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November 16, 2022

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When Will Medical Schools Give You an Answer?

When will medical schools give you an answer

This post addresses some of the big questions on med school applicants’ minds: How long does a medical school have to invite an applicant to submit a secondary application? (Go there) When to expect interview invitations for medical school (or a response of ‘thanks, but no thanks’?) (Go there) Final interview invite date and update… 

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May 16, 2022

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Why Do You Want to Be a Doctor? [Short Video]

why do you want to be a doctor

“I really want to help people” simply isn’t a valid response to the common medical school application question, “Why do you want to be a doctor?” Watch this short video for Linda Abraham’s reflections on what to say – and what not to say – when answering this million dollar why I want to be a doctor essay question. Do… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / med application essays, Med Video Tips, optimize your med admissions profile

April 8, 2022

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Help, I Was Rejected by All the Med Schools I Applied To!

Help I was rejected by all med schools

Here’s my 2-minute answer to the question I hear every application season: “I was rejected by every single medical school I applied to. What can I change?” There’s a simple 2-step process that rejected med school applicants need to follow: Assess what went wrong, Fix it! What exactly was your application weakness? Did you apply… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Medical School Admissions / Med Video Tips, Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection

December 12, 2021

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3 Reasons Why Writing About Overcoming Obstacles Strengthens Your Application Essays

Writing About Overcoming Obstacles in Your Application Essays

Why do obstacles matter to the adcoms?  Applicants love to write about their accomplishments, whether in personal statements for graduate school or in b-school essays that ask for greatest achievements, challenges, and the like. And when they do, they are not shy about coming up with tangible accomplishments: driving innovations that led to revenue boosts… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Consulting, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Other Healthcare Admissions / college application essays, College Video Tips, grad application essays, Grad Video Tips, law application essays, Law Video Tips, mba application essays, MBA Video Tips, med application essays, Med Video Tips

December 11, 2020

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Why Should I Spend Money on an Accepted Med School Admissions Consultant?

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Why should I spend money on an Accepted med school admissions consultant? That’s a good question, and I’ll tell you why: Because it can pay off big time, pay off financially, pay off in all kinds of other ways, and it can actually make you thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. “What?!” you’re… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Medical School Admissions / Med Video Tips

November 19, 2020

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How to Answer Med School Questions about COVID-19 and Other Major Events of 2020 [Video]

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2020 has been a dark, dismal year, but as it draws to a close there’s light at the end of the tunnel. A vaccine is on the horizon. The election is behind us. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll soon be able to gather, hug, meet, and travel. Maybe we’ll be able to largely return to the… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Medical School Admissions / COVID-19 med, Med Video Tips

January 21, 2019

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How to Show that YOU Want to be a Doctor

How to Show that YOU Want to be a Doctor

“My mom is a doctor, my dad is a doctor. How can I prove to the med school admissions committees that I really want to be a doctor?”  Concerned that your application doesn’t demonstrate the extent of your personal commitment to medicine? An experienced admissions consultant can guide you as you craft an application… 

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December 19, 2018

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3 Reasons You Need to Start Working on Your Med School Applications NOW [Video]

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Medical school applications can’t be submitted until May or June, but getting an early start will give you three advantages that you simply can’t afford to pass up. In this video, Linda Abraham, Founder & CEO of Accepted and medical school admissions guru explains why getting the ball rolling now will help you get accepted. Related Resources: •… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / Med Video Tips, optimize your med admissions profile

December 19, 2018

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How an Accepted Med School Admissions Consultant Can Help You

How an Accepted admissions consultant can help you get accepted to medical school

Is an admissions consultant for you? How will they help? And most importantly, is it WORTH it? Watch this short video to help you answer these questions for yourself.  Medical school applicants face grueling competition and an unfamiliar, arduous journey to acceptance. Let me show you how we can ease the way. As a… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / Admissions Consulting, Med Video Tips, optimize your med admissions profile

December 3, 2018

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Personal Branding in Admissions

The term “personal brand” is bandied about a lot in admissions. I don’t claim to be an expert on branding, but after fifteen years editing essays and advising applicants, I know a bit about admissions. I see the concept of “personal brand” as a threat and opportunity for applicants. Want to know more?  See this… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips

December 3, 2018

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Three Topics to Discuss in Waitlist Letters

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If you are on a waitlist, Linda Abraham has something to tell you: You want your waitlist letter to be as compelling as possible. Check out our Waitlist Services and work one-on-one with a dedicated advisor who will help you jump from the waitlist to that coveted acceptance pile. Learn more about how we can… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / College Video Tips, college waitlist, Grad Video Tips, grad waitlist, Law Video Tips, law waitlist, MBA Video Tips, MBA Waitlist, Med Video Tips, med waitlist

November 29, 2018

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5 Steps to Medical School Admissions Success

5 steps to medical school admission success

How can you turn your medical school dreams into reality? By following the 5-step framework that Linda Abraham, CEO and founder of Accepted, lays out in this quick video. Watch, and learn.  Full video transcript: You’re going to make a fantastic physician. You know it. Your family knows it. And now you need to… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / med application essays, Med Video Tips

July 29, 2018

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How to Demonstrate Leadership When You Don’t Have Leadership Experience [Short Video]

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Most admissions committees are looking for applicants who can demonstrate leadership. If you don’t have any formal leadership positions to discuss in your application essays, that doesn’t mean that all is lost. Watch this short video for Linda Abraham’s definition of “informal leadership” and how to highlight it in your applications. Visit our services section… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / college application essays, College Video Tips, grad application essays, Grad Video Tips, law application essays, Law Video Tips, leadership, mba application essays, MBA Video Tips, med application essays, Med Video Tips

July 29, 2018

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Writing the Diversity Personal Statement

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 in and stand out. Adcoms are trying to build student bodies that will work cohesively towards shared goals and ideals, but that come from different backgrounds and with different ideas so that the combined educational,… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Consulting, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / college application essays, College Video Tips, diversity, grad application essays, Grad Video Tips, law application essays, Law Video Tips, mba application essays, MBA Video Tips, med application essays, Med Video Tips

April 3, 2017

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How to Create a Distinctive AMCAS Application [Short Video]

create distinctive amcas application

“I’m just like everyone else. How can I distinguish myself in my AMCAS application?” It isn’t easy to stand out from a group of medical school applicants with so many shared goals and experiences. In this video, admissions guru Linda Abraham shares the secret to showing the admissions committee that there is no one out there quite… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / AMCAS, Med Video Tips

February 21, 2017

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Do I Really Need a Mock Admissions Interview? [Short Video]

Mock Interview

Just how important is a mock interview if you have a graduate school admissions interview coming up? Listen to Linda Abraham’s 2-minute answer to this often-asked question. Wondering how applicants who participated in mock interviews feel about them? Here is some recent feedback from two of our clients: “Our session went exactly like the simulation… Thank… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / college interview, College Video Tips, grad school interview, Grad Video Tips, law school interview, Law Video Tips, MBA Interview, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips, Medical School Interview

August 20, 2014

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Application Boxes Should Do the Heavy Lifting

For one of Accepted’s first forays into video, I decided to focus on application boxes, the mundane, pedestrian elements of an application that frequently are not given appropriate attention.  Please watch the video to see how you make the ordinary into extraordinary, value-added elements of your application. Since this is our first attempt at providing… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips

August 20, 2014

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Epidemic Among Applicants!

Your personal statements, application essays, and statements of purpose are suffering. It’s serious. And could be fatal to your application. This latest epidemic of vacuous, declarative sentences that either state the obvious or make non-credible claims has reached epic proportions in applicant essays, personal statements, and statements of purpose. The cure? Substance and specifics. Stories… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips, personal statement, writing techniques

August 19, 2014

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Are You an Older Pre-med?

In this short video, Linda Abraham shares the key to med school admissions for older applicants: For more advice on applying as an older applicant, check out this article. Have any questions about your medical school admissions profile? Just drop us a note in the comments section. Accepted.com ~ Helping You Write Your Best

Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / Med Video Tips

August 19, 2014

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The Biggest Application Essay Mistake [Video]

What is the very worst thing you could possibly do in your application essays? Watch Linda’s answer and add your own comments below: Accepted.com ~ Helping You Write Your Best

Article by Accepted / Admissions Consulting, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips, personal statement

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