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...While AAMC spokesperson Patty Shay said this week that "we want students to take the exam in best possible circumstances," one could argue that these organizations are not taking all of the elementary precaution to ensure that tomorrow's stress-filled MCAT goes as smoothly as possible for everyone...
Representatives from Tufts and the AAMC said this week that the blackout was a fluke, and should not preclude Tufts from serving as one of this year's nine MCAT sites in Massachusetts (most of them in the Boston area). This sounds perfectly reasonable, but the fact remains that there is no pressing need to administer the test at Tufts when there are eight other MCAT testing sites around the Boston area...
...When AAMC and Tufts officials were asked about their decision to continue the tests a Tufts, each one pointed out that Harvard has repeatedly declined requests to administer the exams. According to John Hackett, the manager for test administration with the MCAT program Office of the Association of American Medical Colleges, "If the Harvard administration would have us on campus, we would be there...
...even without Harvard's facilities, it seems reasonable that AAMC could have found a replacement for Tufts in Boston (yes, the city with more colleges than any other in America). For as Hackett said himself, "They day [last year] was long and disruptive." Why should the AAMC chance it again...
While it is rather upsetting that the AAMC and Tufts--supposedly looking out for the student's best interests--didn't show a little more concern for all of you, it is no reason to worry. Just stay cool and do what you can to get one of the few seats with lots of legroom...