The grade posts at 11 p.m. You open it, already bracing, and there it is: a number lower than anything you’ve seen since high school. The person next to you in lecture seems to get every concept the first time. Your roommate’s pre-med friends talk about...
Figuring out how to get into medical school can feel like reading a giant list of things you were supposed to start yesterday. Prerequisites, the MCAT, clinical hours, shadowing, research, letters, essays, interviews. Where does a freshman even begin? And if...
Pre-med advice spreads fast and gets checked slowly. A rumor from a group chat becomes “everyone knows” by the end of the semester. Some of it is true. A lot of it is half true, and some of it is just wrong in ways that cost students time, money or...
Medical school applications rarely fall apart because of one terrible decision. They weaken slowly, through choices that seemed reasonable at the time: one extra science class, an MCAT date picked too early, a résumé full of hours that don’t add up to much. Most...
Grades post, and there it is: an F, or something close to it, in a class you needed. Maybe it was organic chemistry. Maybe it was gen chem during a semester when everything else was falling apart too. Since you’ve wanted to be a doctor for a long time, one bad...
If you’re pre-med and sitting in gen chem right now, you’ve probably wondered whether all those equilibrium problems and Lewis structures will matter later. Will you see them again? Or is chemistry just a box to check on the way to the “real”...