<p>I shae mcat2’s speculation that the “MIT effect” is really an “engineering effect”. Engineers tend to do somewhat less well in medical school than their grades and MCATs would predict, and I think admissions committees find them to be too quantitative, rather than humanistic. I am not claiming this makes sense, but it does seem to happen.</p>
<p>Very few people from MIT apply to medical school, by report the advising is not very good, and it is probably true that the rigorous, research-oriented science education from MIT is not ideal preparation for the “memorize and repeat” format of the MCAT, or for that matter medical school.</p>
<p>Your typical MIT student is probably too smart to be a doctor.</p>