He Applied to 24 Medical Schools and Didn't Get In | Application Renovation (S2 E11)

Is there a wrong answer to the question "Why medicine?" What are the risks of focusing on the intellectual challenges of becoming a physician in your med school application, rather than patient care? That and so much more in today's Application Renovation!

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On this week's Application Renovation, our student got 1 interview out of 24 medical schools he applied to. His premed advisor mentioned that he may need to improve his GPA for future application cycles if he's reapplying. Here's what we discussed:

• Why his 3.48 cumulative GPA and 3.44 science GPA are not actually an issue for me.
• A potential red flag in the dates he listed for his EMT experiences.
• Why and how he should stop trying to sell his positive traits so bluntly in his activity descriptions.
• A common mistake that premeds make when describing the doctors they shadowed.
• When to label activities as "medical/clinical," and the risk of labeling something as clinical when it's really not.
• How to list your hours for activities that you only did during the school year, not over the summers.
• How to show that an activity is clinical without just listing out a job description.
• Why consistency matters so much in your clinical activities.
• The danger of focusing on the intellectual challenges of medicine in your personal statement and other essays.
• Why a lack of quality clinical experiences makes it much harder to write a good personal statement.
• What made his school list pretty good, and where a lot of other students go wrong.
• Ideas for how you can find the "seed" for your personal statement.
• Why most students should not apply to med school two years in a row.

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