Interview with Dr. Farah Naz Khan, Endocrinology Fellow at Emory University School of Medicine [Show Summary] Dr. Farah Naz Khan is not only a physician, but also an engineer and Bollywood expert. Listen in as she shares why she started with an engineering degree before going on to be a doctor (and the positives in…
What to Expect After Medical School
For this section of our What to Expect After Medical School series, I’ll provide a brief run-down 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 lab tests to learn about. Treatments we…
William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Announces Fellows
The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund recently announced its eighth class of McGowan Fellows. The Chicago-based family foundation recognizes students from top business schools across the U.S. who are dedicated to societal issues and ethical practices. The McGowan Fellows Program, established in 2010, honors the legacy of William G. McGowan, the pioneering entrepreneur who embodied…
Welcome Back Cyd!
We’d like to welcome back one of our favorite consultants, Cydney Foote, back after a temporary retirement. After dabbling in Hollywood screen writing and some admissions consulting on her own, Cydney decided that she just missed Accepted.com too much! Cydney specializes in med school admissions, as well as residency and fellowship admissions. She is also…
Election Day Thoughts – Public Service and Fellowships
I’ll admit that no matter how cynical I’m feeling about our political process by the time Election Day rolls around (so many negative ads!), I always get a buzz when I actually go to the polls and vote. There’s something about this moment of actual, physical engagement with our democracy—it excited me when I was…
Huge 10% off Savings for Residency/Fellowship Applicants
The last year of med school or residency can be so overwhelming that it’s difficult to prepare for what comes next. However, applying to residencies or fellowships is not something to leave for the last minute, which is why you should start NOW. Need an incentive to jump-start your residency or fellowship apps early? No…
Why Use an Admissions Consultant?
This blog post originally appeared on AIGAC’s blog. There are endless and frequent discussions on forums and message boards questioning the value of admissions consulting. One of the more common arguments against using a consultant runs something like this: “Everyone I know that’s been accepted and is attending top schools did so without …an admissions…
A New Army of Public Interest Lawyers
While “public interest” law used to be a dirty word amongst corporate-minded law school students, there has been a noticeable shift in perception. In fact, more and more law school graduates are choosing jobs in public interest law. The percentage of law school graduates taking public interest jobs grew to 6.7% in 2010 from…
Save 20% on June Featured Ebooks for Medical Residency and Fellowship Applicants
There’s only one thing better than a monthly featured ebook…TWO monthly featured ebooks! Between now and Thursday, June 30, 2011, you can save 20% on both Write Your Way to a Residency Match and Write Your Way to a Fellowship Match with coupon code MATCH20. Write Your Way to a Residency Match…
Columbia 2012 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Our 2013 Columbia MBA Application Essay Tips are Now Online! Click Here to Check Them Out! This Columbia MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more valuable MBA essay advice. …
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Entrepreneurship
This post about Haas and entrepreneurship is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
Welcome to the Family!
The team at Accepted.com is happy to extend a warm welcome to two new editors this month, Dr. Sheryl Neuman and Nancy H. Evans. Sheryl is a former admissions committee member for UCLA Medical School and the Cedars Sinai Internal Medicine Residency program. She herself has applied (and gotten accepted) to top medical schools,…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Finance
This post about Haas and finance is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
Notre Dame Mendoza Announces High Stakes Applicant Case Competition
Unlike most business schools which reserve their high stakes competitions for current students, Notre Dame Mendoza has launched the Mini Deep-Dive Challenge, a case competition for applicants with hundreds of prizes, including a $10,000 fellowship to the Notre Dame MBA program. The competition highlights a key part of the Notre Dame MBA curriculum to prospective…
Plagiarism in Residency Essays: Just Don’t
The WSJ’s Health Blog recently posted “Study: Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism” which cites a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by a team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The researchers found “evidence of plagiarism” in 5.2% of residency application personal statements by comparing the essays to publicly available material…
Dartmouth Tuck 2011 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips
UPDATE- THE TIPS FOR DARTMOUTH TUCK’S 2012 MBA APPLICATION ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE. PLEASE POST QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO THE NEW POST. This Dartmouth Tuck 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. You can access…
Columbia 2011 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Update: The tips for the Columbia 2012 MBA application are now available online. Please review the tips and post questions or comments to the new post. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more valuable MBA application advice. This Columbia 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts…
Happening @ Accepted.com
On Friday I promised a whole new Accepted.com,and it’s up! Please check it out. We know there a few items to clean up, but please let us know what you like and dislike. You can let us know in comments below or just by contacting us. We have also implemented a change that many of…
What Does It Mean to Write from the “Inside Out”?
After devoting many days and countless revisions to his 250-word Stanford GSB Reliance Fellowship essay, the blogger at MBAdreamz concludes: “The mantra for writing essays should be bringing one’s ‘INSIDE OUT.’ The more one knows and reveals (about himself) in the essays, the more comfortable and confident he would be with the essays.” Having worked…
Surviving the Scramble
March 19th—Match Day—is just around the corner, and many residency hopefuls are biting their nails as the NRMP’s algorhythms work their magic. There’s not much else to do, after all the applications are submitted and interviews concluded and thank you notes written. Now it’s just a waiting game. The majority of applicants will hear “Congratulations,…
