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What's one of the biggest mistakes made by medical school applicants? Let's take a hard look at clinical experience and your motivations for med school! Links: Full Episode Blog Post Meded Media Application Renovation Apply to Application Renovation PMY 241: Third Application Cycle was a Charm for This Premed PMY 171: Reapplying to Med School: What You Need to Know to Improve AAMC Applicant and Matriculant Data Premed Assessment The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement Five Ways to Gain Clinical Experience Without Shadowing

The medical school application is a long and grueling process. If you've been rejected, haven't heard anything, or are confused, listen to this podcast episode! Links: Full Episode Blog Post BoardVitals team@medicalschoolhq.ne Facebook Premed Hangout MedEd Media Network The MCAT Podcast OldPreMeds Podcast MCAT CARS Podcast Session 171: Reapplying to Med School – What You Need to Know to Improve Session 231: Third Application Cycle was a Charm for this Premed! The Premed Playbook: Guide to Medical School Personal Statement The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Interview store.medicalschoolhq.net

Applying to medical school is hard. Needing to reapply is even harder. Where do you start? What do you have to redo? That's what our question is today. Links: Full Episode Blog Post Nontrad Premed Forum MCAT CARS Podcast PMY 171: Reapplying to Med School: What You Need to Know to Improve

This week, from OPM, our poster wants to know how important research is if he's only applying to state schools that aren't research heavy medical schools. Links: Full Episode Blog Post MedEd Media OldPreMeds.org The Premed Years Podcast Episode 171: Reapplying to Med School – What You Need to Know to Improve

Session 57 In this episode, Ryan takes a question directly from the OldPreMeds.org forums and delivers the answer right here to you. Today's scenario is a perfect example of why grades can't get you an acceptance to medical school. OldPreMeds Question of the Week: The poster is 32 years old dropped out of high school when he was 18; developed weird health issues in his 20's that got him obsessed with biochemistry and medicine; went back to school at 26 and graduated from a community college with 4.0 GPA.; about to graduate from the University of Michigan with BS in Biochemistry with 3.97 GPA. The poster originally wanted to get a PhD in Biochemistry but decided to go for an MD. He spent the summer studying for the MCAT and took it on August 20 and got a 515. His biggest issue is his extracurricular with not a lot of volunteer experience but did quite a bit for a nonprofit donating free pet food to animal rescue groups, zero research experience, and very few shadowing hours. He has not been rejected from all of the schools he applied to but in the event he gets rejected, what should be done? Poster is afraid he'll be too old to make medical school financially worth it. Here are the insights from Ryan: From PhD to MD: Why? You have to figure out a story about why the shift from wanting to be a PhD to an MD. Taking the MCAT on August 20: This is a big red flag because this means you didn't get your score back until late September. 515 is a great score but not getting your MCAT in until late September would mean your application was not complete until that time. By that point, several schools have already looked at all the applications and saving a few spots for the last few that come in which are stellar applications. Extracurriculars: One of the major reasons students are rejected is the lack of clinical experience. When you combine this lack of clinical experience with not telling your story well enough about why you just randomly decided to switch to an MD, schools may be concerned about your desires and motives to be a physician. Major takeaway from this episode: You need to do a better job at telling your story. You need to get more clinical experience and be around sick patients. They need to truly understand why you switched from wanting to get a PhD to an MD. Tell that story. Get that experience. Then reapply next year. Your MCAT score will still be good and you won't be as old. Links and Other Resources: The Premed Years Podcast Session 171: Reapplying to Med School - What You Need to Know to Improve The Premed Years Podcast Session 217 www.medicalschoolhq.net

Session 54 In this episode, Ryan talks about how you can improve your medical school application where he touches on some points such as postbac courses, clinical experience, and international clinical volunteering. Your questions, answered here on the OldPreMeds Podcast. Ryan again dives into the forums over at OldPreMeds.org where you can ask questions, get answers, and participate with other students. OldPreMeds Question of the Week: Poster has the following credentials: 3.0 undergrad GPA 3.8 Master's GPA in Health Administration 28 on old MCAT (now studying for a year and hopes to get a 510+ on the new one 3+ years of research experience as a lab technician for a medical school but they have a 3.25 undergrad GPA cutoff 2 shadowing experiences Clinical volunteering with 3-week international trip and 25 hours in emergency department This student is taking some postbac courses this upcoming semester including advanced biochem and advanced genetics and maybe an O chem retake. How can you best utilize my time to improve my application when you work full time and you're planning to apply this upcoming cycle entering 2018 class? Here are the insights from Ryan: Master's degrees don't really have a huge effect on your application especially Health Administration GPA because it's not a "hard sciences." More postbac classes, better undergrad GPA Look into taking more postbac classes to help boost your undergrad GPA. Remember, postbac classes are undergrad GPA courses so they would affect your undergrad GPA. These would be listed separately in the application but they will be combined into your compete undergrad GPA. Shadowing experiences and clinical volunteering Two shadowing experiences wouldn't be a lot unless they are long term. You need a good 25-30 hours of shadowing or a little bit more as a minimum. International trip is okay although a lot of medical schools don't really like international clinical volunteering. It's actually debatable whether it helps your application or not because it's seen as unnecessary. More than your stats Your application is much more than just your stats since it includes everything about you.. Your personal statement is huge as well as your extracurriculars and how you described them. Major takeaway from this episode: Get enough clinical experience. Get a great MCAT score. Think about some more classes to bump up your undergrad GPA. Links and Other Resources: The Premed Years Session 171: Reapplying to Med School - What You Need to Know to Improve OldPreMeds.org

Session 19 Your questions, answered here on the OldPreMeds Podcast. Ryan and Rich again dive into the forums over at OldPreMeds.org where they pull a question and deliver the answers right on to you. This is a common question for non traditional students who have to juggle time taking care of family, test prep, classes, and so many other things that some of them might even get left out. OldPreMeds Question of the Week: Finished undergrad with a double major in English Literature and Spanish Language; decent GPA; struggled in the Science prerequisites; not getting a lot of volunteering and shadowing done. Should you apply with such little experience? Or should you take some time and get the experience you need under your belt before applying? Here are the insights from Ryan & Rich: A common assumption that the more you do as an undergrad in terms of academia, the better candidate you are - that's not always the case. All your grades for allopathic medical schools will count whether you retake them or not. Medical school want to see: Motivation Commitment Achievement Commitment must be shown through extracurriculars that you've committed to for some time You want to be the strongest applicant on your first application you can be. Not having sufficient volunteering, shadowing, extracurriculars will make you a weaker candidate. Consider taking time until you have those experiences under the belt to become a stronger, more competitive candidate. Shadowing vs. volunteering: Volunteering is when you're doing something for others (clinic, nursing home, geriatric care, etc.) Shadowing is something you do for yourself (following a doctor around) Links and Other Resources: The Premed Years podcast session 171 - Reapplying to Med School - What You Need to Know to Improve The Premed Years podcast session 75 - What Are My Chances of Getting into Med School? If you have questions you want answered here on the OldPremeds Podcast, go to oldpremeds.org and register for an account. Go into the forums and ask a question. Listen to our first episode at OPMPodcast.com/1 to find out more about who we are. Also check out the Premed Years Podcast at www.medicalschoolhq.net. Find us on iTunes and go to opmpodcast.com/itunes and leave us a rating and review. Check out MedEdMedia.com for all the shows that we produce including The Premed Years and the OldPreMeds Podcast. We will soon be launching a medical school podcast as well so stay tuned! Email Dr. Ryan Gray at ryan@medicalschoolhq.net or connect with him on Twitter @medicalschoolhq.

Ryan answers your questions! We talk about MCAT timing, GPA, picking an undergrad and much more! Take a listen and don't forget to subscribe! Links and Other Resources: Full Episode Blog Post The Premed Years Podcast Session 171: Reapplying to Med School – What You Need to Know to Improve OldPreMeds podcast Session 12 Any questions? Drop them here www.medicalschoolhq.net/question If you need any help with the medical school interview, go to medschoolinterviewbook.com. Sign up and you will receive parts of the book so you can help shape the future of the book. This book will include over 500 questions that may be asked during interview day as well as real-life questions, answers, and feedback from all of the mock interviews Ryan has been doing with students. Are you a nontraditional student? Go check out oldpremeds.org. For more great content, check out www.mededmedia.com for more of the shows produced by the Medical School Headquarters including the OldPremeds Podcast and watch out for more shows in the future! Free MCAT Gift: Free 30+ page guide with tips to help you maximize your MCAT score and which includes discount codes for MCAT prep as well. Hang out with us over at medicalschoolhq.net/group. Click join and we’ll add you up to our private Facebook group. Share your successes and miseries with the rest of us. Check out our partner magazine, www.premedlife.com to learn more about awesome premed information. Next Step Test Prep: Get one-on-one tutoring for the MCAT and maximize your score. Get $50 off their tutoring program when you mention that you heard about this on the podcast or through the MSHQ website. Check out their 10-full length practice tests that you can take. Listen to our podcast for free at iTunes: medicalschoolhq.net/itunes and leave us a review there! Email Ryan at ryan@medicalschoolhq.net or connect with him on Twitter @medicalschoolhq