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Admission Tips & Secrets

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Life lessons through Medical School Interviews
By Yash Kamani The interview. It is often the most feared aspect of any application process. Student upon student will share horror stories; and prospective students spend days prepping for what will inevitably take only a few hours to complete. …
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Dealing with Stress During the Medical School Application Process
By: Ziggy Yoediono, MD MBA I’m not here to tell you that the medical school application process shouldn’t be stressful. It is stressful because it requires a lot of time, effort and money for something that will impact your life.…
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SPOTLIGHT SERIES – Ophthalmology
By: Ziggy Yoediono MD MBA Dr. Y is a third-year resident in ophthalmology. Why did you choose your specialty? Randomly! Ophthalmology was not on my radar until my best friend urged me to look into it after I could not…
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Applying to Medical School

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Remembering Who We are
By Matthew Welzenbach As your resume builds and you go further along in your medical training, it is easy to become ‘jaded’ with the medical profession. In medical school, USMLE exams are these monsters that everyone is simply trying to…
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If at first you don’t succeed, keep on trying
By Dakota Buhrman 67. 67 is the number of rejections I received over the course of two application cycles to medical school. Right around rejection letter number 30, I started to field questions from concerned friends and family members. They…
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Extracurricular activities during college: should I aim for breadth or depth?
By Nick Deebel This is a question I am frequently asked. In addition to possessing a strong undergraduate GPA and MCAT score, U.S. medical schools desire and expect to see well-rounded applicants. It shows them that you are a well-rounded…
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Tips for Acing the Medical School Interview
By Jen Lee Medical schools receive hundreds of applications per year, and admission committees have the difficult task of sorting through portfolios of many qualified candidates to find those they would like to get to know through in-person interviews. So what…
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3 Tips for Convincing a Med School That They Are ‘The One”
By Sofia Charania After the preliminary AMCAS application is submitted, schools will send secondary applications to students they are interested in. When filling out these secondary applications and when preparing for interviews, it is REALLY important to make sure that…
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Letters of Recommendation 101
By Ryan Karmouta MD, MBA If you’re reading this, you’ve worked hard in your classes, have taken the MCAT, and are almost ready to put your best foot forward for medical schools. But there’s this murky, unclear process: the letters. …
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Alternative Paths

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How I Decided to Become an Anthropology Major as a Pre-Med Student
By: Ariel Lee Going into college, I knew I wanted to be a pre-med student. I still remember scrolling through the list of required courses for the pre-med track on my school website in my freshman year. I compared this…
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