Updated April 12, 2016. These days you may need just a tetanus shot, or a vaccination against tetanus, diptheria and pertussis. Tetanus is a bacterial infection of the nervous system, also known as lockjaw. Symptoms include muscle stiffness, difficulty swallowing, muscle spasms and seizures.
The average MCAT score each year is somewhere around a 24 (8 in each section). A good (competitive at most MD schools) score is around 30 and a stellar score is somewhere above a 34 to 36 (competitive at the top medical schools in the country). A score of 36 or better would put you in the top 2% of the country.
Biological and Biochemical Average MCAT Score. More numbers for your to get all bent out of shape over. For the BBLS expect everyone who applies to have an average MCAT score of 125.6 and SD of 2.8. The ones who get into medical school will have a score of 127.4 and SD of 2.2. This means those in the Biological and Biochemical sections will have a difference of 1.8 points.