The School of Medicine announced in June that applicants would no longer be required to submit a Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) score during the 2020-21 admissions cycle. While submitted ...

The Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT, is one of the most difficult and stressful exams that a medical school applicant has to take, and the score can have a significant influence on acceptance ...

Taking the MCAT is a hurdle that U.S. medical school hopefuls must clear, and deciding whether to retake the exam after an unsatisfactory first effort should involve several considerations, experts ...

MCAT: The mere mention of that acronym induces stress for many students considering medical school. It’s a draining exam, over six hours long, taken by more than 85,000 students a year, that requires ...

Ghassan S. Gammoh ’14 has taken Life Sciences 1a and 1b, Mathematics 1a and 1b, Statistics 104, Life Sciences 2, Physical Sciences 1, 2, and 3, a summer school class on organic chemistry, and a ...

A panel representing the American Bar Association (ABA) recently voted to eliminate the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) as an admissions requirement for law schools. The main reason for doing this: ...

When applying to medical school, the MCAT is often one of the most daunting components. In recent admissions cycles, the average MCAT score of applicants has been around 506 with matriculants scoring ...

More than 88,000 people took the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT for short) at least once in 2020. Almost all medical schools in the U.S. require students to submit exam scores from this ...

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the full name of the group that administers the MCAT. It is the Association of American Medical Colleges . The story also misstated the title of ...

Although strong academic credentials are important in the admissions process, equally as important are interpersonal skills, exposure to medicine, well-roundedness and qualities such as ...