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Another major decision facing students who take the MCAT is whether they should sweat it out and take the exam the summer before their junior year in college, or whether they should take it in the spring before they apply to medical school--when they must contend with a full course load and extracirriculars...
Because a number of medical schools have rolling admissions, students are discouraged from taking the MCAT the summer in which they plan to apply since the test results would delay the processing of the application...
Nevertheless, students still face the decision of whether to take the MCAT in the summer--and get it over with--or the spring, and risk having to study for the exam with a full course load...
Janos Zahajsky '98 can sit back and relax this Saturday while his friends are busily working out chemical equations on the MCAT because he chose to take the exam over the summer...
...took the MCAT last summer because I realized that during that school year.... I always have plenty of things to worry about and it's easier to work around a job during the summer than around classes during the school year," Zahajsky says...