Premeds are often told they need to "stand out" in their med school applications. Today we review the app of a student with a 3.79 GPA and 514 MCAT who hasn't gotten any interviews, likely because she approached her app with this mindset.

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Our student this week applied in this most recent med school application cycle for the first time, to both U.S. and Canadian medical schools. She's gotten no interviews here in the U.S., where she applied to eight MD schools. She thinks it may have been due to struggling to convey her story in a way that caught attention.

While walking through her entire AMCAS application, we discuss:

• Why admissions committees may scrutinize your app more than usual if you have a parent who is a physician.
• When projecting out the date for ongoing activities on your app, do you project out the hours, too?
• Which activities should you select as your "most meaningful," and which are poor choices?
• Which *kinds* of stories should you focus on in your activity descriptions?
• What you need to avoid to make sure your stories don't drag on without any purpose or impact.
• Should you even list an activity on your app if it was only 6 hours?
• Do you need formal shadowing if you've observed doctors through clinical jobs and other experiences?
• Can you extract some hours from a job in a clinical setting to list separately as "shadowing" on your app?
• Why you should be careful with highlighting personal strengths or characteristics by name ("dedicated," "passionate," etc) in your med school app.
• How to convey your passion for medicine in a way that is actually unique to you and allows the admissions committee to connect with you through your app.
• Which kinds of generic sentences and explanations should be removed from a personal statement?
• How to write a conclusion for a medical school personal statement.
• Are any medical schools truly "out of reach" when you have a 3.8 GPA and a 514 MCAT?

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