Mara came to college with a passion to be a doctor. Her parents and friends told her college was a place to find herself, to make friends, maybe find love, so she signed up as a biology major– though the college had been on the US News and World Report’s list of best Midwest […]
The New York Times reported in 2012 that 15% of students going to medical school had completed a post bacc program, and from 2009 to 2012, the number of postbac premed programs had grown 45%. Post Bacc programs have continued to expand ever since, which allows for many people who might have been excluded to […]
Not all medical students are same. You may be ready to begin medical school but don’t fit into the category of “traditional medical school applicant.” For instance, have you: Finished your undergraduate program, with all the pre-med courses, perhaps with excellent grades but didn’t apply for medical school in the traditional time frame? Haven’t completed […]
