Will you be applying to medical school this cycle? Even though it’s only April and the AMCAS application (medical school’s primary application) does not open until June, there are many actions you can take right now to ensure timely submission of an outstanding application. 1. Download the AMCAS Worksheet Though the AAMC does not open [...]

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 [...]

It shouldn’t. Do you know why? It’s because you’re never too old to follow your dreams. If you can still dream, you can still achieve. Some people may feel discouraged by their age while applying to medical school and statistics prove that not all applicants are traditional, as in they started applying to medical school [...]