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Moving Cross Country for School or a Job

If you’re moving cross country after graduating from college it’s probably for an exciting reason. You snagged your first “big” job (yay!) or you’re starting graduate school (yay!)… Either way, you have to pack up and haul yourself, and all your stuff, across hundreds or thousands of miles. Moving to college might have been complicated, but […]

How to Study the Week Before the NCLEX

Preparing for NCLEX can be a daunting task. With NCLEX only a week away, it may be challenging to maintain the study momentum you had when you first began studying. But, you’re approaching the finish line and can’t stop now! Hopefully you have been committed to a study plan in the weeks prior. With one […]

Pre-Med: Does Research Experience Matter?

As a pre-med, there is an expectation that you will pursue a medical research internship at some point during your undergraduate career or before applying to medical school. Among the many medical internships available to undergraduates, research experience on campus, typically in a wet lab, are some of the most sought-after. More than that, most […]

Pre-Med: How to Prepare for Shadowing

You’ve done the research and doctor outreach, and you’re getting ready for your very first day of shadowing a physician. Get ready to peek behind the curtain of what patient care looks like from the point of view of a clinician. Shadowing a doctor is your opportunity to learn about the practice of medicine, what […]

Pre-Med: Shadowing a Doctor

While it may not be a mandatory part of your application to medical school, you will want to spend time shadowing a physician as part of your pre-med experience and education. In addition to experiencing primary patient-care firsthand through pre-med clinical experience, adding shadowing hours to your resume is going to enhance your understanding of […]

A Typical Week for First-Year Medical Students

Hear from med student, Kevin Yang, about what an average week for a first year med student looks like. As an incoming student rep, I have the pleasure of contacting the incoming class of medical students. After their initial elation, they pose a myriad of questions. The most popular of those questions: “What is life […]

How to Overcome Competitiveness in Law School

Practicing law and being competitive go together. After all, your goal as a future lawyer is to win—win for your client, win for your firm, win for yourself. The law is often a zero-sum game and that means there are winners and losers. So you might think law school is like this too — a […]

How to Study the Week Before the ACT

It’s the week before the ACT, and you might feel like your study time is running out. There’s no need to panic, but it’s important to take advantage of every day you have left. Review the test maker’s official guide to read the directions for the test several times. Make sure you know where and […]

The Week Before the SHSAT

The week before the SHSAT, focus your time and energy on the following: Focus on strategy and backup plans. Practice the strategies you had the best success rate with. Decide and know exactly how you are going to approach each section and question type. Sit down and do practice problems in the Practice Sets, or […]

What's on the SHSAT: Math

There’s a lot of math out there. Someday you may need or may choose to immerse yourself in the intricacies of number theory or multivariable calculus. However, for the purposes of the SHSAT Math section, you need to know a relatively small subset of all of the math out there. You are not permitted to use […]