Medical School Admissions Consulting

Medical School Application Services

You know what you want to do: go to a top medical school, become a doctor, and have a successful and fulfilling life. There is just one thing standing in the way of your dream: acceptance to a top medical school.

You first have to go through the grueling application process, including taking classes and standardized tests, writing personal statements and other essays, revising your CV, choosing and coaching recommenders, and preparing for interviews. Top schools are incredibly competitive and accept only the best of the best. It’s an incredibly demanding and overwhelming process that leaves even the most determined and capable applicants stressed.

Why not take some of the stress out of the process and put your best application forward with Accepted’s team of expert medical school consultants?

Our medical school consulting team can help you show the admissions committee that you have what it takes to be an integral part of their class.

Learn more about the medical school admissions consulting services we offer.

Comprehensive Medical School Application Services

2-4 Year Premed Packages

Get consistent premed consulting advice for more than three years. Our advice will steer you toward building a solid profile based on a strong foundation–academically, clinically, and through community service. Through monthly consulting sessions, your expert med school advisor will guide your choices to achieve this goal. The invaluable support provided by a medical school admission advisor continues beyond primary applications and through secondaries. Interview preparation and decision counseling are also included with these premium consulting packages.

Medical School Primary Application Packages

This flat-rate, inclusive service includes comprehensive guidance, from concept to final review, for your primary medical school application or optional additional primary applications. The Primary + Secondary Application packages also include both secondary application support and interview prep – all on a flat-rate basis. Your consultant – an experienced med school admissions professional – will guide you in shaping a compelling portrait of yourself as a future leader in the medical field. These packages are one smart investment in your future career.

Medical School Secondary Application Packages

This flat-rate, inclusive service provides all the help you need–without watching the clock–as you plan and craft your secondary applications for medical school. This package includes secondary application strategy, advising and editing for up to 8 secondary applications, interview preparation, and decision counseling. Experience the confidence of knowing you're receiving expert advice every step of the way.

Medical School Residency/Fellowship Packages

Our Residency/Fellowship Application Package offers an unbeatable bundle of services designed to create a winning candidate profile for your chosen training programs. Your consultant will provide personal statement strategizing; personal statement review and editing; selection and editing of your experiences section; final review of your residency/fellowship application so you can submit with confidence; application resume advising and editing; and interview prep.

Postbac Application Package

Navigate the CAS application system or non-CAS postbac applications and beyond with no clock ticking. Highly experienced in the postbac admissions process, your admissions consultant will assist you with school selection; ideas for your essays, as well as outlining and editing; editing of activity descriptions; mock interview; final application review; and more. Leave your stress behind as you focus on building the best postbac application possible.

Physician Assistant (PA) Application Package

Our deeply knowledgeable medical school admissions consulting team will help you optimize your physician assistant application, beginning with application strategy; school selection; essay mapping and editing; secondary essay planning; interview prep; and more. With the support of your Accepted consultant, you'll be able to focus on drafting an outstanding application as you prepare for this fulfilling career as a Physician Assistant.

Med School Reapplication Packages

If you applied to medical school previously and unfortunately received rejections, it’s time to reapply, but this time with an experienced medical school admissions advisor on your side. Your consultant will start with a rejection review, and once you identify your weaknesses and areas for improvement, it’s time to work on your personal statement, activities, and most meaningful experiences. Depending on the package you choose, you may also receive advising and editing for your secondary applications, interview prep, waitlist advice, and decision counseling.

Services for Individual Medical School Application Components

Medical School Admissions Consulting Hourly Services

Is med school the right decision for you? If so, where should you apply? How can you maximize your appeal to your target programs? How can you mitigate weaknesses? Our medical school admissions consulting services will help answer any and all questions you have about making this major decision. Your consultant will review your full profile, from academics, extracurricular activities, clinical exposure, research, to community service, and guide your approach to the medical school application process.

CV/Resume Services

This element of your medical school application is usually the first thing admissions committees look at, so you want to dazzle them with your experience and qualifications. Choose from a comprehensive flat-rate package or an hourly service–whichever suits your needs. Both options save time while ensuring your achievements and impact stand out distinctly, adding excitement to your entire med school application.

Med School Application Essay Services

Let our medical school consultants help you brainstorm ideas based on your experience and goals, while guiding you through the writing process so that you tell your story with authenticity and impact. You'll emerge with an engaging, substantive, and compelling essay. Flat-rate packages provide comprehensive assistance with no clock ticking; hourly options can help you polish an essay you've already drafted.

Letters of Recommendation Services

Unsure what to write for a student you're recommending? Want an expert to review or polish your letter to ensure it hits all the high points for your medical school applicant? Our LOR packages pair you with a med school admissions consultant who will interview you and draft an outline for the letter, and then edit your draft. This package ensures a strong, effective LOR for your candidate.

Med School Application Final Check

Don't hit “submit” until you've had an Accepted medical school consultant provide a final check for your application. We'll review and critique your essays, resume, and responses to short-answer and optional questions. If any part of your application seems wobbly, we'll offer specific recommendations to get it on firmer ground. We'll give you the green light when your self-portrait shows the adcom that you belong at their top school of medicine!

Med School Interview Prep

Ace your interview after prepping with one of our med school admissions experts–they know what you can expect and provide you with a dress rehearsal and meaningful feedback to strengthen your interview skills and calm your nerves. Your medical school interview consultant will review your submitted primary and secondary application to help you put your best foot forward. Depending on the service you select, you can have 1-3 mock interviews so that you walk into your real medical school interview, calm, prepared, and ready for prime time.

Med School Waitlist Strategy

Want to move from “Waitlisted” to “Accepted?” Our waitlist strategy services provide a review of your application materials and offer editing and/or consultation and guidance on writing a waitlist letter. This proven service saves time, eases worry, and strengthens your appeal to the programs who are still interested in you.

Med School Rejection Review

If you plan to reapply after a med school rejection, this service is essential. Your consultant will review your medical school admissions profile, critique one primary application and up to two secondary/supplemental applications, identifying weaknesses in your qualifications and your presentation of those qualifications. You'll learn how to bolster your application essays, CV, interview skills, and letters of recommendation, mitigate weaknesses and highlight your unique strengths, boosting your chances for acceptance in the next application cycle.

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Meet Our Medical School Admissions Advisors

Get the support of an experienced advisor and dedicated personal coach. Our consulting experts are trained professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, including former admissions directors, published authors, and PhDs. They know what works — and what doesn’t.

Barry Rothman

Barry Rothman

Barry’s clients have successfully applied to MD, MD/PhD, dental, vet, pharm, PA, PT, nursing, optometry, podiatry, PhD, and MPH programs. He is an emeritus professor of biology, former health professions advisor, and former director of three post-bac programs at San Francisco State Univ. whose post-bacs had an 80% success rate. His Accepted clients have an even higher rate. He has his PhD in biochemistry from CalTech and conducted biomedical research at CalTech, UTMB Galveston, UC San Francisco, and SFSU.

Learn more about Dr. Barry S. Rothman, Ph.D.

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Cydney Foote

Having served on admissions committees at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine and the curriculum development team at the UW School of Dentistry, Cydney uses her more than two decades of real-world admissions expertise to pinpoint what is unique about her clients’ stories and help them present their authentic voice. She has advised hundreds of successful applicants to MD, DO, and other healthcare programs in the United States and Canada and authored three e-books on medical education.

Learn more about Cydney Foote.

Flash Gordon

Herman "Flash" Gordon

Flash applies his teaching of problem-solving and strategic thinking to helping clients present their most compelling stories to admissions committees. A tenured faculty member at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, he was also the admissions committee chair and a neuroscience graduate admissions committee member. He earned his biochemistry AB from Harvard College and his developmental neuroscience PhD from Caltech and was a postdoctoral fellow at both the MRC Cell Biophysics Unit (London) and UCSF.

Learn more about Dr. Herman Gordon.

Madison Searle

Madison Searle

As a former director for three undergraduate honors programs at the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin, Madison read more than 5,000 applications while also advising students applying to graduate and professional programs. He has taught writing seminars to pre-med students and is a freelance writer himself. His goal is to help applicants communicate clearly, concisely, and in their authentic voice. He has helped hundreds of pre-health professional students prepare for and apply to medical, dental, veterinary, and pharmacy schools.

Learn more about Madison Searle.

Mary Mahoney

Mary Mahoney

Mary earned her PhD from the University of Houston and her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is director of medical humanities at a liberal arts college in New York and has been a tenured English professor, specializing in the personal essay, for more than 20 years. She also teaches narrative medicine, empathy, health equity, disparity, bias, and social justice. She specializes in helping medical school, psychology, and humanities grad school applicants, with whom she has a high success rate.

Learn more about Dr. Mary Mahoney.

Valerie Wherley

Valerie Wherley

As the former assistant dean of student affairs at the William Beaumont School of Medicine and former director of pre-health advisement and the Postbaccaulaureate Certificate Program at Sacred Heart University, Valerie brings more than 20 years of success working with pre-health candidates in medicine, dental, vet, PA, PT, OT, exercise science, and nursing. Her clients appreciate her expertise in the holistic admissions process and her patient, thoughtful, strategic, and data driven working style.

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Here is what some of Accepted's satisfied clients have to say about working with us through the medical school application process:

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Some of the Med Schools Our Clients Have Been Accepted to...

Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Harvard Medical School
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Weill Cornell Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Duke University School of Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - UCSF School of Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - University of Michigan Medical School
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Yale University School of Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - University of Penssylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Logo of Med School Accepted's Clients Have Been Admitted To - Stanford School of Medicine

Why Do You Need Medical School Application Assistance?

The medical school application process is long, complicated, expensive, and hard. Competition is intense, and the acceptance rate for many medical schools is under 10%. In fact, for U.S. News ranked medical schools, the average acceptance rate is just 5.5%!

But you don’t need to go through the application process alone. Give yourself every possible chance for success and know that you put together the best possible application to med school by working with an expert medical school admissions consultant, like the ones at Accepted.

Increase your chance of acceptance and reduce the possibility of rejection and an expensive reapplication. Let our medical school admissions consulting team help you get into the best medical school for you so you can become the best doctor you can be.

Why Choose Accepted for Medical School Admissions Consulting

Our expert medical school admissions consultants -- physicians, former postbac directors, admissions committee directors and members, published authors, and highly experienced consultants – collectively have over 100 years of med school admissions experience. We've guided thousands of medical school applicants worldwide to acceptances at 200 medical schools since 1994, and we are ready to help you, too.

How we work with our clients is straightforward. From the start, you work one-on-one with an experienced medical school consultant to create the best possible med school application so you can submit it with confidence. You also have the entire Accepted medical school admissions consulting team on your side. Together we create a detailed plan to guide you through the medical school admissions process, and enhance your chances of acceptance. You go through the med school application process with clarity, not confusion; confidence, not stress.

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