The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith announced Thursday that the Association of American Medical Colleges, the private agency which administers medical college admission tests, has agreed to change one of the four annual test dates so it will not be on the Jewish holiday, Simchat Torah, Sunday, Sept. 28, The test will be given, instead, on the following day, The other scheduled dates are Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4, and Saturday, Sept. 27, The ADL, Arnold Forster, ADL general counsel, said it is pleased that the matter was resolved amicably after the League brought it to the association’s attention.
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