As a prospective medical student, you will have many requirements on your plate. But your major and minor are up to you! We’ll walk you through factors to consider when selecting your college major and minor. Believe it or not, biology is not your only option!
Candidates should evaluate whether individual med schools are a good fit – and some of the factors to consider may surprise you! Give yourself time to think about what you want out of your med school experience.
Explore activities outside of medicine that help demonstrate to med school admissions your values and your character, beyond your academic achievements and your motivation to become a doctor.
Find out more about accelerated three-year medical school programs and whether this path might be right for you. What are the pros and cons of three-year med school programs?
If you are confused about restrictive and non-restrictive early admissions policies for college applications, you are not alone! We can answer many of your questions about the differences in ED (early decision), REA (restrictive early action), SCEA (single-choice early action), and EA (early action) policies among a selection of top colleges.
Meet Professor Mitchell Zandes, an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU), where he teaches an introductory course in nutrition to undergraduate students. Researching professors on your college list can help you decide if this school offers all of the opportunities that you are looking for!
How does Early Decision benefit students and colleges? What is the impact of Early Decision on Regular Decision admissions programs, and why are more colleges using Early Decision to fill almost half of their incoming classes? Find out the answers to all of these questions and more!
Take a look at this year’s trends from colleges’ early admissions cycle. From another year of high application numbers to consistently low admission rates, we’ve analyzed the stats at selective schools.
In Part II of this two-part blog series, we discuss application factors that impact med school admissions outcomes. Learn how your medical school list, essays, recommendations, and interviews, as well as the timing of your submission, all determine the competitiveness of your med school candidacy.
In Part I of this two-part blog series, we discuss background factors that impact med school admissions outcomes. Learn how your academic factors of GPA and MCAT; and experiential factors of clinical experience, shadowing, research, and non-clinical activities all determine the competitiveness of your med school candidacy.