strengthen my application

Hello! I am currently in my undergrad (c/o 2026) and I’m starting to get very scared for when it comes time to apply for vet school in two-three years (my IS is UC Davis). What can I do to strengthen my stats besides more veterinary hours (which I know I need). I’m also lacking in animal hours I...

The American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) has applicants manually enter all coursework and grades into the AMCAS application. You may wonder why they have you complete this seemingly repetitive and arduous section, given that they collect official copies of all transcripts. It...

The Reapplicant’s Guide to Med School Acceptance is now available free for on-demand viewing. This webinar covers the most common reasons for med school rejection; how to evaluate your primary and secondary applications objectively to see where you can improve; and more. If you are planning to...

In the final section of our Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Successseries, we’ll discuss how reapplicants should improve, and then present, their experiences. One last factor that can seriously hurt your chances is a lack of substantive, ongoing experiences. Medical schools want...

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you were rejected from med school this year and are planning to reapply, you can’t realistically expect a good result if you simply do the same thing again. Instead, you need...

In our last post, we talked about how to best present yourself in your secondaries and interviews. Today we’ll move forward and discuss ways to boost your GPA, another important feature of your med school application profile. Feeling a bit fragile after those intense last few blog posts? That’s...

With the multi-staged admissions process, applicants can make an impact at each step – or be weeded out. Your assessment continues by looking at other ways you communicated with the admissions committee, and whether or not they helped you past the next hurdle. Secondaries Your secondary essays...

I'm planning to strengthen my application for medical school and was looking into programs that will help me do that. I came across Georgetown University's Clinical Quality, Safety, and Leadership Executive Master's program. I wanted to know if this seems like a program that will strengthen my...