281: What Does the Med School Application Timeline Look Like?
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When should you start writing your personal statement, your extracurriculars, taking the MCAT, asking for letters of rec and more application timelines?
Links and Other Resources:
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Premed Hangout (our Facebook group) / Medical School HQ Forums
- Medical School Secondary Application Essay Library
- Interfolio (use for letters of recommendation)
- Check out Dr. Gray’s book The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement
- Related episode: Secondary Essay Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” at Next Step Test Prep!
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| 0:44.3 | October 6th through 8th, MapCon presented by Blueprint |
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| 0:49.8 | The pre-mede-Year Year Session No 281. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with you stories, |
| 1:14.7 | encouragement and information that you need to know to help guide you on your |
| 1:19.4 | path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:29.0 | Now the pre-med path is long, it's hard, and when it comes to applying to medical school, that's a whole nether ballgame all together. |
| 1:32.0 | And I help students with their applications. nether ball game all together. |
| 1:32.8 | And I help students with their applications and I get the same questions over and |
| 1:37.4 | over again. |
| 1:38.4 | From both students that I help and students that are in the pre-med hangout on Facebook or emails that I get and a lot of times |
| 1:45.3 | it's all around application timing. |
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