The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook continues to receive great reviews and 5/5 stars on Amazon.
Another satisfied pre-med wrote:
"Ask any pre-med student, and they will tell you: applying to medical
school is nothing short of a chaotic headache. Considering this, a young
clinician once told me, "The most important thing you can do when you
are applying is to find someone you trust and heed their advice.
Regularly." While this seems pretty simple, with a litany of
organizations trying to tell you their version of how to get into
medical school, it can be nigh impossible to know where you stand.
And
having been there, done that myself, I can say with experience that
this book, "The Medical School Admissions Guide" is hands down THE BEST
pre-medical application book I have encountered. This is the
swiss-army-knife of admissions guides that will help get you into
medical school.
There are a few things that I found that made this book stand out as more then exceptional:
1)
Actually gives examples that work: Though I considered myself a
neurotic pre-med student, I quickly got sick of the platitudes and
abstractions that my colleuges keep insisting were valuable information
regarding medical school. Dr. Miller's book not only discusses the
theory about how to approach your application and candidacy but then
discusses real-world examples. You end up essentially taking a class on
the application process, with valuable case-study work added in.
2)
Puts you on a schedule (if you want): What really worked for me was how
the book organizes its content within a specific timeline. One of the
big draws of people taking an MCAT review course is that it allows you
to schedule your time out automatically, and I appreciated being able
to take the same framework of an MCAT class and apply it to the entirety
of the general application process of medical school: less thinking on
my part and I could focus my willpower and discipline elsewhere.
Please
note, though: I felt that the content is categorized enough such that
it entirely possible to use the material discussed in the book a la
carte, so you could independently apply it to different aspects of the
application process.
3)No-nonsense, no-fluff strategy: there is a
LOT of material out there on applying to medical school. And a LOT of
it are vague generalizations and trivial information that will lead you
pretty much nowhere except out a couple hundred bucks that could have
been used on secondary application fees. Dr. Miller's book is unique in
that it gives concrete and ACTIONABLE steps to getting yourself in
position to be a competitive medical school candidate. There really
wasn't any guesswork required on my part to how I needed to work the
system, based on the advice in the text.
In summary: skip the other stuff and get "The Medical School Admissions Guide", you will thank me later."
