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How Patients Inspired This Future PA

Student IV Jourdyn

This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with medical school applicants and students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top medical schools and the med school application process. And now, introducing Jourdyn… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as …

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16 Grad School Application Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make [Episode 237]

Application Mistakes to Avoid

The application cycle is in full swing in early December, when I’m recording this podcast. In reflecting on the many applications that my colleagues and I review here at Accepted and the problems we help our clients deal with, I thought it might be a good time to discuss things you shouldn’t do – mistakes …

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How to Beat Standardized Test Stress

5 Stress Reducing Solutions for GMAT Success

It’s a truism that standardized tests don’t just test your knowledge – they also test how good you are at taking tests. If you’re suffering from anxiety because of your performance on earlier tests, it makes perfect sense that you’d be feeling stressed about the GRE or GMAT. And sometimes stress can serve a positive …

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How to Get Really Great Recommendations [Episode 235]

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Joe Pavlisko is the founder of Referrio, a start-up that makes getting and writing recommendations easy. Joe graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a concurrent master’s degree in finance. In addition to English, Joe speaks Spanish and German and taught English in rural Spain. After graduating from college …

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Working as a Medical Scribe Led This Student to Her PA Dream

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This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with medical school applicants and students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top medical schools and the med school application process. And now, introducing Lorae… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as …

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Andrea Benedict: Life as a Physician Assistant [Episode 234]

Andrea Benedict Pediatric Critical Care Physician Assistant Interview

Our guest today is Andrea Benedict, Physician Assistant, creator of the YouTube channel, Life as a PA, and founder of MEDTakeovers. This very busy professional earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Delaware in neuroscience, and went straight to the Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania’s Physician Assistant program. She has wide ranging experience as …

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5 Tips for Acceptance to a Physician Assistant Program

5 Tips for Acceptance to a PA Progra e1510233256594

Over the years, I’ve helped many students get accepted into Physician Assistant (PA) Programs across the country. To apply to PA programs, you will use the Central Application Service for Physician Assistants (CASPA). To help you send in an application that effectively presents your qualifications, I’m including five tips below to ensure that you, too, …

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MIT Sloan Master in Finance: How to Get In! [Episode 231]

MIT Sloan Master of Finance Program Heidi Pickett

This week we are pleased to welcome Heidi Pickett, Director of the MIT Sloan Master of Finance Program. Heidi worked in financial services for 20 years before becoming Director of this program in 2011. She fills us in on what the program is looking for in an applicant, how to figure out if the program …

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1 Doctor, 2 Entrepreneurs: Eliza Morrison & Andrew Nimmich [Episode 230]

Eliza Morrison Andrew Nimmich Nerdly

Meet Eliza Morrison and M4 Andrew Nimmich, the CEOs of Tutor the People and Nerdly. Both of today’s guests attended the College of Charleston in South Carolina where Eliza Morrison majored in French, Russian and Comparative Literature. Andrew Nimmich also attended the College of Charleston and CUNY Brooklyn College and majored in Pre-Medical Studies. He …

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What are Interest Rates and APR? (And Why are They Important?)

What are interest rates and APR

Let’s face it: education is expensive. And that’s before adding in an international component. Few students can afford the cost of attendance with the money that’s sitting in their bank accounts – their bank, their parent’s bank, and the accounts of half a dozen close friends and family members. The chances are good that you’ll …

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