Don't Waste Your Pre-Med Advising: Questions to Ask Your Advisor

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No matter if you're a college freshman, a junior MCAT prepping, or making your short list of medical schools and hoping to get in, your advisor can be your biggest ally... IF you know how to work effectively with them! This video covers academic advisors and local physician mentors. Visit https://mentoringdocs.com/premed for a fillable workbook on setting up and holding successful, useful meetings with busy local physicians, then applying learnings immediately to your career. Your advisor relationship is pivotal to the longer term landscape of your career. Stay out of a generic pre-med track if it's not right for you. (The well-worn "standard" path actually hurt your chances.) No matter if you're making a first impression or course-correcting late in the game, sit down with a Doctor who will ask you some questions that you may not have considered. Your pre-med academic advising meeting, when done right, is more than humdrum routine and shifting around required courses (although that is certainly important, it's the baseline expectation). You may not see your advisor often, but he or she can be a huge help to your future career if you take the time to conceive of the right questions. This is your chance to stand out as someone who wants it and build a relationship with the people who may quite possibly write your committee letter. Many students try to wing it, go in unprepared, and leave with a generic 4-year plan that wasn't worth either person's time. In this video, a Doctor shares how to strategically prepare for your advisor meeting, so you can get the help you actually need. Hardball questions within: ask these questions to ensure you aren't just going through the motions. Start building a competitive medical school application now, before it's too late to turn around. No matter if you're making a first impression or course-correcting, this video will ask you some questions that you may not have considered. Your advisor relationship is pivotal to the longer term landscape of your career. Stay out of a generic pre-med track if it's not right for you. (The well-worn "standard" path actually hurt your chances.) 0:00 Now that I'm pre-med (or soon to be)... what do I do? 0:29 Who is this guy? 0:54 Enough internet noise, here's the inside scoop 1:19 Doctors are about action. Set up a meeting with your advisor NOW. 2:22 The 4 purposes of advisor meetings 4:00 The MCAT, everyone's big cat frenemy 5:00 Course Sequence & Detailed Checklist of Questions 5:58 Major Decisions with Major Consequences 6:32 Courses that help you in Life, not just the Test 7:36 Being a Better Advisee 8:06 What if your advisor isn't into advising? 8:59 Not aligned on approach? How it still worked out for me. 10:19 Underdog? Grit and determination needed. 10:44 Winning over my tough advisor led to a local mentor 12:35 The obvious question that stopped me in my tracks 13:07 Big pieces first, finishing touches later 13:53 Action Items If you're struggling to find a quality mentor physician, visit https://mentoringdocs.com/coaching