While a student's major is considered, medical schools place the greatest weight on the "science" or BCPM GPA – that of ...

In a landmark remake of the MCAT exam in 2015, the Association of American Medical Colleges added psychology and sociology content for the first time. Doctors had appealed for the MCAT to be updated ...

More than 88,000 people took the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT for short) at least once in 2020. Almost all medical schools in the U.S. require students to submit exam scores from this ...

Ghassan S. Gammoh ’14 has taken Life Sciences 1a and 1b, Mathematics 1a and 1b, Statistics 104, Life Sciences 2, Physical Sciences 1, 2, and 3, a summer school class on organic chemistry, and a ...

Any student interested in going into medicine knows the importance of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), the test you need to get into medical school. The MCAT is notoriously difficult, and ...

MCAT: The mere mention of that acronym induces stress for many students considering medical school. It’s a draining exam, over six hours long, taken by more than 85,000 students a year, that requires ...

A panel representing the American Bar Association (ABA) recently voted to eliminate the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) as an admissions requirement for law schools. The main reason for doing this: ...

MCAT top scorers flock to these schools. U.S. News research rank: 55 (tie) U.S. News primary care rank: 59 (tie) U.S. News research rank: 55 (tie) U.S. News primary care rank: 51 (tie) U.S. News ...

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the full name of the group that administers the MCAT. It is the Association of American Medical Colleges . The story also misstated the title of ...

Admissions tests for many graduate schools have gone online. But not the MCAT, the exam for aspiring doctors. It must still be taken in person, pandemic or not. By Roni Caryn Rabin Students applying ...