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Old 04-15-2012, 09:29 AM   #38
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success on the mcat is strongly correlated with success on usmle/comlex. that's all we can say.
Strongly correlated?

It is one of the strongest individual predictors but I think it's pretty loosely correlated. Here's a meta analysis on the correlation:

http://www.educus.com/Journals/SrchD...ookieSupport=1

My n=1 experience is that the MCAT is a fairly poor predictor of success for a lot of people. My MCAT was a 25 and my USMLE was in the upper 220's.
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