These are read, evaluated and revised by the entire Committee with each applicants credentials at hand. At the request of the student-applicant, the Committee letter and accompanying copies of individual recommendations, are sent as a packet to each professional school to which the student has applied. In addition to the above, the Program facilitates the efforts of professional school admissions officers who come recruiting by dispensing information about their visits and arranging for rooms in which they can meet with students. A. Most health professions schools require a year of English which includes composition, a solid background in math, and a year each of general biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry and general physics. Recently, more professional schools have begun to require or strongly recommend an additional course - biochemistry.
Many schools also look for coursework in behavioral science and in the humanities.
Upstate Medical University College of Medicine. You are admitted to professional schools because of your college academic record and the test scores you attain. A. MCAT scores are correlated with SAT or ACT scores, for the most part. One should try, while in college, to improve study skills and efficiency of time management in order to exel in increasingly difficult subject matter. The MCAT scores can be much better than those predicted by SATs.