Why Was This NP Rejected From Medical School? | Application Renovation (S3 E1)

This nurse practitioner wants to become a doctor, but she got no interviews in the 2020 application cycle. Was it all due to her MCAT score? What else can she improve before reapplying?

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This week on Application Renovation, our student is a nurse practitioner who applied to medical school in 2020. She believes her MCAT score is what held her back from getting any interview invites. Let's take a look!

We discuss:
• Where she went wrong with her MCAT prep.
• Should you apply before getting your MCAT score back?
• What qualifies someone as SES Disadvantaged in AMCAS?
• The story behind her GPA trend, and how I look at her 3.19 GPA.
• What happened with her 498 MCAT score.
• Where she could've added impactful stories in her activities section.
• How grammar and typo issues can hurt your application.
• The type of "resume writing" I recommend avoiding in your app.
• Should you avoid "why medicine" reflection in your activity descriptions?
• How to avoid having a personal statement that is basically a resume in paragraph form.
• Something to be careful to avoid in your personal statement.
• How to avoid cliches and create a more impactful personal statement.
• What to focus on instead of "this is what I learned" in the personal statement.
• What considerations she had in mind for her school list.
• Her plan for reapplying to medical school this year and my suggestions.
• How your personal statement will differ if you worked in healthcare before becoming premed.

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