For the MCAT exam, which courses are the MOST important, which will be most helpful?

Question

I don't have TIME to take ALL the recomended courses for the mcat. Having to choose, which courses should I choose?
* I'VE Already Taken:
Basic Chem, Basic Biology, Physics, Organic Chem, Genetics.
--I can ONLY take 3 more courses!--
* Between: microBiol, Inmunology, Anatomy, Fisiology, Molecular Biol. which should I take?? Thnks a lot!

Answer 1

ENGLISH.

Not joking. The verbal section on the MCAT is brutal. As it is, your typing skills have already demonstrated that you've gotten accustomed to lax verbal standards. The MCAT verbal requires attention to detail and critical understanding. It requires you to be able to work fast without compromising quality of your work. The essays you will have to read are likely to be dense and barely comprehesible in their content. From that, you will have to sort through the muck and mire to make sense of the messages contained therein.

Separate from the verbal is the essay. I don't know how the essay is structured now because I took the exam on paper, but if you have to type, you'd better get used to typing in standard English with as few mistakes as possible.

Almost all people who take the MCAT are naturally inclined towards science. It is easy for most to do well on those section of the MCAT. It is especially hard to score really high in bio sci because everybody does pretty well on it, and the scores are curved. Conversely, it is easy to get the crap beaten out of you in verbal because it's not what most pre-meds are used to.