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THe statistics are all listed here. There’s lots of detail on these sheets.</p>
<p>[FACTS:</a> Applicants, Matriculants, Graduates, and Residency Applicants - Data - AAMC](<a href=“http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/]FACTS:”>http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/)</p>
<p>The MCAT is very important, but that is taken when kids are 21 or 22, not 16 or 17. Things can change. And like I said, the test is very different than the SAT Reasoning test. If there is a correlation between SAT and MCAT scores I suspect it is because serious students in high school are often serious students in college. But some kids are late bloomers. </p>
<p>It may be easy to buffalo your way to good grades in high school, it is a lot harder in a rigorous science program at a college. I personally think that from what I see on sample tests, the MCAT is not as hard as the classwork. Kids will get weeded out in the classes. There’s no reason to program your life based on a test you take high school junior year.</p>