Making Pre-Med Count

Everything I wish I'd known before applying (successfully!) to med school

Elisabeth Fassas

• Publisher: Kaplan Test Prep
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781506258188
• eBook ISBN:
  9781506258195
• Topic: Study Aids
• Subtopic: Medical Education

In Making Pre-Med Count, med student Elisabeth Fassas shares personal stories from her own experiences to help guide you through the pre-med process. You'll get first-hand guidance and learn how to apply her advice to your own med school journey. Counselors and checklists are helpful, but your pre-med journey cannot be boiled down to a list of activities and a collection of accolades. In Making Pre-Med Count, Fassas teaches you how to translate your accomplishments into a compelling and personalized med school application. Fassas gets into the weeds of the pre-med years to touch on the most fundamental and gnawing questions that interested applicants must face. Using examples from her own journey from freshman year to acceptance, plus tips and tricks from her peers, she guides readers through an endless stream of conflicting advice towards preparing academically, mentally and psychologically for the med school application process.Her advice starts with the idea that anything and everything can get you into medical school if you're able to get into the heads of the admissions committee. You'll also get her take on many of the questions raised in student forums. Fassas, who will begin med school in the fall of 2019, helps relieve some of the common pre-med doubts, anxieties, and fears that you'll feel. Making Pre-Med Count compiles Fassas' advice in one place -- it's like having your own personal med school advisor.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1: Application Timeline
• CHAPTER 2: Designing Your Pre-Med Years
• CHAPTER 3: The Primary Application
• CHAPTER 4: MCAT
• CHAPTER 5: Taking the MCAT...Again
• CHAPTER 6: Activities List
• CHAPTER 7: Writing the Personal Statement
• CHAPTER 8: Letters of Recommendation
• CHAPTER 9: Designing Your School List
• CHAPTER 10: Paying for the Application and Medical School
• CHAPTER 11: Completing Your Secondary Applications
• CHAPTER 12: Acing the Interview
• CHAPTER 13: Follow-Up Letters
• CHAPTER 14: Reapplying to Medical School
• CHAPTER 15: Understanding DO Schools
• CHAPTER 16: Gap Years and Post-Bac Programs