During my freshman year, I made several mistakes and encountered tragedies that made it difficult to recover both academically and emotionally. However, after graduating and being excited about my younger sister going away to college this fall, I wanted to help her find success as a freshman and a future pre-medical student. Although my sister [...]

Pre-meds frequently make mistakes that put their chances of gaining acceptance to medical school at risk. Below, I have summarized the most common missteps I have seen over the last decade first as a Harvard pre-med tutor and now as an admissions consultant. All of these errors, or “deadly sins,” can be avoided with a [...]

The medical school admissions process can be complicated and takes careful consideration of the amount of time required to dedicate to completing prerequisites, the MCAT, the primary and secondary application process, the interview, and the final acceptance into medical school. The application process itself begins in May the year before expected matriculation. This is the [...]

This is a reaction post to “Is Physician “Shadowing” a Shady Practice?“, an article written by Elizabeth Kitsis, M.D. a bioethics professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Photo Credit: University of Florida Arts in Medicine Program I shadowed physicians as a pre-medical student but not as a high-school student because I believed that was [...]

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! If your raison d’être is currently a textbook or some condensed notes, it’s understandable. I, on the other hand, could not help but get into the spirit and find some special gifts to celebrate a love of human anatomy and creativity! This list is for those people who [...]