What major would best prepare one for the MCAT

WayOutWestMom
Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:34:33 +0000

Forensic pathologist is not necessarily a medical specialty. A good many (perhaps even most) forensic pathologists are actually PhDs not MDs.

The science on the MCAT isn’t especially high level or difficult science. For the most part it’s intro level or just above.

AAMC has a table showing the GPAs and MCAT scores by primary undergrad major here:

https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/2012factstable18.pdf

The groups which scores highest on the MCAT are math majors, followed by physical science (physics and chemistry) majors. In fact except for specialized health science majors (nursing, exercise science, nutrition, etc), every group scores higher on the MCAT than do biological science majors–including humanities and social science majors.