Work Experience
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Admission Tips & Secrets
How to curate killer extracurriculars (aka: do what you love and you won’t work a day of undergrad)
By: Mandy Gleason, MD As a senior resident, I do doctor things every day. So when I interview med school…
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Admission Tips & Secrets
Excelling at Extracurriculars During Freshman Year
At some point during the start of your freshman year, you will attend your school’s student activities fair and when…
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Applying to Medical School
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…
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Applying to Residency
Things I wish I knew before the 4th year of medical school
By: Sarju Panchal, PharmD The goal of any medical student is to find the specialty that they love and will…
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Extracurriculars
How To Get a Research Position For Gap Year
Doing research during your gap year is one of the best ways to not only prepare yourself for medical school…
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Admission Tips & Secrets
Do Something Different Before Medical School
By: Tianyu Liu According to the AAMC, the average age of medical school applicants in 2016-2017 was 24 for women…
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Articles
The Medical School Dream
“My dream is to get into medical school and become a doctor.” This line is repeated in some form or…
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Alternative Paths
Perspective on Gap Years from a Third Year Medical Student
Whether you are planning to apply straight to medical school or to take a gap year, Emily offers a perspective…
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Applying to Medical School
Benefits of Undergraduate Medical Research
As a freshman in college, I had no idea what research entailed. My idea of research was spending hours slaving…
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Alternative Paths
Nursing to Medicine
My decision to pursue nursing before becoming a doctor was logical: my mother had been a nurse, I would enter…
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