What a horror show. Were the MCATs used for admission sufficiently reliable? Most people think so, and since future test scores are most strongly predicted by

What a horror show. Were the MCATs used for admission sufficiently reliable? Most people think so, and since future test scores are most strongly predicted by prior test scores, medicine is trending away from ranking (ie non instructive) exams once you’re “in.” Net increase in pass fail medical programs. Step 1 just became pass fail. Things like ABSITE becoming optional (ie diagnostic or instructional). Inbound students are so high quality despite there being so much more of them that maybe the testing really is counterintuitively too intense. Even if it were true that the students cheated, it isn’t material anymore, it maybe never has been, after you’ve been admitted. Could it work differently? I feel like your average medical dropout (no offense, essentially the average programmer on Hacker News) probably cheated more in school than an admitted medical student does. Remote leetcode has exacerbated that. On the other hand, a 23 year old who has made it just past the 1st year into their BigCo job probably faces more soul crushing false positive bureaucracy like watching your every digital move than a 23 year old 1 year into a top ranked medical program. The EFF would get much more mileage out of advocacy about 360° reviews, PIPs, stack rank, meetings about meetings, “mental health days,” etc. than this fortunately isolated and rapidly ameliorating incident. Because if there’s one thing big tech people are actually really bad at, it’s reducing soul crushing bureaucracy.