Many parents of premeds want to offer support and encouragement when their adult children are applying to med school. But first, they need to understand what goes into this arduous and lengthy process. Our recent workshop, Parents of Premeds: Understanding the Med School Admissions & What YOU Can Do to Help!, provided a concise but…
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…
For Parents: How To Help Your Premeds In Waitlist Limbo
It’s happened. You and your premeds’ worst fears are coming true. They have not received an acceptance to medical school—only waiting list notifications—and it’s getting late in the cycle. You are both getting more and more anxious. Having a decade of experience in this field, I recommend that you, as a parent, take the following…
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 their application essays. Your child, too, can use these strategies to earn an interview and acceptance. The best application essays: 1. Avoid verbatim repetition When reviewing your child’s essay, you may notice that it’s nearly impossible…
How to Help Your Child Navigate the Med School Application Process
If you’re the parent of a premed, you already know the med school application process can be nerve-wracking. After working hard throughout college, your child is now preparing for the next step in a challenging, rewarding professional journey. This can be stressful for the applicants, and anxiety-inducing for their parents. Sometimes, parents who are physicians…
Help Your Child Boost Their Premed GPA
Do you want to help your premed child get into med school…without having to nag or stress them out? This series has loads of concrete, actionable advice that will help your premed discover their competitive advantage and get Accepted! A low GPA is probably the hardest area to improve. This makes sense – it was years in the…
How to Help with Your Child’s Statement of Disadvantage
If your family has experienced any form of social, economic, or educational disadvantage – at any time in your child’s life – your child can apply to medical school as a disadvantaged applicant. To receive this designation means that your applicant will need to complete an additional essay on the AMCAS Application. The character limit…
How To Ruin Your Child’s Med School Personal Statement in 5 Easy Steps
Considering how much time and energy is focused on the personal statement for medical school, it can be difficult to know how to support your premed in the writing stages of the application. Since I’ve been speaking with lots of parents recently about personal statements, I would like to share what I’ve learned. If you…
How to Help Your Child During MCAT Preparation
Do you want to help your pre-med child get into med school…without having to nag or stress them out? This series has loads of concrete, actionable advice that will help your premed discover their competitive advantage and get accepted! The MCAT terrifies most students. Rightly so; it’s a grueling exam that requires enormous dedication while preparing…
Parents of Premeds: How Much Help is Too Much Help?
Do you want to help your pre-med child get into med school…without having to nag or stress them out? This series has loads of concrete, actionable advice that will help your premed discover their competitive advantage and get accepted! It can be nerve-wracking to determine how to best support your son or daughter during the application…
Parents of Premeds: How to Help Your Child Select Extracurricular Activities
Do you want to help your premed child get into med school…without having to nag or stress them out? This series has loads of concrete, actionable advice that will help your premed discover their competitive advantage and get accepted! Selecting extracurricular activities that will set your child’s application apart can seem overwhelming (for you and for your child). Below…
Parents of Premed Students: How Much Help is Too Much Help?
As a parent of a premed student dreaming of getting accepted to medical school, you probably wonder “How much help is too much help?” We’re pretty sure we’ve got just the resource for you… Here’s an excerpt from our new guide, Parents of Premeds: How to Help, on respecting boundaries during the admissions process: As…