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Secondary Editing

Medical school secondary applications can be daunting. With numerous prompts, ambiguous questions, and tight deadlines, it’s easy to become stressed and overwhelmed with this part of the medical school application process. However, secondaries can make or break an application. So, it is important that each secondary application showcases your authentic stories, communicates your interest in what a school has to offer, and demonstrates your knowledge of each particular medical school.

Our Physician Advisors will help you brainstorm content, helping you understand what admissions committees are looking for at that stage of the medical school application process. Our Writing Advisors will then help you develop your ideas into tailored content, paying special attention how your experiences, goals, and values align with the mission and values of each medical school. After some careful editing and proofreading from your Writing Advisor and a final review by your Physician Advisor, you will have a compelling and authentic secondary application responses that will not only show how each medical school is a good fit for you, but also how you will contribute to the community on campus.

Master Your Medical School Secondary Applications

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PHYSICIAN ADVISORS + 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.
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Incredible Success Rates

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

Invest in Your Medical School Future and Boost Your Odds of Getting Accepted!

Choose your advisor:

5 Schools
$2,100

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (1 session)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 5 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (5,000)
10 Schools
$3,400

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (2 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 10 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (10,000)
15 Schools
$4,300

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (3 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 15 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (15,000)
20 Schools
$5,300

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (4 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 20 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (unlimited)
5 Schools
$2,900

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (1 session)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 5 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (5,000)
10 Schools
$4,600

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (2 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 10 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (10,000)
15 Schools
$5,700

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (3 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 15 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (15,000)
20 Schools
$7,100

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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (4 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 20 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (unlimited)
5 Schools
Limited Availability
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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (1 session)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 5 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (5,000)
10 Schools
Limited Availability
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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (2 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 10 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (10,000)
15 Schools
Limited Availability
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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (3 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 15 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (15,000)
20 Schools
Limited Availability
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Personalized Attention with a Physician Advisor
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Brainstorming Content (4 sessions)
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Content and Grammar Editing for 20 Schools (3 revisions per essay)
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Maximum Word Count (unlimited)

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How Our Secondary Editing Process Works

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Step 1

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.

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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.

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Develop and 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.

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Edit and Finalize

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

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Step 5

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.

Meet a physician advisor

Dr. Renee Marinelli, MedSchoolCoach Director of Advising

Dr. Marinelli was an admissions committee member at UC Irvine

MedSchoolCoach has the experience:

12+ years

12k students helped

500k advising hours

Meet a few advisors

Physicians with admissions committee experience

Harvey Katzen MD, MedSchoolCoach
Harvey Katzen MD Associate Director of Advising

Dr. Katzen was an admissions committee member at George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as the president of Oncology-Hematology Associates in Maryland.

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Steven Ruby MD. MedSchoolCoach Advisor
Steven Ruby MD Associate Director of Advising

Dr. Ruby is a distinguished vascular surgeon who has completed his general surgery residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and a fellowship in Vascular Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and has held numerous leadership positions in various surgical societies. He is a founding member of Vascular Associates of Connecticut.    

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James Kelly MD, MedschoolCoach Advisor
James Kelly MD Associate Director of Advising

Dr. Kelly attended Georgetown University for both undergraduate and medical school. He completed his Ophthalmology residency at North Shore/Long Island Jewish and is now in private practice, as well as helping Ophthalmologists prepare for their oral boards. He enjoys traveling, live music, and sports.    

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Renee Marinelli MD, MedSchoolCoach
Renee Marinelli MD Director of Advising

Dr. Marinelli has practiced family medicine, served on the University of California Admissions Committee, and has helped hundreds of students get into medical school. She spearheads a team of physician advisors who guide MedSchoolCoach students.

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Ron Bradshaw MD
Ron Bradshaw MD

Dr. Bradshaw served on the admissions committee at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas for five years and has mentored many premedical students as a physician at Baylor University during the past 20 years.

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Rabeea Khan MD MPH, MedschoolCoach Advisor
Rabeea Khan MD MPH

Rabeea Khan, MD MPH is an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health where she is involved with both graduate and medical education.

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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.

Personal Statement Editing can take anywhere from one day to a few weeks to edit your personal statement.

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Need other help?

We prefer to work with student comprehensively, however we also offer a la carte services.

Strategic Planning

We provide advising and early planning to get you on the right track towards your medical school goals.

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Essay Editing

Our Writing Advisors will help you draft and edit your personal statement.

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Interview Preparation

Our Physician Advisors will prepare you for traditional and MMI interviews.

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