Today, I'm sharing the video from a premed workshop I hosted in Denver recently. In it, you'll hear my advice to a room of premeds on how to approach the application cycle—an overview of the timeline. Month by month, what should you be doing as an applicant to medical school?

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In this video, I cover what you should be doing each month of the med school application cycle. I cover how rolling admissions affects this process, and I specifically discuss:

• How Interfolio works for collecting your letters of rec and getting them uploaded to each of the application services at the right time.

• What constitutes a completed application and what allows the med schools to start actually reviewing your application (you need to get your secondaries and your MCAT score in!).

• When the applications are actually sent to the medical schools (from AMCAS and AACOMAS).

• What it means to apply "early decision" to medical school and whether you should do it.

• When the DO acceptances and MD acceptances each start going out to students.

• The common costs of applying to medical school and interviewing.

• The kinds of financial assistance you can get from FAP for MD and DO applications. (I also mention the premed scholarship I run: http://premedscholarship.com/.)

• The rule of thumb for how many letters of recommendation you need, and who to get them from.

• Whether you can use the same letters of rec you used last year (if you applied and didn't get
accepted).

After covering those topics, we sit down for some more general premed Q&A, and I share:

• One thing you to start doing NOW as a premed—even if you're not applying for a few years—that is, start collecting stories. Keep a journal of your clinical experiences, your research experiences, and other activities on your path. Keep track of experiences you have and why they matter to you!

• How to approach the personal statement and common mistakes students make, including how to address red flags and whether you need a DO-specific personal statement.

* Why you need shadowing and the purpose it serves—even as a nurse, PA, or other experienced healthcare worker.

• If it matters whether your clinical experience is paid or volunteer.