You block off an entire Sunday afternoon to tackle the beast that is the AMCAS—the centralized medical school application. You’re clicking through the online form, filling in the boxes until you get to the page titled “Volunteering and Shadowing.” You stop there. Are you worried that when it comes time to document your exposure to the […]
As a pre-med student, choosing a major may be one of the most important decisions you make. While there are certain majors that lend themselves to helping you complete your prerequisite classes for medical school and prepare for the MCAT, there isn’t a singular path for medical school admission, and that’s a good thing. The […]
Since medical schools are inundated with applications, most admissions committees use the medical school interview as the final cut. Whereas the initial step in the med school admissions process (reviewing your numbers) may seem impersonal, the interview introduces an element of humanity—it’s where you can let your personality and charm shine through. Once you have […]
Getting ready to take the LSAT is a stressful time; there’s a lot riding on this test, and the combination of unfamiliar question types, strict time constraints, and high pressure can be tough to take. But law school is tough, too; most law students and lawyers would agree that law school is much harder than […]
An ACT Superscore is the compilation of a student’s best section scores over multiple ACT administrations. ACT has determined that the method of superscoring a student’s ACT scores is a better indicator of college academic success than other scoring methods (such as taking a student’s best individual ACT score or most recent individual ACT score). […]
For Section II, the AP Biology free-response section, you’ll have 80 minutes (after the reading period) to answer six questions. You will likely spend more time on each of the two long free-response questions than on each of the four short-response questions. A fair balance is 22 minutes per long free-response question and 9 minutes […]
There’s a good way and a bad way to skip the Introduction to Biology class in college. Here’s the good way: Skip the whole Introduction to Biology experience entirely—hundreds of students crammed into an auditorium, the tiny dot that is the professor just visible down in front of an ocean of seats—by getting a good […]
Although you might not like multiple-choice questions, there’s no denying the fact that guessing is easier on a multiple-choice question than it is on an essay question or a problem set. On a multiple-choice problem, the answer is always there in front of you; the trick is to find it amongst the forest of incorrect […]
There is more to the AP Chemistry exam than chemistry know-how. You have to be able to work around the challenges and pitfalls of the test—and there are many—if you want your score to reflect your abilities. You see, studying chemistry and preparing for the AP Chemistry exam are not the same thing. Rereading your […]
Even nonbiologists know that the world constantly changes. Fifteen years ago there weren’t many cell phones. There weren’t many standardized tests, either. Nowadays, you can’t go a semester of school without taking some letter-jumble exam like the PSAT, SAT, ACT, BLAM, ZORK, or FWOOSH (some of those tests are fake, some aren’t). And right after […]