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The test itself costs $165. And many premeds take a Kaplan or Princeton Review course--running at about $1,000--to prepare for the grueling eight-hour exam.
Twenty-one schools may seem like a lot, but it is an average number for medical school applicants. Unlike undergraduate programs, which could admit hundreds, or thousands, of students into an entering class, medical schools often have only 100 spaces.
Sometimes she had stay for two nights or stay into Saturday. And, of course she took buses whenever she could.
She adds, though, that students should use premed student organizations, or the National Association of Advisors to the Health Professions, if they want to change the current system.
"That is where the critical mass is and where any negotiations with airlines or alumni networks is likely to occur," Orr wrote.