What's YOUR Med School Plan?

Medical school applications and interviews are incredibly expensive. Applicants crave guidance, and some companies charge hundreds of dollars for information that you can find for free. I provide free information for applicants, and I only offer paid services for 1:1 attention for students who need/want it.

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*At this time I am in the planning stages of a business and will not be charging any fees*

Application Flowchart

APPLICATION SECTION - What medical schools are looking for

PRIMARY APPLICATION (AMCAS) - What do you look like on paper?

  • Academic Information - Are you prepared to handle medical school?

      • MCAT - How many attempts? Are you in our middle 50%tile or an outlier?

      • GPA(s) - Are you in our range? Do you have explanations if needed? Upward trend?

      • Schools/Degrees - Did you go to a strong school? Did you take challenging courses? Other degrees?

  • 15 Experiences, 3 Most Meaningful - 18 types and relative 3 categories (Medical, Research, and Other). How do you describe your experiences and how will they help you in medical school? Do you have genuine unique interests?

  • Personal Statement - What is important to you? What drives you? Do you know what to expect in medicine?

  • Demographics - Out of your control but may have an impact

      • Ethnicity and Race - Are you underrepresented in medicine?

      • Childhood/SES/Disadvantaged - Did you have challenges that impacted your application?

      • Parents - What do your parents do and where did they go to school? Are they in healthcare?

      • Languages - Do you speak another language (ideally above a basic level)?

  • Letters of Evaluation - Who endorses you? Do you have people in appropriate positions who took the time to write a strong letter for you?


SCHOOL CHOICE - Where are the programs that your application stands a chance?

  • AMCAS DATA Table A-1 - "U.S. Medical School Applications and Matriculants by School, State of Legal Residence, and Sex, 2021-2022"

      • Use this to verify that the schools you're applying to accept people from your current state

  • Pay for and use the MSAR - https://mec.aamc.org/msar-ui/#/landing

  • Do you have ANY connections to certain schools? Alumni? Work? Family friend? Consider having them reach out to admissions.


SECONDARY APPLICATIONS - How can you concisely answer questions specific to certain schools?

  • Save all writing. You never know where you'll use it!


INTERVIEWS - How do you present yourself? What is important to you? Why would you fit into our program?

  • Practice! Read example questions!


ACCEPTANCES - You did it! Do you have choices or leverage?

  • More than one? Keep in contact with schools for what they will offer financially.


RE-APPLICATION - Did you improve? Did you make backup plans?


About Brandon Rose, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Applying for residency in internal medicine

  • M.D./M.P.H. Class of 2022 at University of Miami

  • Admissions committee experience (will never share specific details)

  • Undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, Class of 2016

  • High School in San Diego, CA

  • Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA

  • Applied to medical school twice - interviewed at UCLA, UCSD, UC Irvine, UC Davis, USC, University of Miami, Mayo Clinic 2 and 2 Arizona/Florida

  • Other - Marathon runner, Heme/Onc fellowship plans, R computer coder

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