Timely Advice To Get You to Medical School

Table of Contents

1.) The September MCAT Push -- Should you really be applying to medical school this year if you're taking the Sept. MCAT?

2.) Get The Money You Need Now -- Concerned about how you're going to pay upwards of $160,000 if so you need to begin...

3.) How Well Do You Know Yourself -- You've been spending years getting ready to apply to medical school, but now it's time to evaluate yourself by...

4.) Students or Employees -- Simply, put are medical residents students or employees? The Supreme Court is going to decide because...

5.) DoctorPremed Updates -- We're about to go mobile and also get into the e-reader spectrum...

Last Month for MCAT

Individuals, who have not completed all aspects of their application are seriously encouraged to postpone their application until next year.

Why?

You are very far behind in the application cycle and it will be an uphill battle to gain an interview slot.

Don't Go $160,000 in Debt

Do not wait until you start interviewing or have your first medical school acceptance to begin looking for scholarships and grants to pay for medical school.

Begin now because the money is there, you need to be proactive about finding the available money, because it will make a considerable difference once it is time to pay back your medical school loans.

It is imperative that you begin now because many of the most competitive scholarships have early deadlines, well in-advance of spring when most students begin planning on how they will pay for medical school. Remember, virtually everything about medicine comes down to being first and early.

Know Yourself Better Than Everyone Else

You must know your application inside-out.

Spend some time now reviewing your AMCAS application, activities, work experiences, volunteering and be prepared to talk about each one at length and in detail.

In some cases, your interviewers are going to be reading your file during the interview and you never want to be in a position where they ask you to elaborate about something you wrote 5 months ago, but you cannot recall the details.

Knowing everything about yourself and what was submitted to each school is essential to doing well on a medical school interview. You're going to be nervous, in unfamiliar territory, and add undue pressure on yourself, so do everything now to give yourself your best chance of gaining admission to medical school.

As it was told to me awhile back, "If you make it to the interview stage, that means you are good enough to be admitted, but the admission committee just wants to verify you are who you say you are, and that there are no glaring social deficiencies."

Are Medical Residents Students or Employees?

Did you know the U.S. Department of the Treasury believes medical residents are not students because they work more than 40 hours a week.

The Dept. of Treasury, by making this designation wants to begin taxing medical residents on their stipends (used to cover basic living needs). This is a case that will not be over soon and as said before will be heading to the U.S. Supreme Court; directly affecting your future in medicine.

No one knows what the outcome will be but the AAMC and four other associations have just filed a brief on behalf of the Mayo Foundation and the University of Minnesota who will be standing before the court.

Friends in Medical School

Have your friends take a moment out of their day to share their medical school experience and choosing their specific medical school.

DoctorPremed Updates

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