Word: mcats
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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...
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...