what are the top five reasons most medical school applicants get rejected every year and how can you
avoid those same mistakes so you can significantly increase your chance of admissions that's what I
want to talk to you about today but first I'd like to introduce myself my name is burrows
mamani I am the CEO and founder here at BeMo or BeMo academic consulting where we help students
with admissions to highly competitive graduate and professional programs students know normally
seek our help because they want to make sure that they can make their application stand out and they
want to prepare for their Casper test or in their interviews to make sure that they could put their
best foot forward and avoid the dreaded rejection letter and of course the headache and extra time
and money that comes with it so going back to our question what are those top five things so
here they are I want to introduce them to you so that you could learn from the mistake of others
and hopefully you will avoid all of them the number one reason is applying to medical schools
way too late so if you apply too late because of the rolling admissions process your chances keep
getting less and less as time passes of course it doesn't also allow you to have sufficient
amount of time to put together the best possible application because as you procrastinate you're
gonna start feeling this nervousness inside and of course eventually you have to rush your
applications and that's not a good idea at all the next reason is applying to inappropriate schools
now what I mean by that is sometimes soon as I get rejected start carpet-bombing every school
they know instead of being choosy about the schools that want to apply to you they apply
to schools where they don't meet their average accepted GPA MCAT scores or worse they don't meet
their mission statements for example if the school says that's explicitly that they are looking for
applicants from rural areas and you don't have any experience in rural areas it's not usually
a good idea to apply in those for those type of schools the next common mistake is so this is the
third one is including inappropriate experiences in their application documents such as the work
activity section what I mean by that is is for example sometimes applicants include every single
experience they've had instead of being very choosy about what they want to disclose you want
to make sure that you only include experiences that are going to help your application and they
show very clear progression and commitment over time those are the type of activities that you
want to include and you probably should avoid the rest of them so we have to be very choosy
less is more in this case the next sort of problem or reason I should say rather that
students get rejected is submitting application documents that are not proof read and they're
not in good order so their written documents are not really as good as they could be they have poor
spelling poor grammar poor structure and that's a huge huge mistake because remember your written
application document is actually a test of your communication skills so the last thing you want
is to rush it and or not have someone who's got an expert eye to review it for you and give you
feedback and this usually actually takes several weeks sometimes several months and well think
about it everyone has an edit area so even if you could think of them a most proficient author above
time if you open up their book you'll see they'll have the name and the title of the editor of the
book this is really important so make sure you have someone review your application documents
and the last reason most students get rejected is because they don't pay attention to the questions
that are being asked this is usually evident in personal statements or secondary essays or any
essay type questions where the admissions officers are asking you a specific question and asking you
to write a brief essay or a short personal statement about it if you don't follow the
instructions and you either don't understand they will assume that you either don't understand the
question which is of course really bad or that they feel that you are actively avoiding the
question both of those scenarios are really bad so what every question you have you have to make
sure that your response addresses it and addresses that directly explicitly and hopefully with some
personal examples so those were the five reasons most students get rejected every year based on our
experience of helping thousands of students every single year and I hope that you enjoyed this video
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