Author Archives: J.J. Lizardi

Whether you’re applying to medical school for the first time or you’re a seasoned applicant, you should give a good amount of time and energy to creating your personal statement. This can be seen as the medical school “elevator pitch”. You are granted 5,300 characters to make the very best first impression possible. While youContinue reading “Writing Your Personal Statement”

This might be the very best advice I have ever gotten for studying for the MCAT. My roommate, who I met via the master’s program I took, was in a similar place as me. He, however, was able to get a 514 on his MCAT before I my third attempt. I was fucking blown awayContinue reading “Focus on your Strengths, not your Weaknesses”

When I started waking up at 4-AM to study I was not just willy-nilly going through the motions of doing U-World practice problems. I had a very rigorous plan set in place which made sense to me. As I’ve mentioned before, getting up hours before the sun also served as a way to increase myContinue reading “*Perfect* Practice Makes Perfect”

I wanted to touch base on the kind of routine that I used to study for the MCAT first, but now I want to touch on the specific test preparation I actually took. Which, I think will be different for everyone, but given that I’ve tried my hand at several different test prep companies andContinue reading “Strategy”

First things first, set a goal for yourself. Think long and hard about what kind of outcome you would like for yourself. At this point in your life, you should have a very good idea of what kind of student you are. You should know how you deal with standardized test and how comfortable youContinue reading “Pre-MCAT”

This is a concept most of you may already be familiar with. Chances are you exemplified it as soon as you decided to read this post. Instead of mulling over the decision to do something about your current state of mind, you cleared your mental palate, pulled the trigger, and opened this bad boy up.Continue reading “Pull The Trigger”

As you delve into this website, you may be asking yourself one pretty obvious question, who does this guy think he is? Trying to tell me how to get into medical school!? It’s the very first question I would ask if I were in your position. Given that you did visit this website and startedContinue reading “Click Me First”