Which medical school admissions book should I buy?

I have been receiving many questions about which of my three books should be read when. So I thought I would lay it out for you here.

How to be Pre-Med is meant for high school, early college, and non-traditional pre-meds trying to determine what is required in the pre-med process or looking for a way to assess how they have been doing so far. Though you want to read this book as early in your pre-med career as possible, it will be helpful throughout the pre-med process up until you apply to medical school. How to be Pre-Med is available in paperback and e-book formats through Amazon and Barnes&Noble.

The Medical School Admissions Guide is a step-by-step guide of the actual medical school admissions process. It's best read for the first time when you are certain you will be applying and then should be by your side ready to be reviewed as you move through each stage of the application process. In addition to weekly advice, the book also contains numerous personal statement, AMCAS work/activity, secondary essay, and letter of intent examples from successful applicants that will show you what it takes to get in and will stir up your creative juices. The Medical School Admissions Guide is available in paperback and e-book formats through Amazon and Barnes&Noble.

How to Get into Medical School with a Low GPA is an e-book directed to premeds who have a less than stellar academic record. It provides numerous scenarios and strategies of how to deal with a low GPA in medical school admissions. You might be surprised to know that a low GPA does not mean medical school doors are shut to you! The e-book is available through the website howtobepremed. Please note the website was recently hacked, and my technical team is diligently working to correct the issue. If you'd like a copy of How to Get into Medical School with a Low GPA now, feel free to send me an e-mail at info@MDadmit.com and we can complete the transaction via PayPal/e-mail.

As always, let me know if you have any questions.

Good luck and get in:)
--Dr. Miller

Suzanne M. Miller, MD, FACEP
Emergency Physician
CEO, MDadmit Medical Admissions
www.MDadmit.com
info@MDadmit.com
 

How to be Pre-Med Book Talk: Georgetown Pre-Med Society

Hoya Saxa! Thank you to the Georgetown Pre-Med Society for the engaging How to be Pre-Med book talk this past Wednesday night. Though I was very impressed by the myriad questions, one stood out in particular that I would like to discuss here: "Should I turn in my AMCAS application in June if I am taking a June MCAT?"

Wow is this a hard question. And my answer will certainly create controversy, but it stems from over a decade of helping pre-meds get into medical school. My answer is NO! Do not turn in your application until you know the quality of every part of it. In other words, what if you bomb the MCAT? You don't want to hit the apply button and then learn you earned a subpar MCAT score. This can tank your application. Hitting the AMCAS submit button, regardless of whether the MCAT score is in, "counts" as an application. The last thing you want to do is be categorized as a re-applicant - it's a red flag to medical schools. Let's say you bomb the MCAT and then retake it is August and do better. By then, it will be September and many medical schools will already have thrown your application into the rejection pile.

So you have two choices if you are taking a June MCAT:
1. Wait until July to see your MCAT score then hit submit
2. Apply next cycle

My only exception to this rule is for pre-meds who are excellent test takers and are 100% sure they will do extremely well on the MCAT. But this will be <1 br="" nbsp="" of="" out="" pre-meds="" the="" there.="">

Thank you to Bryan Crutchfield for making this Georgetown book talk happen!

--Dr. Miller
Suzanne M. Miller, MD, FACEP Emergency Physician
CEO of MDadmit: Medical Admissions Consulting and Essay Editing
www.MDadmit.com, 415.939.5251

Author of:
How to be Pre-Med
The Medical School Admissions Guide
How To Get Into Medical School with a Low GPA

How to be Pre-Med Book Talk: Good Counsel High School

What fun it was to visit my high school alma mater and talk about How to be Pre-Med to Good Counsel High School students this past Wednesday. It's a good sign these teenagers were willing to give up an hour of sleep to hear me talk! Though the morning was filled with engaging questions about the Six Buckets of How to be Pre-Med, one question stood out, "Do high school activities matter for medical school?"

The answers are: no and yes.

In general, medical school admissions committees only assess your accomplishments beginning the minute you step foot in college. Med schools don't care about your SATs or high school grades. But if you have very remarkable high school accomplishments - such as winning the Westinghouse Science Award, publishing an article, or starting a community service project abroad - than you can certainly include them on your medical school application. Additionally, if you started a project in high school and have continued pursuing it in college, then this can certainly be part of your medical school application. This is good news all around. If you'd like to forget high school and not mention it on your medical school application, this is perfectly acceptable. And if you have an outstanding accomplishment or have continued an activity from high school to college, you are welcome to include it. Everyone wins!

--Dr. Miller

Suzanne M. Miller, MD, FACEP Emergency Physician
CEO of MDadmit: Medical Admissions Consulting and Essay Editing
www.MDadmit.com, 415.939.5251

Author of:
How to be Pre-Med
The Medical School Admissions Guide
How To Get Into Medical School with a Low GPA

How to be Pre-Med in the Press

Check out this lovely article on Dr. Miller's now book: How to be Pre-Med

How To Be Pre-Med assists high school, college, and non-traditional students interested in becoming physicians by describing the pre-med route from start to finish using the Six Buckets model Dr. Miller developed through over a decade of medical school admissions
advising. This guide is equally helpful to those hoping to pursue a medical career and to loved ones, such as parents, spouses, relatives, and friends, supporting a pre-med.

Dr. Miller created How to be Pre-Med to serve as a prequel to the best-selling The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook because readers frequently provided feedback wishing they had received similar expert guidance sooner in the pre-med process.

How To Be Pre-Med covers all information required to excel as a pre-med and prepare for the medical school application process. I suggest you read this book as soon as you decide to pursue the pre-med path to help strategize selection of undergraduate or post-baccalaureate experiences. Then return to it each year to assess how you are filling up the Six Buckets.

Once you have decided to apply to medical school, pick up the latest edition of The Medical School Admissions Guide and follow the weekly steps required to create the best application possible to maximize your chances of admission.

What's New? How to be Pre-Med is now carried by Books-a-Million

MDadmit is proud to announce Dr. Miller's new book: How to be Pre-Med: A Harvard MD's Medical School Preparation Guide for Students and Parents is now carried by Books-a-Million.

How To Be Pre-Med assists high school, college, and non-traditional students interested in becoming physicians by describing the pre-med route from start to finish using the Six Buckets model Dr. Miller developed through over a decade of medical school admissions
advising. This guide is equally helpful to those hoping to pursue a medical career and to loved ones, such as parents, spouses, relatives, and friends, supporting a pre-med.

Dr. Miller created How to be Pre-Med to serve as a prequel to the best-selling The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook because readers frequently provided feedback wishing they had received similar expert guidance sooner in the pre-med process.

How To Be Pre-Med covers all information required to excel as a pre-med and prepare for the medical school application process. I suggest you read this book as soon as you decide to pursue the pre-med path to help strategize selection of undergraduate or post-baccalaureate experiences. Then return to it each year to assess how you are filling up the Six Buckets.

Once you have decided to apply to medical school, pick up the latest edition of The Medical School Admissions Guide and follow the weekly steps required to create the best application possible to maximize your chances of admission.

How to be Pre-Med Book Talk with Harvard Pre-Med Society

A big thanks to Connie Zhong and Meewon Park for organizing last night's How to be Pre-Med Book Talk for the Harvard Pre-Med Society. I always long to return to my old stomping grounds, though Sever Hall still bring back less than positive memories (all my final exams seemed to be held in Sever:).

We had a lively discussion of the Top 10 Pre-Med Questions...and Answers including:

*What GPA does a Pre-Med need to get into medical school?
*Who should I ask for recommendations?
*What’s the key to a great personal statement?
*What happens if I don’t get into medical school the first time?

 Thanks again Connie and Meewon, and I hope to see you again next year!

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Are you interested in having Dr. Miller give a pre-med talk at your pre-med meeting? Send her an e-mail at info@MDadmit.com and she will happily try to make it happen.

 

What's New? Barnes & Noble now carries How to be Pre-Med

Barnes & Noble now carries Dr. Miller's new book, How to be Pre-Med

Pick up a copy here: How to be Pre-Med: A Harvard MD's Medical School Preparation Guide for Students and Parents

Get it at Barnes & Noble

Book Description:
How To Be Pre-Med assists high school, college, and non-traditional students interested in becoming physicians by describing the pre-med route from start to finish using the Six Buckets model Dr. Miller developed through over a decade of medical school admissions
advising. This guide is equally helpful to those hoping to pursue a medical career and to loved ones, such as parents, spouses, relatives, and friends, supporting a pre-med.

Dr. Miller created How to be Pre-Med to serve as a prequel to the best-selling The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook because readers frequently provided feedback wishing they had received similar expert guidance sooner in the pre-med process.

How To Be Pre-Med covers all information required to excel as a pre-med and prepare for the medical school application process. I suggest you read this book as soon as you decide to pursue the pre-med path to help strategize selection of undergraduate or post-baccalaureate experiences. Then return to it each year to assess how you are filling up the Six Buckets.

Once you have decided to apply to medical school, pick up the latest edition of The Medical School Admissions Guide and follow the weekly steps required to create the best application possible to maximize your chances of admission.

SDN Test Prep Week 2013

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What's new? How to be Pre-Med is available!

MDadmit is proud to announce the publication of

How to be Pre-Med: A Harvard MD's Medical School Preparation Guide for Students and Parents

Get it at Amazon

Book Description:
How To Be Pre-Med assists high school, college, and non-traditional students interested in becoming physicians by describing the pre-med route from start to finish using the Six Buckets model Dr. Miller developed through over a decade of medical school admissions
advising. This guide is equally helpful to those hoping to pursue a medical career and to loved ones, such as parents, spouses, relatives, and friends, supporting a pre-med.

Dr. Miller created How to be Pre-Med to serve as a prequel to the best-selling The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook because readers frequently provided feedback wishing they had received similar expert guidance sooner in the pre-med process.

How To Be Pre-Med covers all information required to excel as a pre-med and prepare for the medical school application process. I suggest you read this book as soon as you decide to pursue the pre-med path to help strategize selection of undergraduate or post-baccalaureate experiences. Then return to it each year to assess how you are filling up the Six Buckets.

Once you have decided to apply to medical school, pick up the latest edition of The Medical School Admissions Guide and follow the weekly steps required to create the best application possible to maximize your chances of admission.

Exciting News! How to be Pre-Med Book Publication Announcement

I am thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of my new book - How to be Pre-Med: A Harvard MD's Medical School Preparation Guide for Students and Parents.

The book will be available on www.MDadmit.com, Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com in February 2013.