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...number of applications to U.S. medical schools has fallen for the second year in a row, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced last week...
Nationwide, the number of applications to medical schools fell to 41,003 this year from 43,020 in 1997--a decline of almost 5 percent. Last year, the AAMC reported a drop of roughly 8 percent from the record high of 46,968 set in 1996, an AAMC press release said...
While the AAMC has not yet released the figures from this year for individual schools, OCS expects a similar decline...
Officials with the AAMC are uncertain about the cause of the recent downturn, which follows eight consecutive years of increasing medical school applicants...
...AAMC plans to renorm the scores of allaffected students who choose not to retake thetest, allowing their scores to discount the flawedquestions, according to Talada. But he doubted theassociation's remedial measures would helpstudents who were faced with a faulty exam...