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Tailored Secondary Essay Support From Physicians and Writers

Write essays that showcase your authentic stories, communicate your interest in what a school has to offer, and demonstrates your knowledge of each particular medical school.

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Physicians & Writing Experts

Personal Attention & Advice

Incredible Success Rates

At MedSchoolCoach, you not only work with Physician Advisors who are actual physicians, but also a team of expert Writing Advisors to help you craft the perfect words.

Your advisors will get to know you inside and out. This helps in developing the most cohesive application possible, one that accentuates your strengths and gives you the best chance at an acceptance.

Students who use MedSchoolCoach to develop their written materials are 2x more likely to get an acceptance.

Physicians & Writing Experts

At MedSchoolCoach, you not only work with Physician Advisors who are actual physicians, but also a team of expert Writing Advisors to help you craft the perfect words.

Dual-Expertise Insight

Combine high-level strategy from actual admissions committee physicians with polished narrative development from professional writing advisors to ensure every essay makes a strong impression.

Avoid Common Pitfalls

Secondary prompts can be repetitive, vague, or tricky. Our team helps you avoid generic answers, cliché themes, and red flags that could otherwise derail an application.

Highlight What Committees Value

Admissions teams look beyond stats at this stage. We help you highlight core competencies—such as empathy, resilience, and maturity—so your passion for medicine shines through authentic stories.
Personal Attention & Advice

Your advisors will get to know you inside and out. This helps in developing the most cohesive application possible, one that accentuates your strengths and gives you the best chance at an acceptance.

Tailored School Alignment

Move beyond generic copy-pasting. We help you customize every response so your experiences, values, and career goals explicitly align with each individual medical school’s mission.

Strategic Brainstorming

Through an in-depth intake process and 1-on-1 collaboration, we help you identify your strongest personal experiences and choose the right stories for complex or ambiguous prompts.

Differentiate Yourself

Many applicants have strong metrics on paper. We work with you to weave your unique journey into compelling, memorable essays that set you apart in a crowded applicant pool.
Incredible Success Rates

Students who use MedSchoolCoach to develop their written materials are 2x more likely to get an acceptance.

Fast, Efficient Turnaround

Timing is critical during secondary season. Our streamlined editing workflow ensures you receive prompt, high-quality feedback so you can submit your applications early without sacrificing quality.

Comprehensive Multi-Stage Editing

From structural feedback and narrative shaping down to line-by-line proofreading, your essays undergo rigorous editing from both a Writing Advisor and a Physician Advisor.

Turn Applications into Interviews

Secondaries can make or break your application. Well-crafted, authentic responses catch the attention of admissions committees and turn daunting prompts into interview invitations.

How It Works

Discovery

Our advisors use our comprehensive intake form and spend time getting to know you on a personal level to find out what makes you unique.

Develop & Tailor

Once you have started writing, your Writing Advisor will help you tailor your responses to specific questions and develop content that showcases your future plans and goals for medical school.

Brainstorm

Focusing on your individual qualities, your Physician Advisor will guide you on what admissions committees are looking for and which stories you have that are strongest. Meanwhile, your Writing Advisor will work with you to determine how to write about those stories.

Medical School Acceptance

With the help of your team of advisors, you will craft an application that will get you interviews and lead to an acceptance to medical school.

Edit & Finalize

After a few drafts, your Writing Advisor will refine your prose and correct smaller writing errors that stand in the way of excellence.

Discovery

Our advisors use our comprehensive intake form and spend time getting to know you on a personal level to find out what makes you unique.

Brainstorm

Develop & Tailor

Once you have started writing, your Writing Advisor will help you tailor your responses to specific questions and develop content that showcases your future plans and goals for medical school.

Edit & Finalize

After a few drafts, your Writing Advisor will refine your prose and correct smaller writing errors that stand in the way of excellence.

Medical School Acceptance

With the help of your team of advisors, you will craft an application that will get you interviews and lead to an acceptance to medical school.

Step 1: Choose Advisor Level

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Standard

Master

Director

Who They Are

Our Standard Advisors are all physicians who are former admissions committee members and interviewers. They have extensive mentoring background working with pre-med students.

Our Master Advisors provide everything you could expect from a Standard Advisor, but they have a longer track record, and specialize in helping students targeting top tier schools, as well as students who are borderline candidates.

Our Directors are available on a limited basis for private advising. They have helped thousands of students get into medical school.

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Who They Are

Our Standard Advisors are all physicians who are former admissions committee members and interviewers. They have extensive mentoring background working with pre-med students.

Our Directors are available on a limited basis for private advising. They have helped thousands of students get into medical school.

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Who They Are

Our Standard Advisors are all physicians who are former admissions committee members and interviewers. They have extensive mentoring background working with pre-med students.

Our Directors are available on a limited basis for private advising. They have helped thousands of students get into medical school.

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Step 2: Choose Plan

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MedSchoolCoach was amazing. Everyone at the company is very helpful and wants to see their clients succeed. My personal advisor was very responsive and helped me in every stage of the process. I truly feel that if I had not used MedSchoolCoach, I would not have gotten into my top choice for medical school. I sent out 12 secondaries, interviewed at 5 schools, and was accepted to 4 and waitlisted at the other.

Madi: "Interviewed at 5 schools, and was accepted to 4."
I had an amazing experience with MedSchoolCoach. Coming off a failed application cycle, I felt very lost and confused about how to navigate another one. Then, I met Dr. Nelson, and my outlook completely changed. He has single-handedly been one of the best mentors I have ever met. Always going above and beyond, inspiring me along the way, and genuinely wanting to see me achieve my dream. I know for a fact that my journey into medical school wouldn't be the same without him. I can't recommend him enough!

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“Dr. Kachiu Lee and Rob Rivas helped me tremendously throughout the college admissions process. From brainstorming my personal statement to refining my supplementals, both Dr. Lee and Rob consistently provided thorough feedback in a short amount of time, ensuring my responses articulated my ideas in the best manner possible. Additionally, Dr. Lee was invaluable in prepping for my BS/MD interviews, giving great feedback on how to optimize my responses while also providing practice through several mock interviews. Overall, I would highly recommend both Dr. Kachiu Lee and Rob Rivas as advisors, especially if you are applying to college and are interested in BS/MD programs.”

David: "Invaluable in prepping for my BS/MD interviews."
"Dr. Mandalia provided a plethora of good ideas to work into my responses that will help me strengthen my overall narrative and presentation. He noted my strengths and weaknesses and gave me many different ways to address my weaknesses. He is clearly incredibly knowledgeable about what interview committees look for and was able to elaborate on these points in great detail."

Conor O'Dowd: "Incredibly knowledgable [sic] about what interview committees look for."
“The first time I took the MCAT without any preparation, I did not achieve the score I wanted to reach. When I found the resources available by the instructors in MedSchoolCoach, I was able to boost my score from a 500 to 527 in my most recent practice test in just 3 months! I am thrilled with this score, and beyond grateful for MedSchoolCoach <3”

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I used their services to help me pass the basic science comprehensive exam and now for step 1 prep. I will most definitely continue to use their services for step 2 prep as well.

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Christina Tartaglia: "I will most definitely continue to use their services."
I used MedSchool Coach to help me study for the USMLE Step 1 exam and was so thankful for their help! I highly recommend Abdul was a tutor! I was really nervous about the exam and really at a loss about how to the study before working with him. He provided a personalized approach and we systematically tackled all of my areas of weakness before the exam. After our sessions, I walked into test day feeling infinitely more confident than I would have been without his help!

Emma L: "walked into test day feeling infinitely more confident."

Frequently Asked Questions

You will have a Physician Advisor, who is an actual physician and has admissions committee experience, and a professional Writing Advisor. Combining the Physician Advisor’s understanding of the process with the writing expertise of the Writing Advisor means that your application is as strong as it can be.

Yes! All our editing packages come with brainstorming time with your Physician Advisor.

We use our advising portal, CHART, to organize your application materials. When you upload your work to the platform, your Writing Advisor will review it in detail and then provide constructive feedback on how to improve it. As you get closer to your final draft, we will focus on things like word choice, sentence structure, and grammar.

Advisors provide feedback within 24-96 hours of submission. This allows enough time for in-depth edits.

Check out our Complete Application Packages or Mock Interview Prep options for additional application support.

Adaobi Ugochukwu
Master USMLE Tutor

Adaobi Ugochukwu
Master USMLE Tutor

Undergraduate: University of Florida
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Alex Starks
Associate Director of MCAT

Alex Starks
Associate Director of MCAT

Undergraduate: Central Washington University

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Allison King MD
Master Advisor

Allison King MD
Master Advisor

Undergraduate: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Medical School: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Residency: Vanderbilt Pediatrics Residency Program
Fellowship: Vanderbilt Pediatric Emergency Medicine

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Camille Villar
Master Tutor

Camille Villar
Master Tutor

Undergraduate: Rice University

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine

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Charles Farmer MD
Advisor

Charles Farmer MD
Advisor

Undergraduate: BS, Seton Hall University

Medical School: MD, John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: New York University

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Jeanie Gribben MD
Director of Medical School Tutoring

Jeanie Gribben MD
Director of Medical School Tutoring

Undergraduate: Cornell University
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Residency::New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell

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Jill Miller MD
Associate Director of Admissions Advising

Jill Miller MD
Associate Director of Admissions Advising

Undergraduate: BS, Cornell University
Medical School: MD, University of Virginia
Residency: Cornell University, Duke University

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Kachiu Lee MD
Director of Direct Med (BS/MD) Advising

Kachiu Lee MD
Director of Direct Med (BS/MD) Advising

Undergraduate: BA, Northwestern University
Medical School: MD, Northwestern University
Internship: Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, University of Arizona
Residency: Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

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Laura Baldasare
College Advisor

Laura Baldasare
College Advisor

Undergraduate: Pace University

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Liran Raz MD
Master Advisor

Liran Raz MD
Master Advisor

Undergraduate: BS, Stony Brook University
Medical School: MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Residency: Mt. Sinai Health System - New York

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Luke Voytas MD
Director of Admissions Advising

Luke Voytas MD
Director of Admissions Advising

Undergraduate: BS, Duke University
Medical School: MD, Washington University in St. Louis
Residency: Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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Makaya Fofana
Tutor

Makaya Fofana
Tutor

Undergraduate: Brown University

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Rosalyn Ferguson MD, MSHA
Master Advisor

Rosalyn Ferguson MD, MSHA
Master Advisor

Undergraduate: BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Medical School: MD, New York University School of Medicine
Residency: Boston University
Fellowship: Texas Heart Institute

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Susan Choo MD
Associate Director of Advising

Susan Choo MD
Associate Director of Advising

Undergraduate: BS, University of California, Berkeley
Medical School: MD, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Residency: Children’s Hospital of Orange County

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