MedSchoolCoach MCAT Review

The MedSchoolCoach YouTube channel is worth an afternoon if you want free MCAT mnemonics, and it is worth nothing at all as a content review library. We counted every MCAT video on it this week: 42 of them, across three playlists, 1 hour 19 minutes of runtime in total, and not a single one about CARS.

That is the whole MCAT offering. The channel itself is much bigger, at 28.6K subscribers and about 1,400 videos, but the rest of it is medical school admissions, interviews, USMLE and pre-med advice.

Summary Table

The MedSchoolCoach channel on youtube.com, captured September 2026. The first row of playlists sets the tone: admissions, not MCAT content.

MedSchoolCoach MCAT YouTube Overview

MedSchoolCoach is a tutoring and admissions consulting company, and the channel is the marketing arm of that company. Its own description says it guides students "from taking the MCAT to applying to residency and everything in between", and lists five services: pre-med advising, medical school admissions consulting, MCAT tutoring, USMLE tutoring and residency match consulting. Four of those five have nothing to do with sitting the MCAT.

The MCAT material lives in three playlists on the channel's playlists tab:

• MCAT Mnemonic Monday, 25 numbered lessons, 52 minutes 12 seconds in total, uploads six and seven years old
• MCAT Flashcards, 15 videos, 22 minutes 37 seconds, all six years old
• MCAT Concepts in Real Life, 2 videos, 4 minutes, four years old

The other 26 playlists hold 412 videos between them, and they are the Pre-Med Experience conference recordings, a research roadmap, a med school interview series, USMLE Question of the Week, day in the life vlogs and commercials. The MCAT is 42 of the 454 videos the channel's playlists contain, or 9.3 percent.

What you will not find anywhere: practice questions, passages, full length exams, progress tracking, a study plan you can follow, or any content posted since the exam's current form settled in.

MedSchoolCoach MCAT YouTube Review For 2026

The count, by section

Every one of the 42 videos maps to a single MCAT section from its title, so the coverage is easy to check. The result is lopsided and it has a hole in it.

All 42 MCAT videos on the MedSchoolCoach channel, counted from its three MCAT playlists, September 2026.

Chem/Phys takes 23 videos and 42 minutes 15 seconds, which is 55 percent of the library. Bio/Biochem takes 14 videos and 26 minutes 46 seconds. Psych/Soc gets five videos and 9 minutes 48 seconds: sleep stages, Piaget, Freud, the fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias. The AAMC builds the Psych/Soc section from 59 questions in 95 minutes, with introductory psychology at 65 percent and introductory sociology at 30 percent of the content. Ten minutes of video against 95 minutes of exam is a rounding error.

CARS gets nothing. Not a strategy video, not a passage walkthrough, not a timing tip. The AAMC scores CARS with 53 questions in 90 minutes, all of them passage-based, on passages of 500 to 600 words split evenly between humanities and social sciences. A quarter of your MCAT score comes from a section this channel has never made a video about. If CARS is your weak section, structured passage work such as Jack Westin CARS practice is the tool, and no free channel substitutes for it.

Where the "200 plus lessons" figure actually comes from

Search for this channel and you will find it described as 200 plus bite-sized MCAT lessons covering every section. That number is real, but it is not this channel. MedSchoolCoach's own MCAT tutoring page lists, inside every tutoring package, "Access to our MCAT Prep App, containing 200+ videos & lecture notes, 1000+ flashcards and questions for MCAT practice ($130 value)". The 200 plus videos are in the paid app. The free channel has 42.

The same page prices the packages the app is bundled into: Bronze at $2,200 for 10 hours of one-on-one tutoring, Silver at $4,800 for 25 hours, Gold at $7,600 for 45 hours and Platinum at $9,000 for 60 hours. Each package also carries three MedSchoolCoach full length exams ($110 value), the MCAT Go audio course ($600 value), the CARS Mastery course ($399 value) and a guaranteed score increase, described as "we will work again with you for free". Our MedSchoolCoach MCAT tutoring review covers whether those hours are worth the price. The point here is narrower: none of it is on YouTube.

There is a second misdirection worth knowing about. The free MCAT science course people go looking for is the MCAT Basics Podcast, 144 episodes of it, and it is not on this channel. It sits on @ProspectiveDoctor, a separate channel with 1.36K subscribers and 507 videos that links to medschoolcoach.com from its own page. That playlist was last updated in August 2023. If you searched for MedSchoolCoach on YouTube and landed on the channel this review covers, you landed on the wrong one.

The mnemonics are genuinely good, and genuinely old

Judged as what it is rather than what it is described as, Mnemonic Monday holds up. The videos average 1 minute 53 seconds, they open with the thing to memorise and they close with the memory device, and the numbering makes the 25 of them behave like a short course. Glycolysis intermediates has 61,000 views and Krebs cycle intermediates has 57,000, which is what a useful free video looks like. The Flashcards playlist is the same idea in even shorter form, one term per video, 1 minute 5 seconds at the shortest.

The problem is what a memory aid cannot do. These videos hand you a phrase for a list. They do not explain why the list is the way it is, they attach no practice, and the MCAT asks you to apply the concept inside a passage rather than recite it. For the underlying explanation you want a library with actual depth, and AK Lectures is the free one. To find out whether any of it stuck, you need questions, which means a question bank rather than a video.

Then there is the age. Nothing in the three playlists is under four years old and 40 of the 42 are six or seven years old. Mnemonics for amino acids and Krebs intermediates do not expire, so that matters less than it would for a strategy channel. It matters more than nothing, because the exam has been through a full cycle of content outline updates since these were filmed, and because a channel that has not touched its MCAT playlists in four years is not going to fill the CARS gap now.

The channel is not dormant overall, but it has moved on. Of its 30 newest uploads, the freshest is five months old and the rest are about a year old. Four of the 30 mention the MCAT, and three of those four are hour long webinar recordings rather than lessons. The most watched of the 30, at 52,000 views, is about medical school interview questions. That is the channel MedSchoolCoach is making now.

Pricing

Every video on the channel is free. No account, no trial, no gated upload, no upsell wall in front of a playlist. For the 42 MCAT videos the price is zero and there is nothing to compare against.

What costs money is everything the channel points at. The MCAT Prep App with its 200 plus videos is carried inside the tutoring packages at a stated $130 value, and tutoring itself starts at $2,200 for ten hours. MCAT Go, which MedSchoolCoach describes as "a complete MCAT science course in your favorite podcast apps", is listed at a $600 value, and CARS Mastery at $399. Those prices were read on the tutoring page linked above on September 29, 2026.

So the honest way to describe the economics: the channel is free advertising for a premium tutoring business, and it is priced accordingly. You are getting 1 hour 19 minutes of teaching, which is a fair trade for nothing, and a steady invitation to spend four figures, which is the actual product.

Who MedSchoolCoach MCAT YouTube Is Best For

This channel suits a student who already has a content plan and wants a memory aid for the lists that will not stick. Krebs intermediates, glycolysis intermediates, periodic trends, strong acids, the electromagnetic spectrum, stop codons: if those are the items you keep losing, 25 short videos will help and will cost you under an hour.

It also suits a pre-med who is further from the exam than they think. The admissions, interview and application material on this channel is current, well produced and the thing MedSchoolCoach is actually good at. If your real question is how to get in rather than how to score, you are on the right channel and the wrong review.

It is a poor fit for anyone treating it as a study resource. There is no CARS, almost no Psych/Soc, no practice of any kind, and 1 hour 19 minutes of content. If you are building a schedule around free video, our MCAT study schedule guide sets how many hours the exam actually takes, and this channel fills about one of them.

When You Might Look Elsewhere

For a free library that covers the exam rather than decorating it, Khan Academy MCAT is the answer, with 1,124 videos built around the AAMC content outline and real Psych/Soc coverage. For deeper science explanation, AK Lectures goes further into mechanism than any mnemonic can. If your losses are arithmetic rather than recall, Leah4Sci has the best free treatment of calculator-free MCAT math anywhere.

None of those three covers CARS properly either, which is the standing limitation of free video on this exam. The rest of the free options are compared on our MCAT YouTube channels list, and the way we score every resource is set out in our review methodology.

Final Verdict

MedSchoolCoach MCAT YouTube earns 2.8 out of 5. The mnemonics are good, short and free, and the admissions content around them is the best thing on the channel. The score is low because of the gap between what this resource is described as and what it is: 42 videos, 1 hour 19 minutes, no CARS, five Psych/Soc videos, and nothing uploaded to an MCAT playlist in four years.

MedSchoolCoach MCAT YouTube FAQs

Does MedSchoolCoach have 200 videos on YouTube?

No. The channel has about 1,400 videos in total, but only 42 of them teach MCAT content, spread across three playlists. The 200 plus figure comes from MedSchoolCoach's paid MCAT Prep App, which the company lists at a $130 value inside its tutoring packages. The free channel and the paid app are different products.

Does the MedSchoolCoach YouTube channel cover CARS?

No. There is no CARS video in any of the channel's 29 playlists: no strategy, no passage walkthrough, no timing advice. The AAMC scores CARS with 53 passage-based questions in 90 minutes, a quarter of your total, so this is the single biggest gap on the channel. MedSchoolCoach sells a separate paid CARS Mastery course, which is not on YouTube.

Is MedSchoolCoach MCAT YouTube free?

Yes, completely. All 42 MCAT videos play without an account, a trial or a paywall, as does the rest of the channel. The channel exists to advertise MedSchoolCoach's paid tutoring, which starts at $2,200 for ten hours, but nothing on YouTube is gated behind that.

Where is the MedSchoolCoach MCAT Basics podcast on YouTube?

On a different channel. The 144 episode MCAT Basics Podcast playlist lives on @ProspectiveDoctor, which has 1.36K subscribers and links to medschoolcoach.com, not on the main MedSchoolCoach channel. That playlist was last updated in August 2023. Searching YouTube for the brand name will usually land you on the main channel instead.

Is MedSchoolCoach enough to prepare for the MCAT?

Not close. One hour and nineteen minutes of mnemonics, with no CARS, five Psych/Soc videos, no practice questions and no full length exams, covers a sliver of what the exam asks. Treat it as a memory aid alongside a full content library and a question bank, and use official AAMC practice material to check where you actually stand.

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