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Pre-Med Success

New Member Welcome🎉
✨Welcome to our growing Pre-Med Success Community!✨ We are thrilled to have you as a member of the Pre-Med Success Community Forum. As you prepare for your MCAT, you'll have a built-in support network to help you along the way. Our community is made up of fellow MCAT students, MCAT experts, and various medical…
📣Roll Call! Let us know where you're from and when you're testing!
Let’s find your study squad! Whether you're just starting content review or you're in the home stretch, drop a comment below with: 📍 Where are you from? (State/University) 🗓️ When is your MCAT test date? (Month/Year) Pro-tip: Scroll through the replies—if you see someone with your same test date or location, say hi and…
Maximizing Medical Shadowing: Transforming Observation into Professional Connection
Shadowing is frequently viewed as a box to check for medical school applications and a necessary set of hours to prove you understand the clinical environment. However, looking at these experiences transactionally overlooks the biggest benefit. In reality, your time in the clinic is your intro to the professional medical…
How to Make the Most of the Rest of the Year
We're past the halfway point of 2026, which means it's a good time to stop and ask: is your premed plan actually on track, or has it just been running on autopilot since the start of the year? The journey is a marathon with no clearly marked mile markers, so it's really easy to drift. Here’s a few tips for making the…

ICEBREAKER POST! - Welcome😊✨
Welcome once again to our MCAT Community! Let's get things started by sharing a little about ourselves. 🤗 In the comments, share a boring fact about yourself and when you're planning on taking the MCAT.
New Member Welcome🎉
✨Welcome to our growing Pre-Med Success Community!✨ We are thrilled to have you as a member of the Pre-Med Success Community Forum. As you prepare for your MCAT, you'll have a built-in support network to help you along the way. Our community is made up of fellow MCAT students, MCAT experts, and various medical…
How should I structure my mcat prep as I plan to take the exam around February?
To elaborate further about my question, I am hoping to finish the content review by the last day of August and want to take my first FL in September to give me a benchmark of the areas I am struggling with. Should I follow the schedule given by kaplan and do multiple practice problems along with anki?
How to Survive the Pre-Med Crunch: Balancing GPA vs. MCAT Prep
You are staring at a heavy course load of upper-level sciences while trying to study for the MCAT, and it feels like there are not enough hours in the day. Plenty of pre-meds hit this same wall when trying to keep their GPA high while preparing for the biggest exam of their college career. You can protect both your grades…
Kaplan MCAT Q bank vs U world
Hopefully I don't get in trouble talking about a competitor on here but i was on a MCAT reddit group and wanted to see what peoples thoughts were on Kaplan Q bank vs U world Q bank and they were overly negative about the Kaplan Q bank and now I feel like on top of the kaplan course I bought that i should buy the U world Q…
What is the one app, website, or physical planner that keeps you organized?
As we head back to school, what is the one app, website, or physical planner you absolutely cannot live without for staying organized? Let us know in the comments! (Bonus points if you share a picture; infinity bonus points if it keeps you from doom-scrolling when you should be studying CARS!)
📅 Check out our August Events!
The Early Advantage: 2027 Med School Strategy From Insiders August 12 | 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET | REGISTER HERE Free MCAT 515+ Sample Class August 16 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET | REGISTER HERE Healthcare Networking Meetup August 26 | 12:00-1:00 PM ET | REGISTER HERE Kaplan and the Kaplan Community also host events designed to…
Does Your Pre-Med Major Actually Matter to Medical Schools?
“What’s your major?” If you’ve spent more than five minutes at a pre-med mixer or browsing student forums, you’ve heard this question a million times. More often than not, the answers follow a predictable script: Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Molecular Neuro-something-or-other. Because of this, a massive myth has…
How to Make the Most of the Rest of the Year
We're past the halfway point of 2026, which means it's a good time to stop and ask: is your premed plan actually on track, or has it just been running on autopilot since the start of the year? The journey is a marathon with no clearly marked mile markers, so it's really easy to drift. Here’s a few tips for making the…
Advice Needed: Pre-Med Advice for Rising Seniors Prepping for the MCAT
Hi Pre-Meds and Pre-Med Faculty! We just wrapped up an awesome Healthcare Connect networking webinar! Two rising seniors prepping for the MCAT dropped some great questions, and I wanted to bring them to the community to get your collective wisdom and advice. Student 1: Their biggest hurdle right now is the science section.…