Newly revised and updated for 1998, The Definitive Guide to Medical School Admission is now in its 4th printing. This book offers a review of the entire process of applying to medical school based on the 19 years that Dr. Goldstein has served as a premedical advisor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This all-inclusive planning guide is useful for anyone interested in applying to medical school, as well as a valuable resource for high school guidance counselors and premedical advisors.
Chapters include information on the following:
- Criteria used to judge applicants
- Secrets of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
- The personal statement, including examples
- The interview
- Issues unique to minority students, older applicants, and women
- How to choose a medical school
- Applying to foreign medical schools
- Financing medical school
- Rejection and whether to reapply or seek alternative career choices
Dr. Mark Goldstein is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Pediatrics and Student Health Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he has been a pre-medical advisor for 19 years. He is also on the faculty of the Janeway Medical Service at Children's Hospital in Boston and on the staff of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is editor of the recently published book Our Baby: The First Year.
Myrna Chandler Goldstein is a columnist, correspondent, and feature writer for the Community Newspaper Company. Her work has appeared in numerous national and regional publications. She is the author of Massachusetts Medical Society At Twentieth Century Close: Organizational Struggles in Support of Patient Care, a book about the recent history of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine.
A wise, well-written and well-organized guide
to the medical school application process.
A must read for any college or high school student
planning to apply to medical school.
DANIEL A. POLLEN, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
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