<p>Updated Timetable with additional posters (somemom, curmudgeon, bludevilmike, twomules) input. Did we forget anything else?</p>
<p>FIRST YEAR:
-You need to know and be aware of the requirements: 1 year bio, 1 year chem, 1 year ochem, 1 year physics, 1 year calc, 1 year English (Other additional courses may be required by different schools)
-Volunteer in a hospital, medically related internships or interactive opportunities.
-Get involve in research experience, that can be bench or clinical.
-Continue with your favorites ECs.
-Develop networking and good rapport with professors.</p>
<p>SECOND YEAR:
-Volunteer in a hospital, medically related internships or interactive opportunities.
-Get involve in research experience, that can be bench or clinical. (see post # 24).
<a href=“Search Results for REU Sites | NSF - National Science Foundation”>REU Sites | NSF - National Science Foundation;
<p>-Continue with your favorites ECs.
-Develop networking you will need letter of recommendations.
-Plan to make time to study for and take the MCAT such that you have your results no later than June at the end of year 3.
-November (Second year):
–You should have a quick list of your extracurricular activities put together.
-December (Second year):
–You should have a first draft of your essay</p>
<p>THIRD YEAR:
-Volunteering in a hospital, medically related internships or interactive opportunities.
-Get involve in research experience that can be bench or clinical (see post # 24).
<a href=“Search Results for REU Sites | NSF - National Science Foundation”>REU Sites | NSF - National Science Foundation;
-Continue with your favorites ECs.
-MARCH & APRIL (Third year):</p>
<p>– You should have a rough list of schools.
–Read “MCAT essentials”: <a href=“http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/mcatessentials.pdf[/url]”>http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/mcatessentials.pdf</a>
–Take MCAT: Consensus that you should take your MCAT during your sophomore-junior year. Many schools do not accept MCAT exam scores that are more than three years old.
—“Medical school admission officers usually suggest that you take the test in the calendar year prior to the year in which you plan to enter medical school… An earlier test date is also recommended because it permits examinees who feel that their scores do not accurately reflect their abilities to retest in the summer or fall. Later scores may then be submitted to medical schools in the same application year as the earlier scores.” Preparing for the MCAT Exam FAQ - MCAT - AAMC
–Letter of Recommendations - Develop networking you will need LOR:-Spend spring term requesting and gathering “Letter of recommendations” so you have them in hand by June 1.
– Personal Statements (PS) - Begin writing the PS, have it read and edited by others.
–You should be finalizing your essay.
–Go to “student doctor network” (SDN) forums to be familiar with school’s prompts or E- mail an older student to get as many secondary essay topics as possible.
–Read SDN sample secondaries (school prompts) and begin outlining your answers for potential secondaries. </p>
<p>MAY:
-During May 2011, you should open up a TX or AMCAS account. This will be quite easy if you’ve already taken the MCAT, which I hope you have.</p>
<p>JUNE & JULY:
–Ideally you’d have an MCAT score by June.
–On June 8: Apply AMCAS or TX- This includes a list of schools, a list of EC’s, your grades, a TRANSCRIPT REQUEST, and your essay…
–Begin secondaries, turn them around in a few days each and be ever so grateful if you spent time in the spring coming up with ideas for answers.
–On June 15: Many schools with “Open” secondaries (non-screening) you should look carefully through the website of every school you applied to see if the application is open yet. You should take no more than two weeks to fill out any secondary. Otherwise they accumulate. Rumors – which I find credible – also say that schools use secondaries as an indication of your interest.
–You should be completely done with all primaries and secondaries by the time school starts.</p>
<p>FOURTH YEAR:
-Volunteering in a hospital, medically related internships or interactive opportunities.
-Get involve in research experience, that can be bench or clinical.
-Continue with your favorites ECs.
–Best wishes!</p>