Hillary Weiss PhD Master Writing Advisor | MedSchoolCoach

Hillary Weiss PhDWriting Advisor

Dr. Weiss has over ten years of experience teaching, tutoring, and editing academic writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has collaboratively assisted many students gain acceptance to their top choice schools.

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Since Dr. Weiss was a child, she has been an avid reader and wished to teach, especially students who disliked reading and writing due to harsh feedback or never being able to explore their own interests through these skills. After completing her double major in secondary education and English, she pursued her Master’s in literary and textual studies. As Dr. Weiss completed her MA and taught first-year writing to undergraduate students, she discovered her passions: making concrete change, particularly through research-based DEI curricula and projects, and providing compassionate, individualized assistance to help students realize their goals. She then specialized in rhetoric and composition and completed her Ph.D. in 2020. She continues to teach online and face-to-face writing and communications courses at various universities as a full-time professor.
 
After advising medical and dental students on their personal statements as a writing center tutor, Dr. Weiss applied to MedSchoolCoach, hoping to assist applicants who wished to prioritize caring for patients affected by social determinants of health. Today, she eagerly assists writers throughout the writing process—including overcoming writer’s block, procrastination, and self-doubt— and has taken a special interest in the AACOMAS and TMDSAS application processes. In addition to her editing skills, Dr. Weiss keeps students on track with her stellar organizational skills, attention to detail, and caring yet constructive feedback.
When not researching new information to share with her students and clients, Dr. Weiss spends her time reading, watching her favorite shows (documentaries, VICE News, John Oliver, anime, and The Great Canadian and British Baking Shows), learning something new on guitar, taking nature walks, searching for rocks and sea shells, playing various JRPGs and ARPGs, and cooking and baking. Most of all, she loves doing all of these things with her partner David and their cat Copper (whose full name cannot be shared here due to its silliness).
Note: Though “she” is used throughout this biography, Dr. Weiss uses she/they pronouns interchangeably.

Education

Undergraduate: Siena Heights University
Graduate: Bowling Green State University
Doctorate: Wayne State University

Fun Fact

In 2019, Hillary helped create and initially facilitated an LGBTQ+ writing group in metro Detroit.

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