medical school admissions

Do you struggle with finding the perfect opening line for your Personal Statement? Do you want to know how to avoid the most common mistakes that make your hook boring or cliché? In this article, we will share with you some tips and examples on how to generate expert ideas for your hook that will grab the reader’s attention and showcase your personality. Whether you have an unusual background, a meaningful impact, a strong passion, or something else, we will help you find the best way to connect your story to your future goals. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to write a hook that will make your Personal Statement stand out from the crowd!

Are you applying to graduate school and feeling overwhelmed by the process? Do you want to avoid the common pitfalls that can ruin your chances of getting accepted? If so, you need to read this article by a former admissions officer who reveals the biggest mistakes students make in their applications. From temporal discounting to procrastination, from avoiding weaknesses to over-focusing on them, from bungling the writing process to failing to plan for the gap year, this article covers it all. You will learn how to identify your own weaknesses, make a realistic plan, and stand out from the crowd. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the expert and get closer to your dream school. Read the article now and make your application count!

Imagine being a pre-med student in Grant, Nebraska. There are no physicians in your city, the closest clinic is miles away, and you have no connections with anyone in the healthcare field. But your dream is to go to medical school, and all of them require shadowing hours, something you simply don’t have the luxury of pursuing. Physician shadowing is often considered to be one of the most important things a pre-med student can do to prepare for applications and get real-world experience. But while shadowing can be an incredible asset, it’s not always feasible for every pre-med. 

Canceled MCATs; online coursework; in-person shadowing restrictions; virtual interviewing - COVID-19 undoubtedly shifted the medical school admissions process in 2020 and created unprecedented challenges for pre-meds. But how will it impact medical school admissions moving forward? What will COVID-19’s legacy be in the 2021-2022 cycle?

Selecting medical schools that fit your goals and credentials is one of the most significant decisions during the admissions process. After all, having a well thought out list of medical schools will make a difference between being denied acceptance or becoming a first year at your dream school. So what tools are out there to help you create your list of medical schools? Well, we can tell you this right off the bat: it’s NOT just the MSAR!

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You already know this, but it's, like, HARD to get into med school, y'know? I don't want to dwell on the obvious, but looking at the percentages can help us learn lessons about how many schools you should apply to.

Last week, we looked at how to research med schools properly in order to help improve your chances of getting in. To recap, med schools only want to accept you if you would choose their medical school, even if you’re accepted to another school on your list.

On its face, it looks like DO schools are harder to get into than MD schools (their overall acceptance rate is 7 points lower). So what's happening in the data?

Last week, we looked at a probability-based model for how many med schools to apply to. We learned that because each medical school accepts so few students, you should apply to enough schools to give yourself a good enough chance of getting into at least one school.

If you're like most applicants to medical school, you're just not that diverse. You are racially or ethnically over-represented. You didn't face many particular hardships growing up, and you haven't had enough life experiences to make you different from the thousands of others applying to med school. That means you'll have to get creative in how you answer this question.

I decided to pursue medicine because of the enlightenment attained on my five-month backpacking yoga meditation in the Himalayas. While the idea of patient care is nice, the enlightenment of medicine is far more intriguing

Imagine you’re a college professor, practicing physician, or busy working professional. Sometime in spring, you receive an email - it’s Johnny or Jessica Pre-med - some young excited face you can barely picture.

“Ivy-Covered University is my top choice, because it's good for pre-med.”I've heard this sentence countless times from high school seniors - and their parents - who believe the conventional wisdom: that there's a list of schools that are good places to be pre-med. Attending one of these schools will supposedly make your medical school dreams come true.

In recent weeks, we at Savvy Pre-med have explained the 5 Necessary Factors for Getting into Medical School and the 5 Characteristics of the Most Successful Pre-meds. But now we’ve arrived at an important question -- how does your choice of undergraduate college affect these factors?