How can you write your med school personal statement and activity descriptions in a way that has IMPACT? Today, I'm going through a full medical school application from a student who was rejected on her first try, and I'm sharing how she could've told her story in a more impactful way.

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On this week's Application Renovation, we're talking with a student who did get one interview, and it was at the med school where she was enrolled in a postbac program. The dean told her that her MCAT was the main thing holding her application back. She also wasn't super confident with her grades, though.

Here are some things we cover as I look through her AMCAS application:

Why it's important to submit early (it took her app over a month to be processed!)
How to write your disadvantaged student essay to show resilience.
Why she still may need to do some work to show she's academically capable enough for med school (2.75 undergrad GPA and 3.3 postbac GPA).
Why you should consider applying to both MD and DO medical schools.
The risks of applying to med school before taking your MCAT.
How she improved her grades between undergrad and her postbac.
How to avoid selling yourself too much in your activity descriptions.
Why you need to be careful with "fluff" activities on your app that you only did for a few hours.
How to highlight your core competencies by telling STORIES in your application rather than making generic statements.
A small detail about capitalization that many premeds get wrong.
How to show impact in your extracurricular descriptions with numbers and statistics.
How the personal statement needs to be different from the disadvantaged essay.
Why the point of your personal statement is not showing your capability to be a doctor, but instead your desire to be a doctor.
Why rhetorical questions are not impactful in your personal statement.
Why it's so important to do physician shadowing as a premed.

This episode gets into the real heart of how to tell your story as an applicant to medical school. Make sure you watch the last 4 minutes for my explanation of why I disagree so strongly with the medical school application advice this student was following!

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