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...even if Harvard and other schools fail to go as far as Johns Hopkins in limiting the MCAT's role, Foster and Hershbach say, the standardized entrance exam will continue to be reevaluated...
...efforts at Harvard, however, its activity lags behind that of some other schocls. Last spring, officials at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said they will eliminate the MCAT as an admissions requirement...
...move received varied appraisals. For example, Foster says he has "mixed feelings" about the change. As to Harvard Med's admissions policy, the dean said he does not forsee any change regarding the MCAT requirement...
Course changes that may humanize the science curricula, focusing on health applications and contexts, may also leave students clueless in front of MCAT exams, or out in the cold in the face of stringent medical school requirements...
...addition, some view the current MCAT as "superficial," testing only the surface of the basic science learned in premedical courses. Critics also point to what they believe is its disproportionate influence. Furthermore, many feel that the MCAT simply cannot measure or predict a student's clinical capabilities--in other words, it says nothing about how good a doctor a student might become...