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👉 Download the 2024/2025 Medical School Application Toolkit 👈 Our new toolkit, with useful tips and tricks, will help keep you organized this year while submitting the strongest application possible. You wil find: ✅ Monthly worksheets ✅ Letter of Recommendation Guidance ✅ Personal Statement...

Greetings! In the medical school admissions arena of single digit acceptance rates, it is tough to know what medical schools are true “safeties” for any applicant. The reality may be tough to hear: Regardless of how strong an applicant you are, there are rarely “safety” medical schools...

Greetings! With AMCAS, AACOMAS, and TMDSAS opening within weeks, if you haven’t yet requested letters of recommendation, now is the time! Below you will find letter of recommendation tips which will be useful as you request your letters of recommendation. 1) When considering whom to ask for...

Hello Premeds!!! If you are getting ready to apply to medical school this year, you should be thinking about your medical school personal statement. Not only should your personal statement clearly explain your narrative and interest in medicine but you also want to make sure it communicates...

Are you thinking of taking a gap year before medical school? Get answers to the top five questions about taking a gap year before medical school: 1) Do medical schools like gap years? 2) What is an effective gap year timeline? 3) Can I take two gap years before applying to medical school...

For a very competitive specialty like orthopedics, I would suggest you go to [top tier school]. These are VERY different medical schools and [top tier school] is much more prestigious. You could call [state school] and ask for their match lists. They should be willing to send them to you.

Every year medical school applicants feel confused and in the dark about why they have been rejected by medical schools. They do not understand what they did wrong or what they need to do differently when they reapply. Whether you are a premedical student trying to make sure to “do everything...

Congratulations on your acceptances! Of the three specialties you mention, orthopedics and emergency medicine are the most competitive. I advise you to look at the match lists for school A and school B. Over the past four years, what percentage of students match in to these specialties? Where...

Read Dr. Freedman's latest article on the residency match process for 2017-2018. http://mededits.com/blog/2015/01/residency-match-success-lessons-learned/

CAN OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENTS MATCH INTO ALLOPATHIC RESIDENCIES? You attend an osteopathic medical school and are considering applying for the allopathic residency match in September. According to the National Residency Match Program, 2,339 D.O. applicants matched last year (March 2015)...

You attend a foreign medical school and are considering applying for the residency match in September. According to the National Residency Match Program, 6,301 international medical graduate applicants matched last year (March 2015). Which specialties matched the most international medical...

Every year after residency rank order lists have been submitted, and before match day, program directors from all residency specialties are sent a survey “to shed light on the factors that program directors use to (1) select applicants to interview and (2) rank applicants for the match.”* In...

According to a report recently published by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, “there were 3.20 applicants for each COCA-approved seat in the first-year class.” Below are MedEdits’ top 10 statistics for the 2015 osteopathic medical school entering class. 20,477...

Whether you are applying for medical school, residency, or fellowship, we can help you determine your overall game plan before you apply. Medical School Applicants: Clients start working with MedEdits by having a personalized one hour comprehensive Diagnostic Session; we obtain a full...

MedEdits Medical Admissions is giving away 5 books. Winners can choose one of the following four books: 1) The MedEdits Guide to Medical School Admissions Dr. Jessica Freedman, a former Mount Sinai School of Medicine faculty member, offers concrete guidance to help applicants distinguish...