Matching Your Values to a Medical School’s Mission Statement
We cannot stress enough how important it is to understand and think about a medical school’s mission statement when you…
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Med School Applications Kick Off: Ten Tips to Get You Through the Season
Getting ready to apply to medical school? This can be a hectic time as you try to stay on top…
Retaking Classes For Med School: What Every Premed Needs to Know
If you have retaken classes in the past – or expect to need to retake a class in the future…
Activity Descriptions for Med School: 4 Questions That Will Make Yours Awesome
Having worked in admissions for over a decade, I have probably read thousands of activity descriptions for medical school and…
Five Tips for Completing AACOMAS Secondary Applications
Looking for the best osteopathic med school admissions advice out there? Ace those AACOMAS apps by reading our osteopathic application…
Standing Out In Your AACOMAS Personal Statement and Experience and Achievements Section
The AACOMAS Personal Statement The AACOMAS requires one personal statement that is a maximum of 5,300 characters long. Below are…
Five Ways to Stand Out in the AACOMAS Experience and Achievements Sections
The Experiences section in the AACOMAS application asks you to list your non-academic work, including healthcare-related work, non-healthcare work, volunteer…
Five Tips for Requesting an AACOMAS Letter of Recommendation (Evaluation)
If you are planning to apply to osteopathic medical schools, the AACOMAS allows you to upload up to six letters…
Reapplying to Med School: Your Primary Application
The previous posts have focused on identifying problem areas in your application and offering ideas to help you address them.…
5 Dont’s for Your Medical School Personal Statement
The personal statement is the only place in the AMCAS, AACOMAS and TMDSAS primary applications where you get to present…
Ace Your Med School Application 2020 Webinar is Live
We had a wonderful turnout for our recent live session, Ace Your Med School Application: A Live Q&A with 3…
Overcoming The Odds: A Story Of Med School Inspiration
Think a low MCAT score means medical school is out of the picture? Not for Student Dr. Diva. Listen to…
Med School Admissions Veteran Shares Her Experience: How to Get In [Episode 314]
Accepted admissions consultant Cydney Foote sheds light on the medical school application process [Show Summary] Are you not quite ready…
What NOT to Do on the Medical School Coursework Section
This part of the medical school application can be time consuming since you will have to enter in the title,…
Medical School Application Strategy: MD vs. DO Programs
Before you decide whether you want to apply to allopathic (MD) and/or osteopathic (DO) medical schools, I recommend that you…
AACOMAS Changing Their Grade Forgiveness Policy
As of May 1, 2017, AACOMAS will be calculating all grades into their standard GPA calculation for all applicants. This…
Preparing for Your AACOMAS Application? Read On!
If you are applying to an osteopathic program, you should already know the type of student these schools are looking…
Do You Measure Up to the DO Applicants Who Got Accepted Last Year?
In reviewing the matriculation data for the 2016-17 cycle from AACOMAS, there are several trends that can inform your application…