Episode #2: How to get more medical school interviews
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It is important to provide medical schools with more evidence that you are an excellent candidate. What can you do to try to get more medical school interviews and to convince a medical school that you are a great candidate?
The first thing you can do is you can send a medical school update letter.
You can have additional letters of reference sent into your medical schools.
Recruit a "medical school applicant advocate."
Medical school update letters.
UPDATE letters and letter's of interest always come together.
Are volunteering somewhere? Have you had interesting observations? All of this can potentially influence a medical schools decision.
Tell the medical schools about your recent accomplishments and you also want to express your specific interest in the medical school.
Maybe you want to write something about the clinical sites or the clinical departments that really interest you.
Maybe there are some researchers who are doing research in your area of interest.
New letters of reference. If you're in school. That's usually an easy place to get additional letters of reference.
If you're doing research and your principal investigator has not yet sent in the letter of reference. That's a great person to ask.
To try to get more medical school interviews. Recruit an advocate, somebody who is going to call medical school admissions offices.
We find that these types of advocacy phone calls are actually the most influential in terms of getting applicants additional medical school interviews.
Now, when should you start worrying about not having any medical school interviews?
If you don't have any medical school interviews after the new year, it's time to reevaluate.
We have an evaluation of students: what can be done differently such as you need to broaden your school list.
In early winter send letters of interest, update letters and additional letters of reference. Get advocates to call admissions offices.This will get students additional medical school interviews
There is definitely a lot you can do to get more interviews.
How to improve your candidacy for the following year.
So we always welcome questions from our audiences and from our students. So always feel free to email us at info@mededits.com, and visit our website at www.mededits.com
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Increase Your Chances of Medical School Admissions in the Winter Months, https://bit.ly/348r3PK
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