20 Medical School Interview Questions You Should Prepare For

You’ve finally made it to your first round of interviews with medical schools. You persevered through the MCAT and those challenging pre-med courses and came up with a few effective strategies to ace your exams. Similar to your coursework so far, it’s essential to be strategic when approaching your medical school interviews. It’s common for

How to Increase Your MCAT Score: What Does the Blueprint Data Show?

The main goal of MCAT Prep is to improve your score from diagnostic/baseline test score to your official MCAT score. Many students wonder how to achieve a higher MCAT score and what they can do that will most help. If you are in a similar boat, this article is for you!  We Crunched the Numbers,

When MCAT Prep Isn’t Working

Almost everyone who took the MCAT has been there. You’re practicing passage upon passage for CARS and regularly taking FL exams, but you can’t get that score up. Every Chem/Phys section on every FL exam seems to have those select few topics you didn’t review hard enough and forgot a formula for. How do you

Surviving (and Thriving) After the MCAT

Written by Jamie L., Blueprint MCAT tutor, and Nikhil J., Blueprint MCAT instructor It’s finally over: you’ve taken your MCAT. Your flashcard streak lapses, your MCAT study schedule is blank, and you’re no longer spending hours reading internet posts on ways to improve your CARS timing. After the MCAT, it seems like the hard part

10 Reasons to Apply Early to Med School

The early bird gets the worm. You snooze, you lose. Day late and a dollar short. There’s a dozen different ways to say the same thing: don’t procrastinate! This tried and true advice holds up in almost everything, but it is especially important for MCAT prep and med school applications!  Whether you’re going MD or

Top Med Schools in California

California, with its scenery, sunshine, celebrities, and progressive politics, is one of the most desirable college destinations. It is, after all, a popular—if not the most popular—tourist destination, the third largest state, and the largest economy in the United States.  California is proud to be health conscious. It’s actually a “running” joke (pun alert!) that

Debunking Common Myths About the MCAT

Top Med Schools in New York

New York is brimming with excellent colleges, a vibrant cultural scene, and abundant opportunities. If you are in the hustle of applying to medical schools, New York is the ideal choice for several reasons.  New York has 18 prestigious medical schools. This means it has the highest number of medical schools compared to any other