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While few would dare to take their chances a second time, Tufts University and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) have put on their helmets and crossed their fingers in preparation for tomorrow's Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT...
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...
First, the history: last April's administering of the MCAT in Somerville was delayed for more than two hours because a thunderstorm caused a campus-wide black-out--which occurred literally two seconds before the already-nervous pre-meds opened the seal of their first section...
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...
...Experiences where students' self-esteem wasthreatened--such as doing poorly on an exam,getting bad feedback from a TF, feeling bad afteran MCAT--caused dieters to binge," Heathertonsays. "Distress interferes with people's abilityto self-regulate their behavior...