Preparing for the new MCAT: the perspective of advisors

[...]MCAT2015 appears innovative, even revolutionary, but many advisors are unsure how to advise their students. By the 1940s, entrance requirements had significantly reduced the attrition rate of medical students from an all-time high of 50 percent in the 1920s to 7 percent by 1946. Since its inception, the MCAT has been more dynamic than students and advisors have realized: it has undergone four comprehensive revisions, along with numerous minor changes, including developing new scoring systems, adding or eliminating content, reducing cultural bias, and in 2007, computer-based testing.