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Looking for some general advice on creating a school list. I am a 26-year-old Texas resident with a 511 and retake 517 MCAT, 3.53 GPA, and a really... unideal 3.12 BCPM. Have since taken 3 courses via UCSD's extension program (that's 10 new credit hours of As) due to financial and full-time...

I am in a master's program to repair my poor undergraduate science GPA. This past semester, I took a pharmacokinetics course and got an A, but I recently learned that the AAMC excludes pharmacology courses in calculating BCPM GPA (see red box in the top-right): This is worrisome because I...

Disclaimer: Post was found in a bottle washed up on the mod team's private island. The AMCAS Application will be opening soon, and with it comes a ton of questions. The "Work and Activities" Section is probably the most talked-about section. For reference, here are three older threads that...

Hey guys! I've been doing a bit of battle-planning and would like feedback if possible. If anyone is able/willing to tell me if I'm headed in the right direction, I'd be more than appreciative. Thank you! 4th year student planning on graduating in June and then applying. (One gap year). 3.9...

Pretty much title, but I got one II-->A. I am so extremely grateful for the A but I am wondering when I should stop waiting on other schools and just go into AMCAS and just say "screw it imma commit." Ik they have the April 30 day, and the commit tool in June (correct me on this timeline if I am...

Hello all, So, I was told my research group has 6 pending abstracts/pubs under review (and 2 more just submitted). All these abstracts (4 of em) have been presented at national GI conferences and accepted to those. I am second author on 3 of them and third on the last one. I was looking at...

Historically, when a new medical school begins accepting applications late in the cycle (like how UGA will in February pending accreditation), what does the process look like since it is quite expedited? Do they still do secondary essays or do they send interview invites based on the primary? If...

Long story short, I was arrested recently but my case, under NYS, has been dismissed and sealed. I’m wondering how this might affect me later down the line for residency and licensing. I understand so far that AMCAS asks only about convictions (and they state explicitly not to include dismissed...

Hi, I'm really struggling with this and don't have anybody else to ask, so I would really appreciate some advice. When a school has the optional "Anything else?" question, I don't know if I should focus on explaining my grades or doing a Why Us answer, assuming they haven't been addressed in...

Hello, For my secondary, I was thinking about the following two paths I could take: I volunteered as an EMT but was shy due to my cultural upbringing. I quit and let my certification lapse. During COVID, I re-earned my certification and embraced that discomfort by returning to my old EMS...

Title. I obviously sincerely want to do research as a med student—I want to hit the ground running as an M1 actually—but it feels hard to substantiate this interest in secondaries since I have literally no experience to speak of. If I have other strengths to my application that I could tie into...

Okay, so this is a really weird problem. I transferred schools before my junior year, and I'll just say I transferred from School A to School B. I put in all the AP credit I have on my School A official transcript into AMCAS like normal, but strangely, my School B official transcript does not...

Hello, I’m a current psychology and neuroscience major who recently switched into pre-med. I’m a little late switching into this, and I was recently shocked to learn that some psych courses can be used towards the science GPA for AMCAS. I had always thought it was pretty much solely based on...

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...

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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!