Learning Spanish as a future PA, Dentist, or Physician is so incredibly important to make medicine more accessible to so many more...

I am wishing everyone a Happy New Year! This application cycle is certainly something to be happy about! Although not everyone...

Are you getting ready for the MCAT or beginning your medical school application journey? If so, excitement and nerves may be running...

I'm hitting the road again! 🗺 I'm taking a small group of interested persons to four different allopathic med schools in February where...

Applicants often focus heavily on perfecting their personal statements while neglecting the importance of their Work and Activities...

You prep a ton for the interview, you leave the interview feeling amazing, and then three weeks later, you get the dreaded email saying...

Now is the time that many applicants begin sending update emails to schools they haven't heard back from. Updates can include: Getting a...

For almost a decade, I've been teaching a seminar for the next cycle's applicants that serves many purposes for me. First, I love...

I'm excited to announce that I'm launching a fall Book Club, free and open to anyone who wants to join. We're going to start with a book...

For those who haven't written secondaries before, you don't know yet know why this type of support is valuable, but from the years I've...

With CASPA, AADSAS, AMCAS and AACOMAS opening soon, I wanted to check in to make sure the following things have been completed (if...

Several of my applicants this season are ready to begin writing secondaries, which is super exciting to me. If that's not quite you yet,...

I'm excited to share my new podcast: Into the Nuance. I joined forces with two of my colleagues and good friends to dive into the nuance...

There is no way around it. Being a reapplicant is HARD! The amount of money, time and energy that goes into applying to medical school is...

Whether your personal statement is four or five paragraphs, I don't know that it matters much, but I will continue to argue that every...

If you didn't register for my AppPrep Seminar (happening now) and you plan to start your app a little later (not ideal, but it happens),...

I remember years ago sitting at an AAMC meeting in Philadelphia when the AAMC folks introduced the "situational judgment test" to a room...

CHECK OUT SOME OF THE EVENTS I HAVE COMING UP OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS! Each year, I bring a group of my current successful applicants...

Next month, I have the Vice Dean of Admissions from Sydney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia coming for an informal chat with me...

I can think of so many stories from personal statements where people present problems they've seen in society or clinical spaces. When...