So I've been helping people get into medical school now for about 13 years. The cases that I find the most interesting are the ones who have had a few failed attempts and then they come to us for help with their application and then after all those failed attempts we get them in the first time with us. We've gathered a lot of data over those years so what I'm going to talk about today is the seven common mistakes that people make when applying to medical school and how you can avoid them to be successful with your application. In no particular order the first mistake that I see people make is choosing the wrong medical schools.

Your application has a wide variety of strengths and weaknesses, things that you've done well in, things that you're experienced at and just really areas that you shine in. Now what people often do is either don't research enough or just don't really understand what their strengths are, what their weaknesses are and which universities those are suited to. If you want a really good guide that's going to help you with that and there's a video that I do here which I talk about how to choose your medical school and on the website there's also a free pdf guide that's going to help you. So that will get you some of the way but as I say people really underestimate this.

A lot of people spend so much time on personal statement, gaining the right work experience, all the other elements of the medical application that make it really strong and then they miss the key step which is choosing something that is suited to them. With my students I spend hours on this. We sit down for a long time and really dissect everything about their application because it will be one of the biggest factors as to whether you are successful or not or unsuccessful with your application. If you want to find out what those important factors are check out this video here where I go through really what I would identify as the five key steps to building a really strong application.

Another mistake I see people make is not looking at the application as a whole. There are certain elements that you need to build a really strong application. I always say to students you need a good year of preparation before you submit your application to make sure that you're building a strong foundation because the way that I think about teaching my students is that I from day one I'm getting them interview ready. What we're seeing a lot now is people who are applying and think it's just about the UCAT, get a good UCAT score, get in front of the interview panel and then that's it. That's all I need to worry about.

But what might happen in that circumstance is that they will get four interviews and not a single offer and that is something that I'm seeing more increasingly commonly lately is people coming to me for that second attempt after having a first attempt exactly like that where they thought all I need to do is get that high score but then they'll get in front of the interview panel and they haven't completed the steps before or built a solid foundation and then don't get past it and that's really like very frustrating and a waste of time for a lot of people. What I say to my students is that part one is to get you in front of the interview panel but then part two is to get you past your interview and get you an offer.

That part two is something that you have built up over your months and years of building experience. It's not something that you just cram for two weeks before your interview and hope that you get through the interview panel. It's the difference between being the real deal and just being the best applicant that you can be to be really strong and get through that entire process. Another common mistake I see people make is not getting enough help. We're in a situation today where the med school application is the most competitive it's ever been and the reality is that everybody is getting help.

It's just to what degrees and to what level of quality they are achieving so. And schools, although they're trying their best, they don't quite deliver the level of depth that's needed. Any of my students on my program that have schools that are helping them with the medical application, you know, it's incomparable the difference between the two. You really need somebody who knows what they're talking about, knows the application inside out and then will give you exactly what you need to just know what to focus on, what not to worry about too much and just really be focused and time efficient so that you can dedicate the right kind of effort in the right kind of places to build the strongest application possible.

Any year, any given number of people applying, 20% of those people will be reapplying, i.e. submitting an application for the second, third, even more times than that. The next mistake I see very often touches on one that we talked about before but it's underestimating interviews. Interviews are the final hurdle to get you over the line and you really need to make sure that you've done the right amount of prep for it. This is the bit where we are the most militant about training our students and we do lots of in-person marks, online marks, just make sure that people are super well drilled to make sure they perform well.

The thing that people underestimate or get caught out on is that they have really not put themselves and simulated the pressure of what an interview is like and they think that just because they've practiced answers a few times that that is enough but really when you are in the real scenario it is very different and it feels different and there's a lot of pressure that you just have to get used to dealing with. So if you do the right amount of preparation, have the right sort of baseline knowledge, you're not just trying to regurgitate answers and kind of be rehearsed, you are the real deal that is going to be in the right place.

but really when you are in the real scenario it is very different and it feels different and there's a lot of pressure that you just have to get used to dealing with. So if you do the right amount of preparation, have the right sort of baseline knowledge, you're not just trying to regurgitate answers and kind of be rehearsed, you are the real deal that is going to be in the right place. Have the knowledge, have the experience and have everything about you prepared so that you come across as the real deal and the kind of person that deserves to and is going to go on to be a great doctor.

Another mistake I see people make is careless errors. So it could be things like writing your personal statement and not checking the grammar properly or making careless spelling mistakes and those are the kind of things that people will see and possibly just chuck your application straight in the bin for making them. The trick for that is to get people to check it and have people in your corner that are going to look at it, make sure that it's all okay and sometimes you don't pick up on little typos because you know what you've written so you don't see them sometimes. So just having a second pair of eyes to help you with that sort of thing.

Also not being careless about timings. I've had students come to me for help because they have got the UCAS deadline wrong or they've not put their UCAT in time. So these are stupid things that if you just make sure you're a little bit on the ball and are keeping up to date with what's going on you can avoid these careless mistakes. If you want to stay on the ball I would recommend that you sign up to my newsletter which is on my website which I'll link to in the description below or actually if you just subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications. Every important step of the medical application I'm putting out now twice weekly videos so that you can just stay up to date and know what's coming at the time it's coming so that you don't miss anything about the important dates in the medical application.

The next common mistake I see people make is not acquiring enough experience. This will come to the fore when you write your personal statement, when you sit the SJT at the UCAT but particularly when you come to interview. Having really good experience is probably the best thing that got me through interviews when it came to medical school when I was applying because what I did was I had a job working in hospital in the year running up to my medical school application so by the time I got to interview I was probably about 18 months into being on the wards all the time regularly seeing patients and the thing with that is that it gives you the experience for those questions that you can't practice for.

Inevitably when you come to your med school interviews you'll be asked something that is kind of a curveball that you just even if you'd have been preparing and revising for two years for the interview you still wouldn't have thought to come up with an answer for that question you would have never imagined it because it's inevitably going to happen. Now the way that you respond to that will fall back on your experience. When I got those questions I got backed into a corner I just remembered some real life things that happened recently and they were just at my fingertips because I like I say was the real deal had that experience rather than when you see people who are blagging it they will take their one or two experiences that they have and will try and crowbar them into every type of scenario question whatever it is that's they will just use that and dine out on that one experience for all of their application.

If you want to find out how to get really great work experience check out this video here that's going to kind of help you lay the foundation for everything and the final mistake I see people make is not preparing adequately for the aptitude tests particularly the UCAT because it is a very tricky exam and it's something that is unusual for people because it's probably the first time they have sat a skills-based exam rather than a knowledge-based exam. The UCAT is a set of brain teasers, problems to solve, written entries that you have to pick answers out of and it's a skill that you have to do on demand.

It's really important to distinguish that from your maybe your A-levels, GCSEs, maybe even your degree where it's all knowledge-based. Preparing for that in the right way and getting the right kind of score is really really important. Now I recommend that you check out this video here to give you the best plan for the UCAT but we have videos for the exact same for how to prepare for the BMAT and the GAMSAT as well and it's just really important that you have a really robust plan and then once you've got that aptitude test score it's really important what you do with it. Again this comes back to university selection and making sure that you are choosing the right ones and that UCAT score is a piece of the puzzle that is going to help you select which one you are going to go for.

A lot of people think that if they have a low UCAT score that it's game over but there are actually still options and we have had many students come to us who've come for help because they've got a low UCAT score and still managed to get them into a medical school that they were happy with because it's again part of the larger process so you really have to think about that but if you've got a low UCAT score and you're not sure what to do check out this video here where it tells you exactly what to do in the circumstance that you didn't get the UCAT score that you were hoping for.

So I hope you can see now what common mistakes you can avoid to make sure that your med school application is successful. Here are the areas that you really should focus on and check out this video where we talk about really what are the five important things that you need to nail to make sure that you do submit a really fantastic med school application. So thank you for watching and I will see you over in that video.

So I'm just getting into clinic and just before I start, I want to talk because we hit a really big landmark with Future Doc, with the number of students that we've now got into medical school. I thought it's a good time to kind of talk about some of the mistakes that people make. I'll say just setting up because I see it so many times and people don't seem to hear the lessons. I kind of want to just echo again to help people really understand what it is that people do wrong. And now really is the time to help people learn because this is coming out at the time of year where people really should start taking their preparation seriously.

And if you listen to them and the number of times around like they just watch this video at the right time, they would have got in. It would really help make a big difference to people's success level. So the first one that I say to people is that it's really important when you start. I can't explain enough how many people come to us and like we always can we can help. But it's like going to a tutor a week before the exam or two weeks before the exam versus a year before the exam.

Starting at the right time just makes the whole thing so much easier. It makes your preparation smoother. It makes the stress levels lower. It just helps you approach things methodically and in the right way. In doing so, it just makes the whole thing more successful because first of all, it's not just about getting in.

It's almost like I see it as levels. The first thing is to try and get in. Beyond that, we want to get into the really competitive medical school. So it's like building. And the sooner you start, the bigger and the better you can build your application.

And again, like I said, the first step is just to be able to get in and step after that is to be able to get into the really competitive medical schools. And I just find it really difficult for the kind of medical students or the kind of students who are really good and will make great doctors and deserve to be at a good place. But they've just left it so late that they're scrambling, they're stressed out, they make it really difficult for themselves. And yeah, I just kind of wish people would listen to that warning because you'll read the odd thing on Reddit that goes, oh, all you need to do is this and all you need to do is that.

But those are the very few people that kind of fluked it. And I really don't think that's a recipe for success. I mean, medicine is one of the most competitive courses to get into. I think it's a bit foolish to think that it's something that you can just blag your way into with a few weeks prep. So give it the respect that it deserves and start preparing.

You know, you submit your application in September. Really, you should be preparing a year before that, if not at least start in the January of that year. Second one is not understanding what medical school actually is, because I think a lot of people love the idea. They'll sit on, you know, they'll go on TikTok or they'll watch some TV shows and they'll go, well, yeah, that sounds really cool. I really want to do that.

But they haven't really taken the time to understand what the reality is. And it's not, I mean, it's a cliche to say it's not all glitz and glam, but it really isn't as glamorous as people think. And some of it is really cool. Like, you know, I've been into A&E and done some incredible procedures or done some or, you know, helped with some incredible operations that you come out and think that is just one of the coolest things I've seen. But at the same time, there's the mundane stuff and then there's the day to day stuff and there's the less glamorous side of things.

And people really need to really understand that, because if you're going in thinking that it's all just really like, you know, rainbows and sunshine all the time and then you get hit with the reality of it, it's a grind as it is. And if you are kind of going in and getting put off by that stuff, it's not going to have much longevity for your career. So really important to understand, get as much experience. I always say work experience forms the foundation of a strong application. So that's why it's so important, because we need to really understand the profession, what it's like, what the reality of what going in there is going to be like.

So go and do that because that's really important. Third mistake is usually generic personal statements. One of the most important things. And personal statements differ in how much the universities use them. But it kind of almost formulates all of that experience that I talked about before and puts it into a way where you've understood what you've seen, what experience you've gained.

It's almost like an exercise in helping you understand why you'd make a good doctor. So generic personal statements are, you know, chat GPT'd or just kind of don't really understand what it is they're trying to get out of it. Some of the feedback I'll get from people sometimes, it's like it's rare that we get complaints. But when we do, people will say about the personal statement, oh, they just they just gave me some. They made me sound like a robot.

And they don't get what the personal statement is trying to convey. And what you need to do is explain, is convince someone why you would make a good doctor. And they don't want Hollywood like, oh, for my life, I've dreamed about this and all this impassioned stuff. It's nice, but that's not what sells you in a personal statement. What sells you in a personal statement is that you know why you want to do it.

You've understood what it is and what you're getting yourself into. And then you've demonstrated that you've got the experience and the skills to get there. And usually the format goes For my life, I've dreamed about this and all this impassioned stuff. It's nice, but that's not what sells you in a personal statement. What sells you in a personal statement is that you know why you want to do it.

You've understood what it is and what you're getting yourself into. And then you've demonstrated that you've got the experience and the skills to get there. And usually the format goes, you saw what you learned and how it reflects back to you being a good doctor or the lessons that you're going to take that are going to contribute to you being a good doctor. That's the formula that people need to follow. And like I said, the people who get upset when we say your personal statement is not good is because they've gone on this like wild philosophical talk about the world and how they want to save it.

And for someone who's read thousands and you know, when I was selecting people for the medical school, you know, you see a thousand of these and you kind of just roll your eyes when you see these ethereal save the world kind of ones. So it's really important to understand. You just need to communicate why you are good and what you've done to gain those skills to be good. And that is the thing that people get wrong. And again, don't underestimate the personal statement because it's something that even if the universities you apply to don't use it, is something that will help consolidate in your own head.

And when you go to interview and reread it before you go to interview, because they will use it as to why you are doing this and why you'd make a good candidate. Okay, so next thing I've written here is not preparing for interviews properly. One of the most common mistakes I see is people thinking that the application is just about the stuff before September and the stuff after that is a formality. Interviews just as hard as any other part and equally the most important bit because that's when the competition gets really fierce. So more so it's when it gets real.

And I think people underestimate how much they need to know and how little notice you get for the interview coming up. You might get as little as a couple of weeks and it really isn't enough to get the knowledge in and get the practice in that you need with the feedback and helping you understand how you're coming across. People don't give it enough time. And the saddest thing I see a lot is that people, so we get a lot of people on the Future Doc program who come to us because they tried by themselves, they didn't get in and then they come to us for their second or sometimes they've not got in for like three or four times and they come to us for that fifth attempt or whatever it is.

We pretty much every single time get them in because we realize what, you know, we can see what they're doing wrong. But often the one that I see very commonly is the people who get, you know, smash the UCAT, they get four interviews and they don't get a single offer. And it's because they haven't taken it seriously. They haven't realized the amount of prep that needs to go into it, the knowledge that they need to have and just how to put themselves across. The interview training that we do at Future Doc, I think it's so valuable just for life, not just for getting through the med school interviews, because being able to communicate well, being able to speak well, being able to answer questions and structure your thoughts and present it in a coherent way.

Those things are invaluable life skills that will help not just in medical school interviews, they'll help in your career as a doctor to be able to present a case well or whatever it is you're trying to explain. But also they're just great life skills. I always talk about the world, they talk about force multipliers, things that no matter what industry you're in, if you're good at these things, you'll excel. And one of them is speaking, and that's essentially what the interview is. The other one is learning, your ability to learn really quickly.

Coding used to be one, I'd say less so now. Arithmetic, just being able to do numbers quickly so that you can navigate the world without having to use a calculator. So these are the kind of things that can retrain someone to be a really good speaker for interview. It just is a really valuable thing. And you should take that opportunity of this interview to learn that life skill because it will put you in really good stead.

Okay, then finally, what do we have? Yeah, cramming for the UCAT. So I would say people confuse online that you only need a few weeks for the UCAT with the UCAT prep is in phases. And the last phase, we don't want to be too long because the last phase is the intense phase. The UCAT exam, if you've not kind of come across it yet, it's almost like an IQ test on steroids.

You have to do lots of mental acumen tasks, whether it's reading, maths, logic, whether it's ethics, you have to do them at speed. So what we need, it's like almost like we need to learn how to do it slowly. And then we need to speed it up. And the thing that people think is you need to do all of that in a short period of time, because otherwise you'll burn out. But what does get people to burn out is if you do too much of the high intensity because it's a very, it's a mental assault.

It's an assault on the brain because of the speed that you're doing it. And when people do that last phase, which is like really cranking the intensity, you're practicing these tests, they're fast paced, all the time, go, go, go. Yes, people do burn out because it's just too much mental processing to go through for a sustained period. But the slow bit, we can practice for a decent amount of time. We can get good at understanding what we need to do, understanding the techniques, and then we crank up the intensity.

So having to cram for the UCAT is a recipe for driving people insane and something that I would recommend people avoid as much as possible. And again, it just comes down to that early preparation and giving yourself as much time to do it really. But it really comes down to people kind of taking for granted how difficult the process is and also kind of overestimating or being unrealistic about how good they are. This is a profession that takes the really high level people. And it is something that you can learn how to get yourself there.

But a lot of people just assume naturally that they have what it takes when they don't understand quite how high the bar is to get into these sorts of things. So I guess my final mistake that people make is that they try and go it alone. What they don't realize is that everybody has some sort of help, whether it's from people who have been in the profession. I mean, these days it's changed so much that even consultants have, they've never sat in the UCAT exam and the exam, the interviews have changed so much. But everybody is getting help in some form.

And I think it's genuinely the quality of help that makes the difference these days. But I also see with schools, like schools say, oh yeah, we help the medical school and the students will be like, oh, I'm covered. And I've been into some schools to offer my own help and see how they do things. And I realized that they aren't as clued up as you might think. And when we kind of start talking about our spiel and explaining how we help, they kind of are like looking at us like, you know, we're playing 3D chess to them.

And I kind of think what we're doing is just, to us it's bread and butter, but we realize then that what you know when this is what you do, this is your sole focus compared to people who kind of just do it because they feel they have to do it to provide a service. You know, it's night and day. I think it's like the difference between some government services and some private services that do it for like a business. And that's because it's what they do versus it's kind of something that they have to provide. I think that's a really big thing to bear in mind.

But I'd say, yeah, the mistake number five is not getting help and whether that's help, you know, obviously not everybody can afford the help, especially not the stuff that we do at FutureDoc and a lot of people don't get into the program anyway because they're not suitable. Getting the right sort of help, whether it's free stuff on YouTube or whatever it is, you need help kind of separate yourself. And the standard is so high now that everybody has access to a lot of resources. So anything that you can do to give you that extra edge is the difference. But especially this year, we've got the highest number of UCAT takers ever, overthought 41,000, which quick maths in my head, I think that's over 5% higher than any other highest year we've had before.

So it's so important now more than ever to have those marginal gains to distinguish yourself between other people. So if you'd like our help with the FutureDoc program, we're getting better every single year and we've got an incredibly good success rate and we really want people to get in. We've got a guarantee if you don't get in as well, that's how much we're devoted to and want to get people in. So if you want to find out about the program, you can check out this video here and we'd love to have you apply and see if you qualify. But otherwise, just take these lessons on board.

Don't leave it too late. Don't underestimate things. That's probably how I would summarize this whole video. Take it seriously and give it the respect that it deserves because it is a tricky profession to get into that is getting more and more competitive. Thanks for watching.

I'll see you in the next video and I'm about to start clinic.

There are signals that admissions tutors and I notice every single year with certain students. It's not their grades, it's not their UCAT score, it's not really something that you can fix last minute. But these signals say to us, ah, this person started too late with their prep. And often the problem is that students don't even realize these signals that they're doing at the time. So in this video, I'm going to show you what to look out for, how to avoid being in that camp altogether, and what you can do to really strengthen your medical and dental school application.

So the signal isn't one particular thing, it's actually a cluster of things. And it's something that you couldn't really pick up by googling or using ChatGPT. And it's really not one red flag that signifies late starter. It is, as I say, this cluster of symptoms that we see amongst these people who have left it too late. Signal number one is that reflections sound recent and not matured.

One of the best ways that you can tell a strong applicant is the quality of their reflection. However, late starters often describe experiences clearly, explain what happened well, but struggle to show any depth. Their reflections sound new. You'll hear phrases like, this showed me for the first time, or I realized during this placement. There's nothing wrong with that, except for when you speak to somebody who's been experienced at whatever it is for a long time, you'll hear them say, I often say things like, or for a long time I realized, blah, blah, blah.

They don't say those words explicitly, but it's implied in the way that they say it. Early starters, on the other hand, tend to show layered insight, repeated themes that come back stronger, ideas that have clearly matured over time. So really, reflection that has time to form and settle reads very differently to reflection that is still kind of forming. The second subtle signal often comes in personal statements. What tends to happen is they become quite overloaded.

Late starters often try to cram and include everything. They just want to prove just how much they've done. They demonstrate commitment through volume. The result is that the statement becomes focused, not busy, and it reads a little bit like a laundry list of all the things that you've done, rather than what we said in point one, which is really important, is good quality reflection. Early starters and better candidates don't need to give you everything.

They can be selective and just pick the best experiences to show you, and actually even hold a little bit back so that when they get asked to interview, or they leave the reader wanting a little bit more in the personal statement to get invited to interview, then they have loads more in their arsenal to go with. But this is part of the main problem why students struggle. It's because they silo all of these individual parts of the application as different things and think that they're separate, where they don't realize they're interconnected. Most applicants treat the medical school application as a series of separate hurdles. UCAT, personal statement, work experience, uni selection, interviews, and try to solve each one independently.

The result is a fragmented approach where the pieces never add up to more than the sum of their parts. And students and families are left feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, and unsure whether they're even on the right track. That's why FutureDoc is different because a dedicated coach knows your entire application and knows how every little bit interrelates as one interconnected part. So whenever they make a change, they look at the big picture as a whole. That's why we have the 93% success that we do, and that's why we dedicate ourselves to giving you a free go again if you don't get in the first time with us.

Signal number three is when students have a defensive strategy around the UCAT. This is quite a big one, and you'll see people who haven't kind of treated the application as a whole and kind of just focused on the UCAT or not focused on the other stuff, so they have loads of stuff to do around UCAT time, really not getting the score they want. And it's more in the score itself, but the things that you'll hear them say around it, and they'll be very defensive and give you lots of reasons why they couldn't prepare in the way they wanted. This is why starting early and having a methodical approach is so important because people don't understand just how much there is to do and how they're all interrelated until they're kind of in the depths of things, which is why it's so important to look at the big picture.

People will say things like, I didn't realize how important it was, I underestimated the exam, I ran out of time to prepare properly. But early starters who tend to have done well because they've understood it properly and what they need to do, understand how the score fits with their wider application, they acknowledge the limits without excuses so that they can deal with them directly, and they demonstrate learning and adjustment. It's not just about starting early, it's about how that extra time allows you to prepare in a way that's more conducive to a good score. Signal number four is usually university choices that don't look quite right, and the reason for that is because they've been rushed because, again, this is all a domino effect, it knocks on, and if you haven't done all the previous planning and prep, you then end up in a situation that you hadn't planned and have to choose universities at the last minute.

Late starters will often choose universities based on reputation, where they might not even necessarily meet the eligibility criteria, on hearsay, or on some last-minute advice they've seen on Reddit or a blog. Again, a very unreliable source. Whereas early starters don't only choose universities based on fit, if they have prepared well enough, they can actually aim for a certain university in mind and start building their application towards their preferences. They look very intelligently at how those universities score applicants Hear say, or on some last-minute advice they've seen on Reddit or a blog. Again, a very unreliable source.

Whereas early starters don't only choose universities based on fit, if they have prepared well enough, they can actually aim for a certain university in mind and start building their application towards their preferences. They look very intelligently at how those universities score applicants, what they prioritize, how the applicant's profile aligns to that university. So misalignment doesn't necessarily tell you that it's someone who started too late, but it does signal kind of a reactive strategy or maybe someone who's a bit confused. And the final signal comes at interview, and it's usually answers that sound rehearsed rather than grounded. By interview stage, this is when people come unstuck, and this is really the telling time of the application, which is really gutting for a lot of people, because those people who think they can leave it too late and kind of just be like, oh, I'll leave it all to the last minute, that's when they get found out, and it's really gutting for them to fall at the very last hurdle.

But they kind of look like this. Late starters often memorize structures, prepare answers intensely, but struggle to adapt them. So it's kind of like a crowbar, the pre-prepared sentences into situations that might not always fit. Their answers will sound polished, but a bit brittle, whereas early starters, remember, you'll have heard me say to people, interview preparation starts from the moment you start your prep. So, you know, even when you're thinking about work experience, that is building the kind of person that is going to go on and make a really good candidate, a really good med school or dental school student, and, you know, onto a good doctor.

But it starts back then. So the early starters, you'll see different things. They tend to think aloud more naturally. They'll adapt the framework to the question fluidly. They'll draw on experience without forcing it because they'll have built up a really good repertoire.

But, you know, when I sit on interview panels and other people who do it as well, I know that you can feel that difference as soon as that person walks in the room. This is the thing that I'm trying to convince people from the start is to become the real deal. Don't try and fake it. And that the only way by doing that is there are no shortcuts to it. You have to put in the hours.

And the easiest way to do that is to start slow and steady early on. But to summarize, here is why these signals matter more than people think. The key insight is that medicine isn't just testing knowledge or motivation. It's testing how you prepare for complex long-term responsibility. Starting late doesn't mean you can't cope.

But the signals of starting late often correlate with risk decisions, limited adaptability, and high stress under pressure. These things matter in medicine. And if you're sat there with less than a year before you submit your application to UCAS in September and these things sound uncomfortably familiar, just bear in mind, it doesn't mean that you've failed yet. But this is your signal to be, it's time to take it seriously because really every moment that you delay is time that you could be spending on it and making the ride much smoother and easier. But here's what strong applicants can do and here's how you can correct the signal now if you're early enough.

They do three things differently. First, they build purposely, steadily, and reflect along the way. They separate learning from their performance. And finally, they make decisions earlier than feels necessary. Selectors won't reject people for starting late.

It's just that the difference is that one looks very rushed and one looks very accomplished. And you can really tell the difference. So I would encourage you to do that. And look, if you'd like our help with that coach that's going to look at the whole picture, show you how everything is interconnected, and really help you build the strongest application possible, you can check out the Future Dot program here where we have our brand new predictable offer protocol that helps you do all of that, look at it the whole start on time, and build your strongest application to get into your chosen medical or dental school.

Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.