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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, units, and grade as well as classification for every college level class you’ve ever taken. It’s easy to make mistakes here since there are so many to list. Besides entering in the basic information about…
You Can’t Miss These AMCAS Tips!
There’s still time to register for our webinar, Create a Winning AMCAS Application! In one information-packed hour, you’ll get a detailed rundown of the entire AMCAS application with loads of tips on how to apply strategically and effectively. Webinar presenter and medical school expert Alicia McNease Nimonkar will help you answer the following important questions:…
The Most Productive Study Break Ever
Take a break from studying to attend our upcoming webinar, Create a Winning AMCAS Application! (Is it actually a study break if it’s still related to your medical school application future? Maybe not, but it’s still a break from whatever other preparing you’re doing!) In any case, we hope you’ll join us for this informative…
Ace the AMCAS Essay: 5 Effective Techniques to Improve Your Writing
In this blog series, you’ll get succinct, practical tips on how you can optimize your AMCAS application for acceptance to top medical schools. So far in this series we’ve talked about the WHO, WHY, WHAT, and HOW of creating an exemplary AMCAS essay. Now we’re going to offer some bonus tips that will help elevate your…
The Secret to AMCAS Success
Let’s face it: it’s hard to get accepted to medical school. If you’re premed, you already know that – that’s why you’ve spent so much time and energy during your college years studying, doing research, volunteering, getting clinical exposure, and doing everything you can to make sure you’re prepared for the challenge that lies ahead….
Ace the AMCAS Essay: How Should You Structure Your Essay?
In this blog series, you’ll get succinct, practical tips on how you can optimize your AMCAS application for acceptance to top medical schools. In this post we’re not going to talk about the actual writing and editing (we’ll save those technical elements for another time), but we are going to suggest HOW to structure your essay….
Ace the AMCAS Essay: What Should You Include in Your Essay?
In this blog series, you’ll get succinct, practical tips on how you can optimize your AMCAS application for acceptance to top medical schools. As I discussed in the first post of this series, your AMCAS essay serves as your introduction to the med school admissions board. In this way, your essay much more resembles a human interest…
Ace the AMCAS Essay: Why Do We Have Personal Statements?
In this blog series, you’ll get succinct, practical tips on how you can optimize your AMCAS essay for acceptance to top medical schools. Do the essays in your med school applications serve as mere padding for the rest of your application? Or do they have some higher purpose? I’d like to propose three important reasons WHY…
Ace the AMCAS Essay: Who Should Write Your Essays?
In this blog series, you’ll get succinct, practical tips on how you can optimize your AMCAS essay for acceptance to top medical schools. Who Should Write Your AMCAS Essay? The obvious answer here is that YOU should (and if anyone else does for you, then you can expect to be found out and rejected). But…
Med School Kicks Off: Ten Tips to Get You Through the Season
Medical school hopefuls are getting ready to work on those applications. This can be an awfully hectic time as you try to stay on top of everything. Here are ten tips to help you hit the ground running: 1. Get cozy with the AMCAS/AACOMAS. These two services (the acronyms stand for the American Medical Colleges…
Lack of Substance: Med School Application Essay Flaw #1
Watch what you write! In this blog series, we’ll examine the 5 fatal flaws that you should avoid when writing your med school application essays. In our first post, we’ll discuss how to avoid writing a personal statement that lacks substance. Writing about nothing will bore your readers. If your personal statement or secondary essay…
What to Include in the AMCAS Activities Section
You have a limit of fifteen activities that you can include in the activities section of the AMCAS application. It will hurt your application if you have less than fifteen activities. The types of activities that you include, the length of time you participated, and how you describe them all have an impact on how…
What You Need to Know Before the AMCAS [On-Demand Webinar]
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Our webinar Create a Winning AMCAS Application was a huge success. If you missed it, don’t worry – you still have a chance to benefit from Alicia McNease Nimonkar’s expert AMCAS application advice! The full webinar is now available to view, free, on-demand. Check it out.
Applying to Medical School: Selecting Extracurricular Activities
When considering your long term goal of attending medical school, selecting extracurricular activities that will set your application apart can seem overwhelming. This blog post will provide you with strategies for finding and selecting activities. In choosing activities, it’s important to consider the following: 1. Do what you love. It’s more interesting to see applicants who…
Three Steps to Starting Your Medical School Personal Statement
Don’t know where to start? Take a deep breath. You’re facing the blank page with that dizzying cursor flashing expectantly. You think it shouldn’t be that hard to write a personal statement, yet you’ve already gotten up for a second cup of coffee, scrolled through Instagram, and twiddled around with your new fidget spinner. What’s…
4 Things To Do Before Submitting Your AMCAS Application
While the AMCAS process is open for several months, it’s to your advantage to apply earlier rather than later so that med schools can consider your application when they have more seats available to fill. With an ongoing process, how can you tell when your application is ready to submit? Here are four things we…
How To Write The Statement Of Disadvantage
If you have experienced any form of social, economic or educational disadvantage—at any time in your life—you can apply to medical school as a disadvantaged applicant. To receive this designation means that you will need to complete an additional essay on the AMCAS application. The character limit for this short essay is 1,325. Examples of…
Retaking Courses in Preparation for Applying to Medical School
The American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) has applicants manually enter all coursework and grades into the AMCAS application. You may wonder why they have you complete this seemingly repetitive and arduous section, given that they collect official copies of all transcripts. It allows them to create a standardized GPA calculation from which to compare…
Is Your AMCAS Application Ready?
After years of premed preparation, you’re almost ready to take a huge step along your med school journey: submitting your AMCAS application. (Deep breath!) It’s exciting, but also stressful: you know the competition is intense, so your application needs to represent you as effectively as possible. Does it? One of the challenges of this final…
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