How Premeds Can Avoid 4 Common Academic Mistakes

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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“Prospective medical school students can take steps to minimize poor academic performance in college.” …

https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/medical-school-admissions-doctor/articles/2018-05-22/how-premed-students-can-avoid-4-common-academic-mistakes

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Excellent article. Personally I’d like to group those mistakes into these 4 categories.

  1. GPA - this is the most unforgiving part (compared to MCAT or ECs). Common mistakes such as taking too many pre-med weeding classes at the same time, underestimate the extremely harsh grading in weeding classes, double or even triple major, engineering major, rush to finish undergrad in less than 4 yrs.
  2. MCAT - taking MCAT without proper prep and consistently scoring at/above target level in full-length tests, taking MCAT multiple times without significant improvement.
  3. ECs - doing too many ECs at same time, thinking research can save them from subpar GPA.
  4. Applying - rush to apply without good GPA/MCAT/ECs, apply too late in the cycle, top-heavy school list (only top-tier), too few schools.