comprehension and analysis over all 3 sections. This clearly favors someone who majored in English. Not surprisingly, English majors do slightly better than bio majors on the test and not surprisingly their acceptance rate is slightly higher (all of that can probably be attributed to the higher MCAT score). So, it’s not really that med schools will give a huge boost to any applicant based on their college major alone. I think way too big a deal is made out of this. Major in bio if that’s what you want. Supplement your bio major with some English courses if you don’t want to get too rusty with reading comprehension.