35: How to Fix an App After Starting Premed Poorly
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2013
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, I talk to Dr. Greg Polites for the second time on this show (the first time was in Session 23). This time we’re covering how to fix your application after starting off poorly as a premed, solutions to some possible scenarios, and red flags in your application and how to avoid them.
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: Can I Recover from a Bad GPA to Get into Medical School?
- Related episode: From a 2.7 Undergrad GPA to First Year Medical Student.
- Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” at Next Step Test Prep!
Transcript
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| 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 |
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| 0:40.3 | podcast to get your ticket for five dollars today. October 6th through 8th |
| 0:45.7 | MAPSCPCon presented by Blueprint MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:49.8 | If you're applying to medical school in 2022 to start medical school in |
| 0:55.0 | 2023, join me Wednesday or Thursday, Wednesday night at 930 PM |
| 1:00.7 | Eastern or Thursday at 11 a.m. eastern or Thursday at 11 a.m. eastern at pre-med workshop.com go |
| 1:07.5 | register today. I'm going to show you how to tell your story in your |
| 1:11.7 | application again that's pre-med workshop dot com if you are to tell your story in your application. |
| 1:12.5 | Again that's pre-Med Workshop.com. |
| 1:14.3 | If you are applying to medical school in 2022, |
| 1:17.3 | be there or B-square. |
| 1:20.6 | The Medical School HQ podcast, Session Number 35. Hello and welcome back to another session of the Medical School HQ |
| 1:38.3 | podcast. I am your host Ryan Gray back with you. We are the podcast about medical school taking you |
| 1:45.7 | through the pre-med process, medical school, and even through residency. We're here |
| 1:51.5 | to take your knowledge of becoming a physician to the next level. |
| 1:55.0 | Today for you guys listening I have our first repeat guest and he is well worth the repeat. I think you guys can |
| 2:07.7 | learn a lot more from him and before I introduce him I want to give a shout out to two more five-star ratings and reviews that were left in iTunes. |
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