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A blog about the medical school admissions process

Waiting for Interviews and Decisions? Send Updates to Medical Schools.

We start seeing the same questions, again and again, from medical school applicants at this time of the year. Is it getting late to hear from schools? Should I be worried? What should I be doing now? No, it is not too late and there is no reason to worry. Every medical school has a….

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Jacobs School of Medicine: Racist Slur Secondary Question

July 13, 2020 by Janet Snoyer in Secondaries No Comments
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The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo has a new secondary question that may be difficult to respond to in a written form.   Please explain how you would respond to a fellow student who muttered a racist or homophobic slur under their breath in the presence of other students. ….

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Taking the MCAT During the COVID-19 Pandemic

June 22, 2020 by Janet Snoyer in COVID-19 Advice, Tests No Comments

If you are taking the MCAT this summer and early fall, you will need to adjust your mindset on how these entities cooperate to provide you the opportunity to take a required examination: the government, federal, state and municipal; the Pearson Vue testing center, a local branch of a for-profit corporation; the MCAT, a nonprofit….

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Suggested Changes to the 2020-2021 Medical School Admissions Cycle

April 8, 2020 by Elyse Perruchon in Advising No Comments

In the midst of the global COVID-19 crisis, we have all been wondering how medical school admissions may change this year. And then we decided to go a step further and outline how we think it should change. We wrote our ideas up in this infographic. Feel free to share! Click on the image for….

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