Introduction and Disclaimer

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While completing my undergrad course work, I spent a lot of time researching info about medical school admissions, talking with med students, physicians, advisors and admissions people, and reading much on the subject.

Some of my fellow pre-med students suggested that I should put together a website and I decided that this would be a great way to compile all the info I had gathered into an easy-to-read format (which took me several years to accumulate bit by bit). So, I spend about 2 months planning (part-time) and then 3 months during the summer (full-time) programming the system and writing the content and more time yet to update things on an ongoing basis. The site officially launched August 2005 and is still growing and being improved almost weekly (or at least monthly) by adding more features, info and data. Also, more and more current medical students are contributing to this site by posting their student profiles and perspectives and making student diary entries.

My initial intent was to provide a cohesive site that sort of covers Admissions to medical school from A to Z in a comprehensive fashion.
Obviously, there is great variation in experiences between applicants and some people may agree or disagree to some exent on certain issues (how important is shadowing, etc. for example). I present my views and what I have gathered from others who were successfully admitted throughout the years. (Sort of like a mini meta-analysis of people I knew, met or read about.)

When I went through the application process just recently myself (I'm a second year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin), the last thing I wanted to hear was "it depends" or "whatever you want to do". I wanted to set specific goals for my pre-med preparation that I could meet and exceed.

It took a lot of time to accumulate this information and it helped me to prepare well for the admission process at different schools.
Much of the advice is very detailed, step-by-step and may be too detailed for some and too basic for others. However, I found in my own search that the more info and the more detail I had, the better.