MCAT Scores for Medical Students by Gender

The chart above is based on average MCAT scores by gender for students admitted to U.S. medical schools in each year between 2002 and 2009 (data here).  Men consistently have higher MCAT scores (30.975 average score for the 2002-2009 period) than women (29.5375 points) by an annual average of 1.4375 points for this period.  In the most recent year of 2009, men scored higher on average by 1.50 points (31.6 men vs. 30.1 women), which is a statistically significant difference with a t-statistic of 25.08 from a "difference of means test" (prob = 0.0000).