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Path to Medical School Part 3: Pre-Med Advising
Please read part 1 and part 2 before reading part 3: As an underclassman, I really wondered about everyone else. What were their GPA’s? For the people who took their MCAT’s, what were their scores? What kind of extracurricular activities…
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Extracurriculars
Path to Medical School Part 2: Pre-Med Volunteering
Please read part 1 before reading part 2: For some reason, people seem to think that grades during freshman year of college do not matter. Maybe this attitude at my school stemmed from the fact that for college admissions, University…
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Path to Medical School Part 1
To be completely honest, my initial decision to become a doctor was a relatively arbitrary thing. Near the end of my junior year and beginning of my senior year in high school, I was thinking a great deal about what…
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The Importance of Mentorship
While I was eating lunch with him, my research mentor, who is a renowned urologist, said to me, “I always learned from the person who was one step ahead of me.” This meant when he was an underclassmen, he learned…
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Time Management as a Pre-Med
Time management is everyone’s problem. In modern times, the difficulty has become “so much to do but so little time”. A lack of time management can lead to stress, anxiety and lack of sleep, which ultimately has a detrimental effect…
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Applying to Medical School
Dropping Pre-Med Because of One Bad Semester
According to AAMC, the average GPA and MCAT of a U.S. medical school matriculant in the 2022-23 application cycle is 3.75 and 512 respectively. These statistics are pretty high given the fact that 3.75 is pretty much an A average.…
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Does Ethnicity Matter for Medical School Applications?
Does ethnicity matter for medical school applications? It is a simple question but a very complicated one. In 1978, Justice Powell, speaking on the case The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, declared that race would be a…
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Is It Worth Going on Medical Mission Trips?
Medical mission trips sound impressive. Spending a couple weeks in a third world country and providing health care seems much more meaningful than volunteering at a “boring” clinic in the U.S. It is also enticing to think that going on…
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Pre-Med Academics
Five Steps to a Better GPA
Like many of you reading this article, I am not a genius. I may have above average intelligence but by no means could I rely on my natural intelligence to excel during undergrad. Therefore, I needed to study hard and…
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