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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Choosing the optimal date for the MCAT requires weighing study plans, application deadlines, prerequisites and more. With so much to consider, it’s important to choose a test date that aligns with ...

The School of Medicine announced in June that applicants would no longer be required to submit a Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) score during the 2020-21 admissions cycle. While submitted ...

Per the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), an estimated 85,000 students sit for the MCAT each year, all with aspirations to get into a good med school. But what’s the lowest MCAT score ...