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Premed Prep: Advice From A Medical School Admissions Dean
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About Premed Prep: Advice From A Medical School
Product Description If you’re a student hoping to apply to medical school, you might be anxious or stressed about how best to prepare. What classes should you take? What kinds of research, clinical, and volunteer opportunities should you be pursuing? What grades and MCAT scores do you need? How can you stand out among thousands of applicants? Premed Prep answers all these questions and more, with detailed case studies and insider tips that can help premed students authentically prepare and enjoy the journey from the very beginning. Sunny Nakae draws from her many years of experience as a medical school admissions dean to offer wise and compassionate advice that can help premed students of all backgrounds. She also has specific tips for students who are first-generation, minority, non-traditional, and undocumented. Both forthright and supportive, Nakae’s advice is offered in a keep-it-real style that gives premed students a unique window into how admissions committees view and assess them. Premed Prep covers how to approach preparation with a focus on exploration and growth, and how to stop obsessing over med school application checklists. This book will do more than help you get a seat in medical school; it will start you on the process of becoming a successful future physician. Review "Sunny Nakae draws on her years of experience as a medical school admissions officer, balancing wise advice with a personal perspective to help guide readers through this stressful process. With a positive, encouraging tone and an emphasis on self-care, Premed Prep is a fun, helpful resource for any student looking to apply to medical school." -- Glenn Cummings ― Associate Dean and Director of Health Professions Advising at Bryn Mawr College About the Author SUNNY NAKAE, Ph.D., M.S.W., is the Senior Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Partnership, and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the California University of Science and Medicine. Prior to joining CUSM she served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine where she held an adjunct appointment as Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Population and Public Health. She has previously held administrative positions at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One Premed Basics Be Quick, But Don't Hurry The prevailing advice I give about academic progress in premedical preparation is a quote from the great John Wooden, one of the most successful basketball coaches in NCAA history, “Be quick, but don’t hurry.” This seems contradictory, but in fact it’s not. Go as fast as you can without your speed compromising your performance. If you sacrifice performance for speed it will not pay off. If you are in a hurry, you might make mistakes and not perform your best. This will lead to having to spend extra time addressing deficits, and that does not actually help you in the long run. What is the point of graduating in four years with a 2.9 GPA? You will just end up taking at least a year of post baccalaureate courses to really show you are prepared. Better to be intentional about your pace from day one. My second most salient piece of advice is this: Your GPA will NOT get you in, but it can keep you out. You absolutely must safeguard your GPA during this process. The GPA is like a token that unlocks consideration for admission. Think of it like a key that determines how much the door is open. A lower GPA does not necessarily mean you’ll be excluded, but it will mean that the number of schools that will consider you will be fewer than if your GPA were higher. Notice I said consideration. Schools typically prioritize their candidates by GPA to varying degrees, at least initially. How much consideration you re
