<p>I don't know if this has been discussed. Is it too early for there to be a new LizzyM calculation? </p>
<p>Good question! I’m glad DS took the current one. I think the first year will be a bit bumpy as everyone learns the new format and med schools decide what they are looking for in results from the new test!</p>
<p>I remember when my son took the new SAT test with writing. Ugh! We parents were a wreck with worry about what that difference would be like.</p>
<p>^and there wasn’t really any, right? Don’t get me wrong, if I were a student I would be annoyed/anxious but the more rational observer several years out sees this as not going to change anything in terms of evaluating scores. I do think the implications for the course load are something worth talking about but the transition in scoring/use in admissions won’t even be a blip on the radar I think.</p>
<p>Oops. Sorry about the delayed response IWWB. I don’t see where I’ve written anymore.</p>
<p>Actually, I personally think the change from old-SAT to new/current-SAT is a good one. The new test included writing. Students should be able to write well to succeed in college and by making it part of their test, students have to know how to write. If they wanted to show competence in writing before that change, students would take the SATII test in writing (or maybe it was called English lit?) </p>
<p>One school that continues to ask for three SATs, even after the new SAT integrated writing, is Georgetown. That third SAT II test meant my middle son didn’t apply (and I so wish my youngest hadn’t because they lost his application which still irritates me.)</p>
<p>As for the new MCAT, who knows how that change will play out. In some ways, I think just getting tested for a longer test will make it harder. But then, that’s what they said about the new SAT. I wonder, for instance, how the test will be broken down into more areas beyond Bio/Chem/Critical Reading. And if it will include some practical or ethical scenerios to respond to, the way MMIs are done now.</p>