Old MCAT or New MCAT test?

momof3sons
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:11:09 +0000

WayOutWestMom,
My S is graduating from college in June, and was planning on taking the MCAT in September 2014. However, he plans to work in the medical field for a couple of years and apply for fall 2016 admission. He really is in that gray area, it seems. He wouldn’t have the required coursework for the new MCAT version, but I wonder how the med schools could require him to have it based on when he graduated. I thought that taking a gap year or two was fairly normal nowadays, but I wonder if he is going to be out of the running for some of the highly selective medical schools because of this “gray area.”