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...last four years at Baltimore's JohnsHopkins Medical School, applicants have not beenrequired to take the Medical College AdmissionsTest (MCAT), the standardized test almost everyother school in the country uses. Instead, Hopkinsallows applicants to submit any of four admissionstests, including the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...Faced with a musical/medical dichotomy, Anderson says that she must now decide whether or not to go to med school. "I've been so lackadaisical about it the whole thing, trying to put it off for as long as I can," Anderson says. "I'm going to take the MCAT's in the fall, and I'll be applying this summer...
...evaluate candidates' credentials when a standardized test which is believed to be both objective and predictive can do it for you? For the same inexorable logic which holds that good lawyers can be culled out by the LSAT, future business mogols by the GMAT, dexterous dcoctors by the MCAT, and brilliant scholars by the GRE also insists that the very best senior faculty can be identified by a standardized test...
...almost positive I want to be a neurosurgeon," Sample says, and he has the grades to get into a top-flight medical school. But he will be spending next year playing piano in a Gospel music studio in Detroit, not studying for the MCAT. And while most seniors leave behind a few close friends when they take on a career, Sample parts from "probably 40 or 50" friends just among the sophomores in Quincy House...
Most educators agree that the MCAT and medical school admissions policies will not change until undergraduate and graduate teaching are changed. But experts foresee a problem in doing this. They must change what goes on in the classroom in order to reform the criteria by which students are judged, yet they are limited in how they can change curricula by those same criteria...