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Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I think you’re misreading the AAMC documents. </p>

<p>There aren’t going to be doctors who “lack the science and math skill”; there are going to be doctors who excel at teamwork, oral communication, compassion and excel at science and math skills.</p>

<p>Many med schools (esp those with holistic admission processes) already select for this type of student.</p>

<p>Boston U SOM is one of early adopters of holistic admissions. Their results are here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1300411”>http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1300411&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The number of URMs matriculating are up, but so is the average GPA, sGPA and MCAT score.</p>

<p>This trend appears to hold for other holistic admission schools. </p>