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Gap Year
Memory Improvement Tips
You’re taking your final exam and you run into a question that provokes strange feelings. Deep in your brain, you know you have the answer but for some reason, you can’t pull it out. You remember seeing it in your…
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Path to Medical School Part 4: How Do I Know I Want To Be a Doctor?
Please read part 1, part 2 and part 3 before reading part 4: It was in China. It was during a month long mission trip the summer before my sophomore year. I knew I wanted to pursue medicine at this…
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Gap Year
What is the Best MCAT Prep Course?
What is the best MCAT prep course? There is no hard data to answer that question. Most people have not taken more than one prep course so their recommendations are biased as well. Therefore, take my, or anyone else’s, advice…
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What is a Well Rounded Applicant?
Most people know that medical schools value well-rounded applicants. But what dictates a well-rounded applicant? What does a well-rounded applicant look like? Does that apply specifically to the applicant’s accomplishments or does it even extend to his or her character…
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Does Undergraduate Reputation Matter for Admissions?
Does undergraduate reputation matter for admissions? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is complicated. In a sense, the undergraduate institution you attend is insignificant. In another sense, it is significant. Why is it insignificant? When admissions committees from medical schools…
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Residency & Beyond
Coffee Reduces Risk of Oral Cancer?
Coffee drinkers rejoice! Recent research from the American Cancer Society states that coffee intake is associated with reduced risk of oral/pharyngeal cancer. The prospective study, which began in 1982, included 968,432 men and women who were cancer free at enrollment.…
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Path to Medical School Part 3: Pre-Med Advising
Please read part 1 and part 2 before reading part 3: As an underclassman, I really wondered about everyone else. What were their GPA’s? For the people who took their MCAT’s, what were their scores? What kind of extracurricular activities…
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Extracurriculars
Path to Medical School Part 2: Pre-Med Volunteering
Please read part 1 before reading part 2: For some reason, people seem to think that grades during freshman year of college do not matter. Maybe this attitude at my school stemmed from the fact that for college admissions, University…
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Path to Medical School Part 1
To be completely honest, my initial decision to become a doctor was a relatively arbitrary thing. Near the end of my junior year and beginning of my senior year in high school, I was thinking a great deal about what…
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The Importance of Mentorship
While I was eating lunch with him, my research mentor, who is a renowned urologist, said to me, “I always learned from the person who was one step ahead of me.” This meant when he was an underclassmen, he learned…
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