That way, when your MCAT scores arrive in October your application will be instantly complete. I took the MCAT in 1993. Check with the schools to which you are applying. Some, like the University of Miami, won t accept scores that are more than three years old. But the best thing to do is check with each school.
All parts are important for admissions committees.
They look particularly carefully at the Verbal Reasoning score because that s something that s not taught in medical school and medical school involves tons of reading and fast comprehension. The admissions committee looks at your score on the Writing Sample only as a tertiary or quaternary factor in the admissions decision. I ve taken the MCAT three times. We database each score for each subtest, but use only the highest composite set of scores for admissions purposes. I retook the MCAT and my scores went down.