Does a $2,525 AMCAS Editing service make a difference?

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If you did your application in advance and got feedback from career specialist and health professions advisor, which work for free (not technically free since it is paid from your student fees) you're fine.
 
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Obviously no amount of money will buy you GPA/MCAT. If you do have good enough numbers though, I actually do think the consulting probably improves your app in other ways - helps you figure out your "narrative", high quality essays and activity descriptions, etc.

Worth $2500? Not to most people. But if you're from a very wealthy family, as many medical students are, then sure it's probably worth it if writing up your selling points isn't your strong suit.
 
Good God. That has to be one of the biggest wastes of money I've ever seen. Are they affiliated with SDN? Even if my dad was Bill Gates I wouldn't spend $2500 for someone to edit my application for anything.
 
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A fool and his money are soon parted
 
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Good God. That has to be one of the biggest wastes of money I've ever seen. Are they affiliated with SDN? Even if my dad was Bill Gates I wouldn't spend $2500 for someone to edit my application for anything.
I dunno man. Think of the families that don't even blink at paying for multiple $250,000 private college educations for their children. Two grand to feel certain their kid didn't **** up their essays? 100% worth when you have that kind of wealth.
 
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I dunno man. Think of the families that don't even blink at paying for multiple $250,000 private college educations for their children. Two grand to feel certain their kid didn't **** up their essays? 100% worth when you have that kind of wealth.

$2,525 is chump change for some of the applicants.
 
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I found out last week that an application I screened was purchased/edited for about that amount.
It was actually awful.

I'm curious...how did you find out that an applicant's application was not truly done by him/her?
 
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I found out last week that an application I screened was purchased/edited for about that amount.
It was actually awful.
Awful as in lacking substance/person had no ECs? Or awful like it was written badly, confusing/no narrative?
 
Awful as in lacking substance/person had no ECs? Or awful like it was written badly, confusing/no narrative?
Or maybe awful as in.. Things won't turn out well for that applicant.

I still don't get how you can possibly detect that (at least before an interview) unless the person gave a shout out to the editing service at the end of his app.
 
I still don't get how you can possibly detect that (at least before an interview) unless the person gave a shout out to the editing service at the end of his app.
I couldn't tell from the ap.
Her father bragged about how much he spent on it to one of my colleagues.
 
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I dunno man. Think of the families that don't even blink at paying for multiple $250,000 private college educations for their children. Two grand to feel certain their kid didn't **** up their essays? 100% worth when you have that kind of wealth.
I'm not so sure. Regardless of how much money you have, that's still spending $2500 on something that's literally free. I'd bet that you would get the same (if not better) comments and revisions from people that offer to review essays on SDN. At least if you're spending lots of money on the fancy college, the fancy college provides something that they value (prestige or whatever) that they could not obtain without the money.

But hey, if there are people buying this, I'll throw my hat in the ring. I'll just list all of the medical schools where my friends whose essays I edited go and use them as success story examples, charge $2500 for the standard package, and $5000 for the premium package. Money back guaranteed if they don't get into a medical school (I'll make sure they send an application to the Caribbean so I never have to give the money back). That should be a good supplement to my income!
 
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