With a consistently competitive pool of applicants submitting essays to top medical schools each year, it is essential to gain a high-level understanding of what a successful application reads like.

In writing a college or graduate school application essay (or job application), there can be a temptation to write whatever will “work,” that is “get you in” to a more selective college than would ...

As an internal medicine resident physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston — and as a premed tutor at Harvard — Ahmed Mukhtar Ahmed, MD, understands ...

Medical school applications have skyrocketed. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the number of applications in this last year’s admissions cycle was up 18% over the previous ...