Communicate With Your Applicants About the PREview® Exam

The AAMC conducts significant outreach to educate students about the PREview exam, but hearing about the exam and your policies directly from your school is a powerful communication tool. 

Key steps to communicate with applicants:

• Add the PREview exam to your American Medical College Application Service® (AMCAS®) and Medical School Admission Requirements™ (MSAR®) profiles.
• Update your school’s admissions website to highlight use of PREview scores.
• Include information about the PREview exam when communicating with applicants and advisors via social media, emails, and webinars.

Update your admissions website and applicant resources: 

Encouraging applicant awareness of how your school will use PREview scores during the admissions process can increase the likelihood of your applicants completing the exam. Communicating with students as early as possible is especially important. There are several important ways to ensure your school’s applicants have the necessary information about the PREview exam and how it fits within your admissions process.

Please consider including the following in your admissions information for applicants:

• Provide a clear explanation of your use of the PREview exam high on your requirements list to increase applicant awareness and thus registration and completion rates.
• Describe how you will evaluate applicants with and without PREview scores. Please see sample guidance language below that you can adapt for your specific needs.
• Link to the AAMC PREview website, so students can easily access the testing calendar, registration instructions, preparation resources, and other important information. 
• Share a list of published research articles supporting the importance of professional readiness, so applicants understand why the PREview exam is part of your admissions process. This can increase the likelihood that they complete the exam.

Example "Require PREview Scores" admissions website description

Professional readiness is increasingly important in ever-changing medical school environments. The AAMC PREview professional readiness exam is a situational judgement test designed to assess key professional skills that are critical for success in medical school and beyond. For the [current year] application cycle, [school name] will require a PREview score to be considered for admission. An application that does not include a PREview score will be considered incomplete. PREview scores will be factored into evaluation of applicants for admission. Please visit the AAMC PREview website for more information about test preparation and registration and to read research supporting the PREview exam.

Example "Recommend PREview Scores" admissions website description

Professional readiness is increasingly important in ever-changing medical school environments. The AAMC PREview professional readiness exam is a situational judgement test designed to assess key professional skills that are critical for success in medical school and beyond. For the [current year] application cycle, [school name] will recommend that applicants include a PREview score as part of their application.  While [school name] does not require a PREview score for an application to be considered complete and eligible for review; we value the inclusion of the PREview scores in the admissions process. Applications will be considered complete without a PREview score, but completion of
the exam can demonstrate an applicant’s commitment to showcasing all their strengths during the admissions process. Please visit the AAMC PREview website for more information about test preparation and registration and to read research supporting the PREview exam.

Example "Exploring the PREview Exam for Future Use" admissions website description

Professional readiness is increasingly important in ever-changing medical school environments. The AAMC PREview professional readiness exam is a situational judgement test designed to assess key professional skills that are critical for success in medical school and beyond. For the [current year] application cycle, [school name] will explore the PREview exam for future use. [School name] does NOT require applicants to submit PREview scores as part of the application process, and scores that are submitted will NOT be factored into application review and student selection. Applications will be considered complete without a PREview score. PREview score data will be evaluated to determine how PREview scores might be implemented into future admissions cycles. Please visit the AAMC PREview website for more information and to read research about the PREview exam.

Leverage social media channels:

Your school’s social media account(s) offer invaluable opportunities to engage with applicants and reinforce information you’ve shared about the PREview exam on your admissions site. 

Notify your community of prehealth advisors:

It is important to notify prehealth advisors at the undergraduate institutions from which you frequently receive applications about your decision to use the PREview exam in your admissions process. The AAMC provides resources specifically to support prehealth advisors, including live webinars for their students upon request and testing and preparation resources. 

Contact the AAMC PREview team at any time for advice about communicating with your applicants about the PREview exam: preview@aamc.org.