GRE instead of MCAT?

bluedevilmike
Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:46:19 +0000

“When everybody’s special… no one is.”

To be honest, I do really like the MCAT. I think it’s a good test. I think it’s well-structured and tests skills that really are relevant. I know it’s hard and frightening, but I really do think it provides admissions committees with valuable information.

Too, I think the upward-scaling of the exam is also a good thing. Unlike the SAT/GRE – and like the LSAT – each point is progressively harder to earn. This “de-compacts” the field at the top. While it’s true that single questions can be rather arbitrary ways to assign points, it’s equally true that the rest of the process is equally arbitrary, and that this at least injects *some *predictability into the process.