Editors note: This article has been updated March 2017 and all the information in it is up to date If you're like most premeds thinking about applying to medical school, you've gone through this routine: You head over to a site like USNews.com and start hunting for admissions statistics to … [Read more...]
Low MCAT Score? Four Strategies to Consider to Help You Get In
Editors note: This article was updated in April of 2018. All information in it is current as to my knowledge. If you're reading this article, then you may have recently received some pretty bad news about your MCAT score. Hopefully, the bad news you received was a low score on a … [Read more...]
How to make your AMCAS experience descriptions stand out
The Work and Activities section of the AMCAS application lets you include up to fifteen experiences that are important to you. Within these fifteen, AAMC asks you to choose three experiences that you consider “most meaningful.” First, let’s start with examples of the thirteen “less meaningful” experiences. Choosing and Describing … [Read more...]
Medical School Letters of Recommendation: Your FAQ
Letters of recommendation are a medical school admissions requirement that you should ideally complete months before you apply. Not just any generic letter of recommendation will make your application stand out, so read the 10 FAQs to learn how to get great letters of recommendation that will be a major … [Read more...]