Get In Next Time: Our Top Recommendations For Fixing Your Application
Med school admissions is a numbers game. Here’s how to increase your chances for the … Read more
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Watch: AAMC 4th Annual Virtual Medical School Fair Workshops
On Feb. 21, the AAMC hosted its fourth annual Virtual Fair where more than 9,000 … Read more
Choosing a Medical School As A URM Student
Congratulations! You survived the MCAT, AMCAS, secondaries, interviews, and months of waiting. If this cycle … Read more
Second Looks and Fantasy Gap Years
As CCOM’s second-look day (which we call Get Acquainted Day) approaches, Aline Sandouk, LJ Agostinelli, … Read more
Is Your Previous Career A Strike Against You?
Admissions committees care most about what you got out of your experiences, less about what … Read more
How To Find a Health Professional To Shadow
Applying to a health professional education program is a significant decision. Schools will want to … Read more
AAMC Fee Assistance Program: What’s New in 2019
The cost of preparing for and applying to medical school can be daunting. At the … Read more
The One About Trigonometry | MCAT Tips and Tricks
I’m guessing that by this point in your MCAT preparation you feel like you’ve parked … Read more
Staying Organized for Success in Research
Close your eyes for a second and picture the last research lab you were in. … Read more
Unit Conversions In Eight Easy Steps | MCAT Tips and Tricks
Unit conversion questions are so common on the MCAT that they deserve their own post. … Read more
Considering the Physician Assistant Path
When thinking about a career in medicine, those who are leaning towards getting an MD … Read more
How To Develop Interpersonal Communication Skills For Better Interview Performance
“When I reviewed the interview performance of over 200 students who applied to our training … Read more
How To Demonstrate Service Orientation
Medical school admissions committees look at many different factors that go beyond your grades and … Read more
3 New Year’s Resolutions for 2019 Medical School Applicants
Though New Year’s resolutions have the reputation of falling by the wayside come February, they … Read more
Quickly Calculate Logarithms Without a Calculator | MCAT Tips and Tricks
Logarithms are one of the most difficult math topics on the MCAT because many of … Read more
How The Humanities Make Us Better Physicians
At the end of sophomore year in college, I punched in my biology and chemistry … Read more
How to Discuss Volunteer Experiences Without Sounding Problematic
Welcome back to Equity Matters, the monthly column exploring a range of topics related to … Read more
Five Myths about Applying to Canadian Medical Schools
Premed (and even high school) life can be full of rumors about medical school admissions. … Read more
Finding a Research Project that Fits Like a Glove
Welcome to “Research for the Rest of Us”, a column about navigating the complex intricacies … Read more
King Henry What?? | MCAT Tips and Tricks
An awesome trick for remembering metric prefixes and converting between units in the metric system … Read more