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The earlier you interview, the more spots are open. So the greater are your chances. Unless that is, if the school has non-rolling admissions.

I just PM'd you.

I applied there this past year and was accepted. I really liked the school. It is located in Burlington, which is a nice college town. There is everything in the town (from bars to bookstores). The people at the school are super nice. They do take a lot of out of staters. I would defintely...

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As long as the person who writes it sends the letter, it should not be a problem to add an additional letter. Although, you might want to send a school a brief letter stating that you are adding an additional letter to your file from________

Ask about the demographics of the population which the school serves. For me, diversity is really important. So I usually asked this question. Although, this is assuming that your interviewer is an MD.

You'd enter the AP in under the summer of the year you graduated from high school and went into college. So lets say I was class of 1996 for my high school. Then I'd enter the AP under "Summer of 1996" in the AMCAS. So then that also means you started your first term of freshman year on the...

Don't forget to pack an umbrella. It might be raining the day of your interview or even snowing (later on in the season). Good Luck! :)

Relax......just call up AMCAS and see what they say. Good Luck!

You can just simply let a doctor know that you are thinking of applying to medical school and that you would like to shadow him and get a better perspective on the life of a physician. Doctors are usually really open to it. Good Luck :)

My school sent a packet as well. So I too did not have committee letters. Now lets suppose you have 5 letters in your file. The way it worked at my school was that all 5 letters went out, regardless of if a school only wanted 3. So I couldn't choose 3 out of the 5 to send out. All 5 went out. So...

Think about it like this.......... What do you have (personal skills, etc) that you can contribute to the educational environment at Keck? For example, you might be a person is a good "team player" who cooperates with his/her classmates. So you could contribute this to the...

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Defintely apply. I've never heard of that before. But you should really apply. Add them on.

It's not that it is "illegal" to forward your transcripts to schools, it is just that schools don't want to be swamped with a load of transcripts from applicants. However, if a school asks you to send a transcript, then it is okay. The only reason you don't send transcripts to schools is that...