Short of coming up with a form of the DAT for pods admissions, I still think the Gold standard is the MCAT. It's the only medical admissions test and since podiatry is podiatric med school, shouldn't that be the test? Afterall the DAT is slanted towards dental students needs and we aren't too close to teeth by working on feet, are we? Perhaps a PDAT test, since PAT is pharmacy admissions I think.
At least the MCAT measures from the perspective of overall science ability, geared to the basic sciences, and therefore is closest to pods admsisions needs. It would help if an exam was used by ALL pod schools that was standard, not optional as is the case now.
You can't apply to med school with a Miller's Analogies Test, now can you? Of course not. Then why apply to pods with anything other than a medical admissions exam?