How to Write a Med School Personal Statement that Captures Your Best Qualities
This is the third post in our series on applying to med school in the most efficient and timely manner.…
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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.…
Your 5-Item Checklist for Submitting Your Applications
Whether you’re applying to b-school, law school, med school, grad school, or college, this checklist will be the same. Don’t…
7 Traits of a Competitive Medical School Applicant
Are you med school material? What traits are the adcoms looking for in their future students? It’s time to do…
Writing an Awesome AMCAS Essay
You’ve taken the MCAT, completed all the pre-reqs, and maybe shadowed a physician, done some research, and volunteered. Now it’s…
5 Steps to Medical School Admissions Success
How can you turn your medical school dreams into reality? By following the 5-step framework that Linda Abraham, CEO and…
Application Essay Tip: The Devil is in the Details
You can argue about the devil, but certainly the substance, distinctiveness, and success of your essays depends on the details.…
Personal Statement Tip: Less is More
Most of us have heard the saying “less is more,” but how many of us put it into practice when…
5 Pointers for a Stand-Out Med School Personal Statement
If you don’t put effort into standing out in your medical school personal statement, then you likely won’t. Most applicants…
How to Use Your Research Background to Get into Medical School
You've always been great at science and figured your research – whether in college, grad school, or professionally – would…
Is Your Child’s Med School Essay the Best it Can Be?
After reading thousands of applications over the years, I’ve noticed that there are common strategies that successful applicants use in…
Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Your Application Essay
The Application Essay Do's: Unite your essay and give it direction with a theme or thesis. The thesis is the…
What Should I Write About? Making a Difference
In my non-admissions life, I once went to a lecture given by a biographer whose work I admire. In the…
How to Demonstrate Leadership When You Don’t Have Leadership Experience [Short Video]
Most admissions committees are looking for applicants who can demonstrate leadership. If you don't have any formal leadership positions to…
Where’s the Poetry? The Secret Ingredient in Your Graduate Application Essays
Strategy will necessarily guide your selection of essay topics, anecdotes/examples, and structure. Yet an essay built on calculation alone, even…
Female Medical School Enrollment Reaches 10-Year High (and Other AAMC Report Findings)
According to a report by AAMC, the number of women enrolling in medical school in 2016 increased 6.2% over the…
Stand Out! A Critical Goal for Your Application [Episode 181]
I covered the importance of showing fit in Episode 162 "Focus on Fit," the second most popular show of 2016…
Encore: Your Past Doesn’t Define You [Episode 228]
This week we are airing an encore of one of the most populars shows of 2017. Many applicants focus on…
Writing the Diversity Personal Statement
One of the many challenges of applying to college or graduate school is showing the admissions committee how you’ll fit…
Stand Out or Fit In? 4 Application Strategies to Help You Do Both
It can be confusing: Half of the advice you read urges you to stand out in your application, while the…