Walking You Through the Med School Application Timeline | Premed Workshop
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2020
- Today, I'm sharing the video from a premed workshop I hosted in Denver recently. In it, you'll hear my advice to a room of premeds on how to approach the application cycle-an overview of the timeline. Month by month, what should you be doing as an applicant to medical school?
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In this video, I cover what you should be doing each month of the med school application cycle. I cover how rolling admissions affects this process, and I specifically discuss:
• How Interfolio works for collecting your letters of rec and getting them uploaded to each of the application services at the right time.
• What constitutes a completed application and what allows the med schools to start actually reviewing your application (you need to get your secondaries and your MCAT score in!).
• When the applications are actually sent to the medical schools (from AMCAS and AACOMAS).
• What it means to apply "early decision" to medical school and whether you should do it.
• When the DO acceptances and MD acceptances each start going out to students.
• The common costs of applying to medical school and interviewing.
• The kinds of financial assistance you can get from FAP for MD and DO applications. (I also mention the premed scholarship I run: premedscholarship.com/.)
• The rule of thumb for how many letters of recommendation you need, and who to get them from.
• Whether you can use the same letters of rec you used last year (if you applied and didn't get
accepted).
After covering those topics, we sit down for some more general premed Q&A, and I share:
• One thing you to start doing NOW as a premed-even if you're not applying for a few years-that is, start collecting stories. Keep a journal of your clinical experiences, your research experiences, and other activities on your path. Keep track of experiences you have and why they matter to you!
• How to approach the personal statement and common mistakes students make, including how to address red flags and whether you need a DO-specific personal statement.
* Why you need shadowing and the purpose it serves-even as a nurse, PA, or other experienced healthcare worker.
• If it matters whether your clinical experience is paid or volunteer.
Whenever this guy pops up on my feed - my anxiety escalates lol
Literally was trying to find info on this for the past few days and was so overwhelmed. Thank you for this!!!
you're welcome!
Golden advice. Early preparation is definitely underrated! Verification can take a longgg time.
Wow! Thank you so much for this timeline! It helped clear a lot of things and gave me a heads-up on things that I did not know were coming.
Man i wish this video was longer !! Im just now starting undergrad and i really want to be prepared for my medical school application 😭 i know im stressing way to early but im toooo exciteddd
You’re a lifesaver
I admire your videos and & thank you so much for your guidance
thanks! :)
This is soooooooo helpful!!!
You mentioned that there are ways to waive the parental income requirement. Do you have any information on this specifically?
So if do applications dont get sent out until mid june, is it more beneficial to get them in early may than mid june? Or is there no advantage there?
For the primary applications, is there only one essay prompt per school or will each individual school choose how many essays to do/different topics to do?
You mentioned that there are ways to waive the parental income requirement. Do you have any information on this specifically?
you need to contact AAMC directly and ask them for the process.
Hey Doc. Where can I stay updated on when and where you host these workshops?
my email list or our Facebook group at premedhangout.com
I have a 3.5 gpa and I’m not sure if I should still apply to school that require a higher gpa.
May I take/pass the Mcat a year before the application?
I was a student athlete for 5 years and found my love of medicine a little late after an injury I had sustained. My GPA isn't the greatest, but I have always had an affinity for science. What should I do?
Also, the volunteering bit at the end looked like some really important information for me, but it got cut off, so do you mind expanding on what I should do with the 500 hours of random volunteering I had done over the years?
You can do SMP if your GPA really needs help. But if it’s a 3.2 ish you can score high on the MCAT and definitely get into DO school. Or some MD schools. That’s just what I’ve read tho