It’s happened. You and your premeds’ worst fears are coming true. They have not received an acceptance to medical school—only waiting list notifications—and it’s getting late in the cycle. You are both getting more and more anxious. Having a decade of experience in this field, I recommend that you, as a parent, take the following…
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Tips for Getting into Medical School When Your Parent Is a Doctor
There has been an interesting shift in medical school admissions for applicants whose parents are doctors. In 1989, these applicants were 15% more likely to get into medical school. Ten years ago, students who had a physician for a parent were still more likely to get accepted into medical school. Ten years later, the opposite…
What to Expect After Medical School
For this section of our Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know To Get Accepted series, I’ll provide a brief rundown of what happens after you graduate from medical school. As you have probably realized by now, medicine requires a commitment to lifelong learning. There will always be new procedures, new medications, and new…
Should I Take a Gap Year Before Medical School?
Most students (44.8%) who took gap years did so for one to two years, 15.2% did so for three to four years, and 8.5% did so for five or more years. Clearly, the takeaway from this study is that more medical students who were accepted for 2021 admission took gap years than those who did…
The AAMC’s PREview: Everything You Need to Know
The PREview exam is a type of situational judgment test designed to help admissions committees assess applicants’ pre-professional competencies. Unlike quantitative measures, such as the MCAT and one’s GPA, the PREview exam attempts to evaluate the qualitative, or “soft,” skills believed to be just as important for future physicians. Thus, used in conjunction with other…
University of Washington School of Medicine Secondary Application Tips and Deadlines [2023-2024]
Given that the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) is ranked number-one in primary care by U.S. News & World Report, it looks for applicants who have a strong interest in patient education and community health. It is also committed to serving the needs of the citizens of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho…
Should You Consider a Caribbean Medical School?
If the application season isn’t going as you’d hoped, your thoughts might be turning to alternative ways of advancing your medical education. Perhaps you’re thinking about retaking the MCAT, boosting your GPA with postbaccalaureate coursework, or spending a year in a clinical or research environment. Or you might be thinking about warm tropical breezes and…
The Women’s Guide to Dressing for Medical School Interview Success
In a medical school interview, your first impression is often the only impression you get to make. With just a handshake, your aim is to come across as professional, confident, and trustworthy. After all the hard work you have put into your premed journey, this is your moment to shine as the outstanding applicant you are….
A Strategic Guide for Applying to Medical School
When premed students contact us about guiding them through the medical school application process, many of their questions are related to timing. “When should I …?” is a frequent question starter. Although no one single answer applies to everyone, here are the guidelines we use when advising our medical school clients. When should I apply…
Applying to Medical School? The Pre-Med Competencies are What You Must Show [Episode 554]
Show Summary What are the pre-med competencies? And if you’re pre-med and planning to apply in September 2024, what do they mean to you? That’s the subject of this week’s podcast of Admissions Straight Talk, as Linda Abraham and Dr. Valerie Wherley, an Accepted consultant, dive into pre-med competencies. Dr. Wherley gives an overview of…
Four Tips for High School Students Interested in a Career in Medicine
Today’s high school students have lived through an extraordinary – and extraordinarily difficult – chapter of history: the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly all students missed out on critical in-person class time and fell behind where they would have been academically if the pandemic had never happened. Yet, because of COVID-19, more high school students might be considering…
The Nine Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make on a Medical School Waitlist
“How bad is it, Doc?” Well, clients don’t quite ask me that. But, as they clutch their waitlist notification, they’re clearly feeling immense tension and anxiety, as though life itself hangs in the balance. Waitlisted applicants begin to wonder, “What does it all mean? What should I do? And when, oh when, will it end?”…
Best Practices for Parents of Med School Applicants
Many parents of premeds want to offer support and encouragement when their adult children are applying to med school. But first, they need to understand what goes into this arduous and lengthy process. Our popular workshop Parents of Premeds: Understanding the Med School Admissions Process and How YOU Can Help! is available for viewing online and provides…
UC Berkeley Haas MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines [2023 – 2024], Class Profile & Podcast Episode 547 with Eric Askins
While the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, has made it very clear that applicants need outstanding academics to get in, the program will not compromise its values to maintain it high stats. Haas’s four Defining Leadership Principles are taken very seriously by the school’s administration and admissions team. You will…
How to Get Accepted to Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University [Episode 544]
Please join me as I speak with Dr. Michael Ellison, Associate Dean for Admissions at Chicago Medical School at the Rosalind Franklin University. Dr. Ellison shares his insights on what makes Chicago Medical School unique, how to impress its admissions committee, and what all this information means for you as an applicant. Thanks for joining…
Practicing for Your Med School Interview
Most applicants come away from their first med school interview saying, “That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.” As with many things in life, the anticipation of a stressful event can sometimes be worse than the event itself. Although many med schools work hard to make interviewing applicants feel relaxed, this doesn’t…
All You Need to Know about BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine [Episode 541] & All About BU School of Medicine, a Social Justice-Minded Med School [Episode 405]
If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! In this interview, Dr. Kristen Goodell, associate Dean of…
Writing Your Essays for the TMDSAS (Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service)
The Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service (TMDSAS) has its own application process. You can begin filling out the organization’s electronic application on May 1, similar to the AMCAS application. On the TMDSAS application, there are two required essays and one optional essay. Ready to get to work on your TMDSAS application? Read on. …
Tuft’s MS in Biomedical Sciences: Your Pathway to Med School? [Episode 535]
Do you need a program to show medical or dental schools that you can handle the demands of their program because your undergraduate record just doesn’t quite do it? Well, pull up a chair. Our guest today is the Associate Director of the Tufts Masters in Biomedical Sciences program, which has an 80% plus admit…
Tufts University School of Medicine Secondary Application Essay Tips [2023-2024]
The Tufts University School of Medicine describes its fundamental mission as promoting human health, with an emphasis on leadership and clinical care. It is looking for students with a strong background in the fundamentals of science who want to apply that work in a clinical setting. The school’s curriculum emphasizes early patient contact along with full…
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