171: Reapplying to Med School - What You Need to Know to Improve
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Christine is the former Dean of Admissions at UC Irvine and talks to us today about the biggest reason premeds get rejected and the steps to correct an app.
Links and Other Resources
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Check out my Premed Playbook series of books (available on Amazon), with installments on the personal statement, the medical school interview, and the MCAT.
- Related episode: Rejected at 32: What Should I Do Now?
- Related episode: Should I Turn Down a DO Acceptance and Reapply to MD Schools?
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| 0:50.1 | In the pre-med year session number 171. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to the Prem-med years where we believe that collaboration not |
| 1:06.2 | competition is key to your success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this |
| 1:11.0 | podcast we share with you stories encouragement and |
| 1:14.4 | information that you need to know to help guide you on your path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:21.3 | This week I have a very special guest and we're going to talk about reapplying to medical school, |
| 1:28.5 | which isn't something surprisingly I haven't talked about much in the three-plus years we've been talking about pre-med stuff. |
| 1:37.1 | And so Christine Crispin was the former Dean of Admissions at UC Irvine and now works at the Keck School of Medicine |
| 1:45.0 | doing some other things and we're going to dig into things about applicants and why |
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