Full AMCAS Breakdown of a Successful Reapplicant With 3.35 GPA | Mission: Accepted S1 E3

This med school reapplicant has had a very successful 2020 application cycle. Let's take a detailed look at her AMCAS application: Grades, MCAT scores, activity descriptions, personal statement, school list, and the rest!

Mission: Accepted features successful med school applicants. We dive into their full applications, looking at specifically what worked well, along with what they could've done even better.

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Our discussion of this week's student's app covers points like:

• Why she thinks she was so successful this application cycle.
• Her results when only applying to 4 med schools the first time, versus this time applying to 26 MD schools and 4-5 DO schools.
• Her institutional action for an alcohol violation in college.
• How poor performance in Dual-Enrollment classes from high school can hurt you as a premed.
• Why she struggled with grades early in college, getting quite a few Cs and Bs.
• Is it bad to leave a graduate program or postbac program without finishing it?
• How to explain bad grades in your med school application or secondary essays.
• How she went from a 509 MCAT to a 516 MCAT.
• Can a good MCAT score "offset" a lower GPA?
• Why storytelling can be so refreshing in the activities section, and how she did a great job with that.
• How you can split up your activities into multiple entries to separate out clinical hours from non-clinical hours.
• What medical school interviewers asked her about her activities.
• Why I recommend not focusing on the negative in your activity descriptions.
• A small application mistake that can sometimes lead medical schools to not see all of your extracurricular hours.
• A full breakdown of her personal statement and what I think she did best.
• One of the most cliche ways to start a personal statement (and why I'm glad she didn't do it).
• How she actually enjoyed her med school interviews and had fun with them.

If you like Mission: Accepted, be sure to check out my other series Application Renovation, in which I give feedback to students who got rejected from medical school. We follow a similar format with full, detailed application breakdowns: http://applicationrenovation.com/