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Medical schools often use MCAT scores to predict students’ performance in the first two years of medical school. But admission offices apply different weights to the test in making their decisions, according to Lee Ann Michelson ’77, director of Premedical and Health Care Advising at the Office of Career Services...
...Michelson said that even if Harvard students score well below Harvard’s mean, their chances of going to medical school are still very good...
...applying to the College, prospective Harvard students are asked to identify a possible area of academic focus. Michelson said about 17 percent of the class of 2007 indicated pre-med on the form, compared to about 20 percent of the class...
...However, Michelson said she has reason to believe that a greater percentage of this freshman class will decide to pursue a career in medicine...
...Every fall, I do an orientation in the Science Center for freshmen who are interested in being pre-med,” Michelson said. “This year, it was filled. I have a feeling that we’re going to have more students interested in medicine...