Med School Application DEALBREAKERS (from Admissions Committees)

Thanks for watching everyone! What other questions do you have about the medical school application process that you want me to cover in a future video? Let me know!

I'm about to tell them i want to practice primary care in a small rural town in Maine.

I'm in medical school already and I still watch these videos... Man this is unhealthy

Got to love the transparency. He says it’s a little unfair, subjective, and mostly just about entertaining a decision maker. And unfortunately if your honest application is a little boring, you’re forced to be a little dishonest in order to entertain that decision maker.

How can someone watch this video and not be disgusted by the application process? It's a colossal mess of subjectivity and feelings and insider games. What a tremendous waste of human effort that discourages many talented people from a rewarding profession!

Imagine turning away someone that could do the job well due to factors that dont have anything to do with the job. Absolutely stupid.

I'm addicted to these videos but they're also stressing me out

I 100% back the narrative based application as it makes your application way more appealing. The best way to craft a story is to look into what your unique interests, values and experiences are that have led you to this point. My med school application did just that, I went into my childhood experiences with medical care, how that shaped my perspectives and why that inspired me to pursue medicine. Find areas throughout your story to link back to your achievements and tie that in to the main message of the story (i.e. why medicine is right for you).

I'm im 9th grade and I have literally planned for my whole career with the help of this channel. Thank you much for providing such large quantitie of free knowledge.

I needed this!! Thanks MSI

This video gave me a boost of motivation. Especially after the recent spring semester I just had. THANK YOU!

Thank you for this valuable insight. 😊

Using this video to help me apply for residency

The in-state bias is very apparent and in my opinion, a good thing. I applied to 18 medical schools this cycle and only got into 1 - my in-state school.

ER doctor here ! I was an Hispanic Immigrant McDonalds worker and now a physician ! I have lots to say on this topic ! Long story short they do want the minority student BUT only if you also have those objective metrics ! Long story short doesn't matter how nice you are, how hard you worked on top of school, how you came from a humble background how you work at prestigious palaces, etc if you don't have the numbers BYE BYE ! NEXT ! So you are a number first and then they will care to learn about you ! Oh well my two cents so sad but is the truth ! Some are set up for failure and we must work 10x harder to just become equal ! Stay hungry, stay focused, and be willing to make sacrifices !

Hey! Could you do a video about the best and worst lifestyles ranked by surgical specialty? Would be very informative!

Definitely bookmarking this video for later!

Could you do a video for residency applications? Especially for students that don’t like research 🤐

I love watching this even tho I’m a psych and marketing major

I’m interested in primary care and underserved areas, so hopefully that will work in my favor. Also, I’m not surprised adcoms check social media, which isn’t an issue as I don’t use it. The narrative based application supports my advisor’s (who was in her school’s adcom) advice to have a compelling story, as that helped her get in with low stats. While GPA and MCAT are important, DO schools are more likely to consider other factors.