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Applying to Medical School with Enthusiasm, Information, and a Strong Support System

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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 Maria Valdez… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what are you studying as …

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Turning a Med School Rejection Into a Path of Experience & Acceptance

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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 Ally P… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study …

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Stand Out! A Critical Goal for Your Application [Episode 181]

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I covered the importance of showing fit in Episode 162 “Focus on Fit,” the second most popular show of 2016 and the most popular show of the second half of 2016. But there is a second focus you need if you want to apply successfully to highly competitive programs. You need a corollary to fit. …

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Female Medical School Enrollment Reaches 10-Year High (and Other AAMC Report Findings)

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According to a report by AAMC, the number of women enrolling in medical school in 2016 increased 6.2% over the previous year to 10,474. This is the largest increase since 2006. 2016 also represented an all-time high in the overall number of medical school applications, with 53,042 students applying, 38,782 of whom were first-time applicants. …

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Patient to Physician: A DO Student Shares Her Journey

interview with hannah hamlin

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 Hannah Hamlin… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study …

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Where’s the Poetry? The Secret Ingredient in Your Graduate Application Essays

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Strategy will necessarily guide your selection of essay topics, anecdotes/examples, and structure. Yet an essay built on calculation alone, even if the strategy is spot on, will often disappoint. Logically it all makes sense. But it doesn’t take flight. Poetry can be the secret ingredient to make your application essay sing – right into the heart of its readers. …

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Music and Medicine in the Caribbean: Katie Lamont

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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 Katie Lamont… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study …

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Get Accepted to Hofstra Medical [Episode 179]

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Ten years ago, the AAMC looked with alarm at the increasing and aging U.S. population and the aging physician workforce, and called for an increase in medical school enrollment of 30% by 2015. At least partially in response to that call to action, approximately seven years ago Hofstra University and North Shore-LIJ Health System established …

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