March 2019 - Medical School Admissions Advising

Your Stories: How to Tell Them

March 22, 2019 by Janet Snoyer in Building Your Narrative No Comments

Advice for Premeds: How to Tell Your Stories

How to draw anecdotes out of meaningful experiences, reflect on them, and write about them for medical school statements, essays and interviews. Physicians take patient histories for many reasons: to….

Should I Apply This Year or Take a Gap Year?

March 16, 2019 by Featured Author in Gap Year No Comments

Taking a year or more between undergraduate or postgraduate education and medical school has become the norm in the 21st century. The mean age for matriculants to medical school in….

The Best Way to Prepare for the MCAT

March 11, 2019 by Featured Author in Tests 2 Comments

Advice for Premeds: Prepare for the MCAT

By Niki Cunningham, Senior Advising Dean, Columbia University in the City of New York, and Janet Snoyer. Now that you have decided the best time to take the MCAT—how do you actually prepare….