During the registration process for the MCAT exam, you will be asked to consider the options below.

MCAT Recruiting Service

If you choose to participate in the MCAT Recruiting Service, you authorize the AAMC to release your name, address, age, gender, state of residence, undergraduate major, email address, and MCAT scores to those U.S., Canadian, and Caribbean schools of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, and veterinary medicine; other health professions programs (as defined in the Eligible Health Professions Programs section of this document); and U.S. government scholarship programs that participate in the MCAT Recruiting Service. The AAMC will release your information only to the above-mentioned programs and their related joint-degree programs so long as they are accredited by nationally or internationally recognized accrediting bodies, such as the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Those programs may send you information about their programs if you participate in the MCAT Recruiting Service. The AAMC may charge a reasonable fee for schools and scholarship programs to participate in the MCAT Recruiting Service.

Participation in the MCAT Recruiting Service is voluntary and may be elected only during the MCAT registration process. Your decision can be changed up until 10 days from your exam. The MCAT program does not instruct eligible institutions on their method or frequency of contact or about any distribution of their recruiting materials. If you wish to be removed from email lists, please reach out to individual schools.

Health Professions Advisor Release

Selecting “Yes” to the Health Professions Advisor Release during the registration process authorizes the AAMC to release a record of your MCAT scores to your school’s designated, AAMC-approved health professions advisor who has met the AAMC-established requirements and confidentiality protocols through the Advisor Information System.

The Health Professions Advisor Release is voluntary and may be elected during the MCAT registration process. Your decision can be changed in the MCAT Registration System up until 10 days from your exam date.

If an undergraduate institution does not have a designated health professions advisor or has not identified the advisor to the AAMC, we cannot release your scores to the institution through this process.

If you applied for fee assistance through the AAMC Fee Assistance Program and in your Fee Assistance Program application you agreed to release award information to your health professions advisor, that information will be released along with your test scores. Additionally, if you indicated in your AMCAS application that you would like your application released to your health professions advisor, the AMCAS information released will include your MCAT scores — regardless of your answer to the Health Professions Advisor Release question in the MCAT Registration System.

Medical Minority Applicant Registry (Med-MAR)

The Medical Minority Applicant Registry (Med-MAR) enhances outreach to applicants from groups historically underrepresented in medicine. Medical school applicants who self-identify as being from groups historically underrepresented in medicine or who are economically disadvantaged can elect to participate in Med-MAR.

Participation in Med-MAR is voluntary and may be elected only during the MCAT registration process. Your decision can be changed up until 10 days from your exam date. The MCAT program does not instruct eligible institutions on the method or frequency of outreach to participants or assist in the development or distribution of recruiting materials. 

If you choose to participate in Med-MAR, your basic biographical information with your MCAT scores will be distributed to AAMC-member schools.

If you agree to participate during the registration process, your name, address, age, gender, state of residence, undergraduate institution, undergraduate major, racial and ethnic group identification, email address, and MCAT scores will be made available to U.S. medical schools attempting to increase outreach to potential applicants from groups historically underrepresented in medicine and economically disadvantaged.

You are eligible if (1) you are a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or lawful permanent resident of the United States (green card holder) or have been granted refugee/asylum or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status by the U.S. government; and (2) you are economically disadvantaged or of low socioeconomic status or you self-identify as a member of a racial or ethnic group historically underrepresented in medicine — African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

Release to Alternate Contact

You may designate an alternate contact who is authorized to contact the AAMC on your behalf to obtain information about your MCAT registration and exams. To protect your private information, the AAMC does not share your MCAT total or section scores or other sensitive personal information with your alternate contact.

By completing this authorization, you release the AAMC from any liability resulting from release of information to the person you designate. This release does not in any way obligate the AAMC to provide any information to the designated parties.

A separate release is required if you are applying for testing accommodations and would like the MCAT Accommodations Services to correspond with medical professionals or others on your behalf. You may submit this release through the MCAT Registration System “Service Request” function.

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