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Because medical schools rely heavily on MCAT scores for admissions, performing well on the test is of paramount importance to many premeds, and aspiring medical students often spend months preparing for the exam...
While all students who took the test at a center where faulty tests were administered have the option of retaking the exam, Lofftus said, not every premed affected by the mistake should necessarily take the exam again...
Because of the rolling nature of medical school admissions, she said, students who retake the exam could be at a disadvantage...
...Texas may be downgrading--or ignoring altogether--the significance of standardized tests, but don't expect their law-school counterparts to follow suit. At some elite institutions, a candidate's score on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) can count for as much as half the total application. The exam is so integral to vetting applications that even supporters of affirmative action reject the idea of dumping the LSAT as a way of recruiting more minority students. Says Michael Sharlot, dean of the University of Texas Law School, where only four blacks enrolled last fall: "It isn't a great...
...prospective minority applicants, those are not comforting words. On average, African Americans score 10 points below white test takers on the 180-point exam. But there is an open secret about law-school admissions tests: the playing field is not level. Whites and Asians are more likely than blacks to take commercial courses designed to prepare students for the LSAT. Though the disparity is slight, experts point to an even more significant test-prep gap: while whites take high-end, intensive courses offered by Kaplan Educational Centers and the Princeton Review, minorities tend to settle for cheaper, weekend crash courses...