213: Stop Looking For a Backup Plan, It's Hurting Your Chances
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Prompted from a post in our Facebook group, I wanted to tell you why I think having a backup plan for medical school is a bad idea. Backed by science of course!
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 from the Caribbean! Now with a US Acceptance!
- Related episode: Is the Role of Your Premed Advisor to Tell You No.
- Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” for 10% off Next Step full-length practice tests or “MSHQTOC” for $50 off MCAT tutoring or the Next Step MCAT Course at Next Step Test Prep!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | MapCon is right around the corner October 6th through 8th in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:05.6 | It is an in-person event, unfortunately not virtual this year, but I'm going to give you |
| 0:11.9 | a special coupon code only for the |
| 0:14.2 | podcast. Use the promo code podcast and get your ticket for five dollars. Not |
| 0:20.9 | a hundred dollars like the website or50, whatever it is on sale. |
| 0:24.8 | For $5. |
| 0:26.2 | If finances are holding you back, I don't want it to be finances that cause you to not come |
| 0:31.2 | to MappedCon. |
| 0:32.4 | Go to MappedCon. Go to MappedCon.com, M A P P P, C, O, N, dot com, and use the promo code |
| 0:40.3 | podcast to get your ticket for five dollars today. |
| 0:44.0 | October 6th through 8th, MapCon presented by Blueprint MCAT. |
| 0:48.0 | I will see you there. |
| 0:50.0 | The pre-med years is part of the Med Ed Media Network at med-ed media.com. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the Premid Year session number 213. Hello and welcome to the two-time Academy Award-nominated podcast, The Pre-Med Years, where we believe that collaboration, not competition, |
| 1:15.3 | is key to your Pre-Vend success. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray, and in this podcast we share with you stories, encouragement, and information that you need to know to |
| 1:24.9 | help guide you on your path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:29.4 | Now welcome back to the pre-med years, if this is not your first time joining us and if it is welcome. |
| 1:35.0 | You are lucky enough to be joined today with the lovely Allison Gray. |
| 1:42.0 | Hello. How you doing Allison? with the lovely Allison Gray. |
| 1:42.6 | Hello. |
| 1:43.6 | How you doing Allison? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ryan Gray, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ryan Gray and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.