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Annual September 14, 1998
What makes The Best Medical Schools the leading medical school guide?

ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE A CRUCIAL DECISION

The medical school you choose determines how you'll spend the next four years of your life and greatly influences what you will do when you graduate. The updated 1999 Edition of The Best Medical Schools advises you of the facts about admission requirements and curriculum at  the 124  allopathic and 19 osteopathic schools; plus, it provides all the practical information you need to apply:


What is the school's MCAT score release policy?

How much clinical exposure can you expect during preclinical years?

What is the grading/promotion policy?

Are there special programs for members of minority groups?

How much financial aid is available?

Plus: campus and e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, admissions deadlines, tuition, and more

Post-baccalaureate programs and the nontraditional student


If you're an older, nontraditional applicant, you probably have plenty of questions about getting into med school. A special chapter inside offers advice on:


The financial and personal implications of being an older student

Which schools are particularly friendly toward non-traditional students

Where you can complete your post-bacc training, and how to survive the MCAT

Plus, follow eight nontraditional students through the entire process: from applying to accepting


THE ANNUAL MEDICAL STUDENT SURVEY

If you want to know what life is really like at the country's leading medical schools, then listen to the students who attend them. This book contains the results of The Princeton Review's annual medical school student survey. Current students told us what they think, and we've included their comments in the most comprehensive and definitive guide ever produced.

HELPFUL ADVICE FOR THE DREADED INTERVIEW

Almost everyone has heard horror stories about someone else's interview. We prepare you for the selection committee by telling you what you can expect to be asked: from the tried-and-true favorites to off-the-wall questions that might make you flinch.

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Time was, all you needed to do surgery was a red-and-white striped pole, a sharp knife, and some leeches. Things are a little different now, and if surgery--or psychiatry, family medicine, or OB/GYN--is your goal, you've got a lot of work to do. Fortunately, researchers at the Princeton Review (also known for their MCAT review courses) have already done your preliminary research for you, with their guide to The Best Medical Schools.

It gives you the dirt on 124 allopathic (M.D.) schools and 19 osteopathic (D.O.) schools, including such essential information as cost, average admission scores, student-body makeup, and academic priorities. Also quite helpful are separate chapters on choosing a school, financial aid, "nontraditional" (i.e., older) students, and the all-important interview. Finally, there is a fascinating report on the survey conducted by the Princeton Review staff of medical students from across the country, capped with a hysterically funny list of truly bizarre medical interview questions--and the answers given by successful candidates. Whether you're asked, "Why did you choose this school?" or "If you were a vegetable, what kind would you be?", The Best Medical Schools will help you to find the best answer. --Rob Lightner

From the Inside Flap

What makes The Best Medical Schools the leading medical school guide?

ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE A CRUCIAL DECISION

The medical school you choose determines how you'll spend the next four years of your life and greatly influences what you will do when you graduate. The updated 1999 Edition of The Best Medical Schools advises you of the facts about admission requirements and curriculum at the 124 allopathic and 19 osteopathic schools; plus, it provides all the practical information you need to apply:

What is the school's MCAT score release policy?

How much clinical exposure can you expect during preclinical years?

What is the grading/promotion policy?

Are there special programs for members of minority groups?

How much financial aid is available?

Plus: campus and e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, admissions deadlines, tuition, and more

Post-baccalaureate programs and the nontraditional student

If you're an older, nontraditional applicant, you probably have plenty of questions about getting into med school. A special chapter inside offers advice on:

The financial and personal implications of being an older student

Which schools are particularly friendly toward non-traditional students

Where you can complete your post-bacc training, and how to survive the MCAT

Plus, follow eight nontraditional students through the entire process: from applying to accepting

THE ANNUAL MEDICAL STUDENT SURVEY

If you want to know what life is really like at the country's leading medical schools, then listen to the students who attend them. This book contains the results of The Princeton Review's annual medical school student survey. Current students told us what they think, and we've included their comments in the most comprehensive and definitive guide ever produced.

HELPFUL ADVICE FOR THE DREADED INTERVIEW

Almost everyone has heard horror stories about someone else's interview. We prepare you for the selection committee by telling you what you can expect to be asked: from the tried-and-true favorites to off-the-wall questions that might make you flinch.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 378 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton Review; 1999 ed edition (September 14, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375752021
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375752025
  • Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,129,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Ever heard of an editor??, May 16, 1999
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This review is from: The Best Medical Schools, 1999 Edition (Annual) (Paperback)
I saw this book in the store and it looked like a good place to start for chosing a med school. I quickly discovered that there were countless erros in it, though. Apparently you need a 4.3 gpa to go U. of Illinois among other great mistakes. The mistakes were so numerous that I didn't feel I could even trust the numbers which looked reasonable. The book did have some useful information, but a lot of it looked like it was copied right out of the MSAR. Buy that instead!
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2.0 out of 5 stars MSAR. Get it., August 27, 2001
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This review is from: The Best Medical Schools, 1999 Edition (Annual) (Paperback)
My parents have been buying me this book almost every year since i was in 10th grade (haven't had the heart to tell them I don't need or want it anymore). it does contain some useful information, but as another reviewer said, it's right out of the Medical School Admission Requirements published by the AAMC. I have about 5 editions of "The Best Medical Schools", and I can tell you that you would be better off getting the MSAR.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I wasted my money buying this book!! A total loss, February 6, 1999
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This review is from: The Best Medical Schools, 1999 Edition (Annual) (Paperback)
I bought this book from Amazon.com, while searching for this type of books a few days back.I read the review at Amazon.com site and the name of "Princeton" all sounded attractive.I ordered it.

Now, to read this book - you really have to be an expert or go to a school to learn how to interpret the book. 1. There are 124 Medical schools in USA and the details of all of them is spread in around 230 pages and can you believe it, it has no index and the schools are arranged alphabetically - if you are looking for school in one State only. You have no mechanism except to go through all the 230 pages. 2. Look at the numbers - Candiadate applied, percentage interviewed and percentage enrolled the numbers appear erroneous - after a thorough research I found out that percentage intervied is percentage of total applied but percentage enrolled is OF the percentage interviewed and so on. Now if you are looking in details of Medical schools sit for a night and calculate and then your book may be bit useful. 3. Now you want to find out the class size of freshers - read at least two pages per school - Lucky if you can find in all of them. I feel, I lost my money - I wish if some how I could return it and get my money back.

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