MEDICAL SCHOOL Admissions CONSULTING

Applying to medical school is a two-year project. Most people treat it like a deadline.

I work one-on-one with a small number of applicants — MD, DO, and MD/PhD, through AMCAS, TMDSAS, and AACOMAS — to build an application that survives a screen, earns interviews, and holds up under questioning. First-time applicants, reapplicants, career changers and postbacs, and BS/MD undergraduates already on a combined track.

I do not take every student who reaches out. If your file isn't ready for this cycle, the honest answer is usually to wait a year and build — and I would rather tell you that for free than take your money for an outcome you don't want.

Then a free 45-minute video consultation.

Two professionals seated at a desk in a bright, modern office, engaged in a collaborative discussion with laptops

The screen is mechanical

Most schools filter on GPA, science GPA, and MCAT before a human reads a word. Strategy starts with knowing honestly where you land and building a list around it.

Then it is entirely human

Past the screen, admissions committees are reading for judgment, motivation, and whether they believe you. That is written work, and it is where most applications quietly fail.

Timing decides outcomes

Rolling admissions punishes late submissions. An application complete in June is a different application than the identical one complete in September.

THE WORK

What we actually do together

Every engagement is built around where you are in the cycle. These are the pieces, which we can sprint toward or approach as passively as you'd like.

Candidacy review
& school list

An honest read of your metrics, coursework, and experience against real admissions data — then a list built by mission fit, state residency, and screen thresholds rather than reputation.

INCLUDES

GPA / sGPA / MCAT positioning, including retake decisions
MD vs. DO vs. MD/PhD strategy
Gap-year, postbac, and SMP planning when the file needs repair

The primary
application

The personal statement and the Work & Activities section, built from your actual experience, not a template and allocated so no two boxes tell the same story.

INCLUDES

Personal statement brainstorming, outlining, and edits
All 15 activity entries and the Most Meaningful essays
Institutional action, disadvantaged, and unique circumstances where appropriate.

Secondaries at
volume

Twenty schools can mean over a dozen writing pro-blems and variations. As you draft against the exact prompts, a second editing faculty will writing turn-time to September.

INCLUDES

Why Us, adversity, diversity, conflict, and sacrifice prompts
A cross-essay map so nothing repeats across the file
Strategic advice on where essays can complete early

Interview
preparation

Traditional, panel, MMI, and CASPer-adjacent scenarios. Mock interviews with recorded feedback are the way the actual programs run them.

INCLUDES

Rubric and judgment exercise review, including MMI
The questions your specific list assigns
Post-interview letters of intent and update letters

Reapplicant
strategy

If the cycle did not work, the post-mort diagnoses the fatal (and usually hidden) — metrics, the timing, or writing — which un-addressed will ruin next cycle too.

INCLUDES

Full audit of the prior cycle's list and materials
A bullet plan for what changed this year
Crucial focus on where the writing was the problem

Deadlines and
accountability

A hard plan for the whole cycle, with check-ins that track all the steps, transcripts, letter writers, and secondaries down to a T.

FIT

I don't work with everyone who reaches out

The most common reason I turn someone away has nothing to do with effort. It's that they are unrealistic about applying now versus needing another year to develop into a competitive applicant. If your metrics won't produce an admissions outcome this cycle, my fees are not cheap and I don't want you spending that money on a result you aren't looking for.

Sometimes waiting is the best strategy available to you. If that's what I see, I'll say so in our first conversation, before either of us has committed to anything.

I MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF you:

Have done, or are actively doing, the clinical and service work — not planning to start it once we sign.

Want an honest read of your chances more than you want reassurance.

Are willing to apply to schools that will actually take you, alongside the ones you dream about.

Do their own writing. I coach, question, and edit — I do not ghostwrite, and committees can tell.

understand the value of investing in the strategic work, opinions, and true direction by a consultant in your current context.

I'M NOT THE RIGHT FIT IF you:

Want someone to write the application for you.

Are looking for a yes-man. You are not open to any pushback or to do a heavy editing unearthing.

Have a parent who is driving the process and you, the student are not in the room.

Pretend to know the answer and lack readiness to iterate for true success.

Have a timeline that is just 6-8 weeks and you are not willing to play the long game.

THE FIRST MEETING

What the initial consultation is — and what it isn't

Right after we connect, it's a 45-min, no-charge discussion over Zoom. I read your pre-screen before we meet, so we spend the time on you rather than on data collection. We speak so you can get a feel for how I operate and if my style is the right fit for your medical school applications. The student leads the conversation; parents are welcome to listen in. I want you to leave knowing exactly what working together would look like, whether or not we do it.

WHAT WE WILL COVER

Getting to know you. Why medicine, where the interest came from, and what your path has looked like so far.

Where you stand right now. A high-level read of your pre-med profile metrics and your timeline, based on what you submit via the intake.

Core needs. Experience, essay flow, theme, where gaps exist, and how my expertise will fit your circumstances.

Logistical constraints. When you'll have the space (shadow, clinical, etc), and what the schedule looks like.

Scope and investment. Which service level fits your situation, what it costs, and what the calendar looks like.

Whether it's a match. Both directions. You are interviewing me as much as I am getting to know you.

WHAT IT IS NOT

Not a consulting / advising session. I will not build your school list, outline your personal statement, or develop your overall strategy. This is the pre-work.

Not an assignment. Please don't send drafts ahead of time. I won't read them until we've agreed to work together.

Not a chances calculator. I will tell you honestly whether your file is competitive in broad terms. I can't give you a number, and I won't pretend to.

Not an assumed yes. I accept only a small number of new applicants a year so that I have the time to fully dedicate myself to your process. I may tell you I'm not the right person, or that the right move is to spend a year strengthening your file and apply next cycle. The answer is free, and it is often worth more than the engagement would have been.

01

Free 15-minute pre-screen

Eight questions. Enough for me to tell whether this cycle is the right cycle for you.

02

I read it and reply

Within two business days: a calendar link, or an honest note about why I'd wait.

03

We meet for 45 minutes

Student leads. Parents are welcome to listen, but I'll be talking to the applicant.

04

Full intake, if we proceed followed by onboard & process

A written scope and fee follows, then the long-form intake and a 15-minute quick call for logistics, tool set up, & review. That starts the real work.

Start with the pre-screen

Eight questions, about five minutes. It's what lets our first conversation start somewhere useful — and it's how I tell you early if this isn't your cycle.