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Hello! Dr. Rachel Rizal here from Cracking Med School Admissions. I know you are hard at work filling out your medical school applications! I am here to help every step of the way! :) I'm holding office hours this Thursday so you can come ask me any questions you have about medical school...

How do I build a solid school list? / Please help refine my school list Overall GPA: 3.80 Science GPA: 3.72 MCAT score: 517 (129, 128, 128, 132) State of Residence: TX Undergrad Attended: TAMU Major: Biology (B.S.) Minority? No Reapplicant? Yes Nontrad? Yes (gap year) Shadowing Experience...

TCOM Pros TX resident so lower COA (59K) closer to home (fort worth) and family lower cost of living already familiar with the area solid 2025 match results, possibly comparable to mid-tier MD schools, so competitive fields aren’t off the table Cons not interested in OMM double board exams...

So as of right now, I have all 15 activities slots filled up. But, I will be starting my MA gap year job this May/June so I was hoping to include it as a slot. I do have a previous MA job listed so I don't know if I should just mention my new job in that slot or replace one of my other...

You’ve probably read about the multifaceted requirements of medical school admission. If so, this post is an attempt to, first, demystify them a bit and, second, untangle one of the least understood ones. The price of admission begins with an excellent GPA and MCAT score. Most applicants have...

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I just wanted to make sure that if I can reuse the same essay or at least the foundation of it for the CCOM and AZCOM secondary “why do you believe AZCOM can provide the osteopathic education…” ? I’m worried because they are affiliated with the...

I accidentally filled out my AMCAS Activity for my work in my lab and its a pretty big difference. I've worked in the lab for more than 1000 hours over the last three years but on my information says I only worked there for 8 months for 150 hours. I took research for credit in the lab for two...

I just realized that I have my name on a poster for my research lab in a neurosurgery department. Is that something I should have included on my AMCAS application? I am the second author on it, but I have already submitted AMCAS and TMDSAS along with 19 secondaries. I didn't include it...

1. What is the AMCAS application? AMCAS stands for the American Medical College Application Service, which is a centralized application service available through the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). It allows candidates to apply to multiple allopathic (MD) medical schools using a...

Having worked in admissions for over two decades, I have read thousands of activity descriptions for medical school and related healthcare fields. Some candidates seem to view this element of their application as less important than their personal statement, writing only cursory descriptions of...

I am planning to submit my apps and would like to know how much material I can reuse from last year, if I only had submitted a primary, but not secondaries? Last cycle, I had submitted my primary but withdrew prior to submitting secondaries due to personal reasons and it being late in the cycle...

Somehow, where AMCAS asks for “Contact Title”, I put down Dr., Mrs., or Mr. for every single one of my activity references. For some reason I thought it was asking for salutations for when they contacted these people. This is where their job title should have been. I should’ve read the applicant...

Somehow the format of my activities section got messed up and one of my extracurriculars has no description at all???? I want to send a letter to schools and give them some sort of description considering that experience gave me some clinical hours. When should I send that letter? Is it too...

Hi Folks, I'm in need of some advice: Like most, I have a list of 6 LORs that were supposed to go into my pre-health department's letter packaging system. In addition to this, I have a handful of letters meant to go to specific schools. One in particular, my most notable, is going to one of my...

If you are a medical school applicant with the goal of matriculating in the fall of 2025, it is time to submit your primary application! The American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) opened on May 1, 2024, and fully completed applications can now be submitted (as of May 28, 2024)...

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Hello! I know that when you have all your AP credit lumped together on your official transcript, AMCAS lets you either keep it lumped or list each AP out and distribute the credit hours. For the second option, they want the course name formatted to be "AP Credit: Calculus" etc. I realized after...

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Hi -- I'm new to SDN but I was just wanting to get an idea of the severity of my misconduct. I'm in my freshman year of undergrad. I made a mistake, and lied about getting an assignment in to my professor before a certain date when I hadn't. The professor caught me out and filed a report on me...

Howdy! I'm not sure if the general forum is the "right" place to put this (my apologies if not), but I've been doing some pre-writing, and I've found that I'm often pleased with my first draft, with some changes as needed. Considering that I probably had a dozen drafts of my PS (and it took...

*Please don't quote!* Hi all, Filling out AMCAS and came across "Childhood Information." It asks for the area where we spent the majority of our life from birth to age eighteen. The thing is, I grew up moving around a lot (non-military), and the most I have lived in places prior to 18 was 3.5...

Hello! I recently graduated, but requested my transcript after getting my spring grades and before commencement. My transcript was marked as "received" the day of commencement. Based the date of degree conferral listed on my unofficial transcript, I believe the version sent to AMCAS has my...

I took CASPER already and am thinking that I no longer want to apply to a school that I marked for distribution (my understanding is that you can't undo this once you've taken the test)- is this OK?

Hello everyone, I'm currently in the process of writing my Work/Activities section and I have some questions (I'm an international student and I have no access to any particular advising so google/reddit/SDN are my only sources of information about the process). I didn't think about the AMCAS...

Do you have a dream school, the one place you’ve always wanted to study medicine, and no other school will do? Do you have a compelling reason for attending this one particular program? Maybe your spouse’s job requires them to be in this location, or your only living family member is in the...

Greetings everyone, I would like some advice regarding a potential institutional action that may or may not need to be disclosed on my AMCAS application for this 2025 cycle. So, during winter break this past year I had an electric kettle with a detachable kettle in my dorm. This kettle was...

Thank you for all the help!

I did poorly in 2 classes named "evolution of animal behavior" and "principles of evolution". By poorly, I mean I received Cs for these classes. My university does not put subject indicators in front of course codes, for example it will just say "269:304" instead of a typical "BIOL 101" for...

I am thinking of taking an art class and 2 more classes to boost my gpa one last time. But I don’t want it to hinder my chances of getting a medical school interview. I’m not sure if medical schools require that they receive all my transcripts before they invite me for an interview?

After working with 300+ students to develop and submit their applications, I watch students do the stupidest things (e.g. “I want to write a secondary about how I grew up rich and how I’m proud of it and don’t think I should hide it” – his exact words by the way). I also witness incredible...

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The reason for the lower cumulative GPA is that while I started to show an upward trend after my sophomore year, I gained 2 Fs in the summer after sophomore year. This is due to me having to go to India to care for my parents and sister because they were all hospitalized and bedridden, which...

I was just accepted to a DO school, but I am waiting to hear back from 20 other MD schools. The acceptance requires that I send a deposit and sign an agreement to attend within a few days. If I accept this agreement, but get accepted to an MD school and say yes to that one too, what will...

I've applied to 24 medical schools this cycle from a broad list. Using MCAT of 518, I applied to 25% of schools at <25th percentile, 50% between 25th and 75th, and 25% at >75th. So far, I've gotten 0 IIs, 0 A, and so far 6 pre-II rejections. Here is my list: R Boston University Aram V...

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Hello, I applied to 28 MD, submitting my secondaries 2-3 weeks after receiving them, so I was finished around early-mid August. I was planning on applying to 3-5 DO schools to have more options, since my stats are mid. Honestly, I was more focused on the 28 MD at the beginning of the summer and...

Hello, I am wondering if there are any good guidelines to LOIs, as I am considering sending some to schools who have not responded back to me post secondaries. Granted, its still pretty early into the application cycle but I am getting a bit worried as I have not heard back from any schools...

What are my chances for the 2023-2024 cycle. I applied already but have not received any interviews yet so someone on edit told me to post here. I have: MCAT: 517 (Chm/Phy : 128 CARRS: 129 Bio/Biochem: 129 Psych/Soc: 131) overall GPA: 3.8 BCPM GPA: 3.77 FL resident

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While filling out my first secondary, I realized that for one of my gen chem prereqs I forgot to write 'and lab' in the name (i.e. it just says "General Chemistry II ... (4 credit hours)" instead of "General Chemistry II and lab") and I'm worried schools might think I only took 1 lab semester. I...