Beginning with test dates this spring, the MCAT changed to a new format. What do you need to know about the new MCAT? How is it scored? How is it different from the old version? Here are a few points: 1. The new exam has 4 sections: • Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems…
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Georgetown McDonough 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Georgetown McDonough, the top MBA program at the intersection of business and government, takes advantage of its Washington D.C. location, its connections to the greater Georgetown University community, and its Jesuit roots while at the same time focusing on the global nature of twenty-first century business. Your application should show that you need the education provided by…
For Parents: How To Help Your Premeds In Waitlist Limbo
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…
Tips For Applicants With A Low MCAT Score (Part 1)
Options Without Retaking the Exam All medical school applicants (or any other professional school applicant) must assess their credentials realistically in order to present themselves best during the application process. Since applicants are evaluated based on specific academic (undergraduate and graduate GPA and MCAT scores) and non-academic (research and clinical exposures, leadership skills, mentoring experiences)…
It’s MBA Season: Do You Know Where Your Applications Are?
Is it phony to start volunteering three months before applying to business school? What can I do to prepare to hit the ground running when my target programs release their applications? What is the worst thing to ask a school rep when I come to visit? Get the adcom perspective on these questions and more…
Attn Med Applicants: A Class Is Matriculated Every Single Year
If you are a pre-med preparing to take the MCAT or a waitlisted 2014 applicant, you may have something in common: A nagging fear that you just may not make it to medical school. Enter, Dr. Lina Mehta, Associate Dean for Admissions at Case Western Reserve University College of Medicine, with good news: You can get…
Should I Reapply To B-School? And To Which Programs?
This time of year, we gets lots of reapplication queries. Should I reapply? To which programs should I reapply? Let me give you a few tips on successful MBA reapplication: 1. Coldly and objectively analyze your profile. Do you have competitive qualifications for the schools you applied to? I just yesterday spoke to a former admissions…
MBA Maze: Application Timing
“Application Timing” is the first post in our series, Navigate the MBA Maze. Should you apply Round 1, Round 2, or Round 3? Do not try to win the admissions game through timing. Quality—not timing—trumps all. Submit your application when it is at its best. When in doubt, listen to Linda’s rule: “Apply in the…
Meet An Underrepresented, Highly Motivated MD/MPH Student
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com 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 Alexa Mieses… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as…
Improve Your MCAT Score for Medical School Acceptance
In the next section of our Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success, we’ll move from increasing your GPA to improving your MCAT score. Fortunately, it’s easier to tackle a poor MCAT score than a poor GPA. While you should not retake the exam too many times (don’t bother retaking if you’ve scored above a 32), a better-prepared…
Advice From A Med School Admissions Director
Click here for our most recent interview with Jen Welch: What’s New at SUNY Upstate Medical School? [Episode 322] One of the most popular Admissions Straight Talk episodes this year was our interview with med school admissions expert, Jennifer Welch. Jennifer Welch is Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at SUNY Upstate Medical University, and a…
Applying to Medical School as an Older Applicant
The average age for medical students has been steadily increasing over the years for several reasons. Medical schools cannot legally discriminate against applicants based on age. Often, applicants with more life experience make the best medical students as they are already established in their identity, maturity levels and career goals. As nontraditional students with additional…
Presenting Yourself to Medical Schools: Other Communications
In the last part of our Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success series we discussed the importance of assessing your dinged application, especially your personal statement. Today we’ll talk about other opportunities for you to shine – not through the personal statement, but through secondary essays and interviews. With the multi-staged admissions process, applicants can make…
Reapplying to Med School: Evaluating Your Medical School Profile
This is the first blog post in our series, Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success. Hopefully by now, you have your acceptance in hand and are gearing up for Fall. If so, then congratulations and good luck! But what if all you’ve received are rejections? To start with, know you’re not alone. Last year,…
7 Reasons Medical School Applicants are Rejected
Each medical school receives thousands of applications every year and most schools have less than a hundred spots available. With ten years of experience in medical school admissions, I have seen several patterns emerge in rejected applications. In learning from these applicants’ mistakes—what not to do—you can put together a stronger application. The most common…
An Inside Look at the Medical School Journey
If you are in med school now, or will be one day, there is someone we’d like you to meet. Listen to the full recording of our talk with Dr. Andrew Colucci – BU’s School of Medicine grad, radiology resident, teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School, and an Accepted medical school admissions consultant – for…
Global EMBA 2015 Essay Tips
The Global EMBA has 2 program options: EMBA-Global Americas & Europe which combines the strengths of Columbia University and London Business School; and EMBA-Global Asia, with Columbia University, London Business School, and Hong Kong University Business School. Of course all MBA and EMBA applications are about “fit.” The Global EMBA is too – just…
Got Dinged? You Can Handle It!
It may or may not be fair, but many of you are going to get at least a few rejections. What are you going to do about them? First and foremost—if you’ve gotten dinged at your top choice school, that doesn’t mean that you’re never going to get in. It doesn’t even mean that you…
4 Reasons You Got Dinged (And What You Can Do About It)
Many top MBA programs released decisions in the past several days, including: Chicago Booth, Cornell Johnson, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, UVA Darden, and Wharton. Did your app hit the chopping block? Here’s why: 1) You didn’t qualify. You gotta call a spade a spade sometimes (or always, really). If you had weak…
Should You Retake the GMAT Exam?
There’s no yes or no answer here, but I will give you some points to consider that will help you make your decision. You probably should retake the GMAT if… • You have other weaknesses in your profile and you feel a high GMAT score will help you compensate for them. • You have the…
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