Predictive validity of admission tests and educational attainment on preclinical academic performance – a multisite study

The findings of this study suggest that both admission tests and high-school GPA are well-suited as selection criteria in the admission process. Given the growing concerns regarding high-school GPA, admission tests emerge as a compelling alternative, particularly because of their stronger predictive power. Within each examined admission test, content-rich subtests containing elements of both crystallized and fluid intelligence demonstrated the strongest association with academic performance in preclinical years, in line with the test-criterion content match hypothesis.