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Although the admission process is not solely dependent on MCAT scores, it's essential to understand what medical schools are looking for in their applicants. This map will be helpful for you to understand how each medical school has been selecting its students, along with their school mission statements and unique strengths, which can be found in our other blog posts. We hope this new map can provide a better resolution of the big picture of each medical school and help you understand your schools a little more. We are always here to support you in the long journey to become a physician!

This unusual tidbit was the first of many surprises when The Savvy Premed sat down for an interview with MCAT instructor Levonti Ohanisian. In addition to scoring well himself, Levonti serves as an MCAT teacher at UCSD Extension. While he teaches all subjects, some of his best advice is how to approach the test as a whole.

The scoring on the new MCAT is dumb. It's as if AAMC was trying to make it as hard as possible to do the math in our heads. Though they didn't include fractions or imaginary numbers, they chose some arbitrary numbers.

A wonderful, tell-it-as-it-is workshop at the UC Davis Pre Health Conference, led by Dr. Ann-Gel Palermo, an admissions officer from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, contained that gem of a quote above. It shows that admissions offices are taking a “wait-and-see” approach to the new MCAT. They’re not sure precisely what the new MCAT measures and how to use it to select a class.