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April 8, 2022

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

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

April 3, 2022

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Reapplying to Medical School: Secondaries, Interviews and School Selection

Reapplying to Medical School: Secondaries, Interviews and School Selection

In this final part of your assessment, we will look at all the other ways you communicated with the admissions committee. With the multi-staged admissions process, and an increasingly longer application season, applicants have multiple opportunities to make an impact – or be weeded out. Therefore, it’s important to evaluate whether or not your interactions… 

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Article by Cydney Foote / Medical School Admissions / Medical School Interview, Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success, Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection, secondary essays

March 30, 2022

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Reapplying to Med School: Your Primary Application

Reapplying to Medical School Your Primary Application

The previous posts have focused on identifying problem areas in your application and offering ideas to help you address them. You might be feeling a bit fragile after such a critical review – if so, then you’re doing it right. This exercise demands that you be ruthless and identify every potential flaw. Your ego might… 

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Article by Cydney Foote / Medical School Admissions / AACOMAS, AMCAS, Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success, Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection, TMDSAS

March 13, 2022

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Reapplying to Med School: Evaluating Your Medical School Profile

Reapplying to medical school? Learn how to evaluate your profile!

What should you do if you applied to med school and all you’ve received are rejections? You knew there was a possibility that this would happen, but that doesn’t erase the sting. What can you do now? How can you move forward? To start with, know you’re not alone. In the 2021 application cycle, only… 

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Article by Cydney Foote / Medical School Admissions / Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success, Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection

June 15, 2021

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How to Respond to a Rejection [Episode 422]

How to Respond to a Rejection

How to Respond to a Rejection [Show summary] Admissions guru Linda Abraham highlights four reasons that could cause a rejection and offers concrete, practical suggestions for moving forward.  How to Respond to a Rejection [Show notes] Some of you are unfortunately facing a fistful of dings at the moment. Some of you haven’t heard definitively…. 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Other Healthcare Admissions / college rejection, Grad school rejection, Law school rejection, MBA rejection, medical school rejection, podcast

January 14, 2021

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What to Do if You’re Rejected from Grad School

What to Do if You’re Rejected from Grad School

Rejection hurts, especially if it’s from a school that you really had hoped to attend. Competition is always tough at good schools, and space is limited–not everyone who is qualified can get in.  You can still achieve your dreams by taking this three-fold approach: Reassess your qualifications, and based on that, revise your target schools… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Consulting, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / Grad school rejection, Law school rejection, MBA rejection, medical school rejection

February 12, 2020

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Why Were You Rejected from Medical School?

Why were you rejected from medical school

You worked your tail off as an undergrad to have an amazing GPA, took MCAT review courses to get a high score, participated in hours of clinical experience, and were still rejected from medical school! Where did you go wrong? How can you get it right next time? 3 tips from the Accepted med school… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection

February 26, 2019

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The Dreaded Med School Rejection: What Now?

The dreaded med school rejection

“Dear Incredibly Hard Working Premed and Hopeful Doctor, Our admissions committee has met, and we regret to inform you that you were not selected as a student for our entering class. There were many qualified blah blah blah…” Ouch. I worked hard. I shadowed. I volunteered. My GPA was great! I gave everything I had… 

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Article by Accepted / Medical School Admissions / Journeys with Joshua, Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection

January 1, 2019

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Moving Forward After Medical School Rejection

It is devastating to receive a rejection. We actually experience physical pain; the same parts of the brain that are activated when we are kicked or punched, light up when we experience rejection. Given the very real physical and emotional pain of rejection, as anyone who has been through it before can attest, there are… 

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Article by Alicia Nimonkar / Medical School Admissions / Medical school reapplication, medical school rejection

December 19, 2018

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8 Reasons Medical School Applicants are Rejected

Each medical school receives thousands of applications every year and most schools have less than a hundred spots available. That means that you need to be extremely careful when applying to medical school (as a first time applicant or a reapplicant) that you don’t transgress those common mistakes that will get you rejected. The most… 

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Article by Alicia Nimonkar / Medical School Admissions / medical school rejection, optimize your med admissions profile

December 5, 2018

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What if Your Child is Rejected from Medical School?

What if Your Child is Rejected from Medical School?

While we always hope for the best, sometimes life does not go as we plan. If your child has received rejections from all of the medical schools that they applied to, it may seem like the end of the world. Here are 4 tips to help your future physician overcome this devastating experience: 1. Give them some time Our… 

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Article by Alicia Nimonkar / Medical School Admissions / medical school rejection, Parents of Pre-meds

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