Blueprint MCAT presents our Road to Med School series! Each session, we’ll be taking a look at what you can do to set yourself up for med school in each year of your undergraduate career, from freshman to senior year and beyond. Subscribe to our channel to never miss an episode!

Road to Med School series
Freshman Year Focus: Do’s and Don’ts for pre-meds
How should you prepare for medical school? Is there a road to becoming a doctor? What should you be doing during your undergrad years to get ready for the trials of med school? While some may think you don’t have to worry about any of that until later in your academic career, pre-meds know it’s never too early to start prepping!

In this episode, Blueprint tutor, instructor, and MCAT expert Phil Hawkins discusses ways you can maximize your chances of being accepted into medical school starting in your freshman year. Study strategies, planning ahead, and ways to make your life easier are all fair game, as well as some things NOT to do.

What kind of changes can you expect going from high school to college?
How should you plan your classes?
Does your freshman year affect your medical school application?
How should you tackle your general prerequisite classes?
Does the science you learn now come back on the MCAT?
Will that yoga class come back to bite you later on?
Get answers to all these questions and more during this Road to Medical School episode!

What can you expect from Blueprint's Road to Medical School series?
An in-depth look at each year of your undergraduate career
What you can be doing at each step of your academic life to maximize your chances of getting into medical school
Real world advice for what NOT to do
Common pitfalls and traps that students fall into
Ways to set yourself apart from the crowd and set yourself up for success
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Alright guys, time to get started. We're about to start a new series within our channel, talking about all the different ways that you can maximize your chances, get into medical school. We're going to start at each phase of this journey. Today's starting one is going to be focusing specifically on your freshman year. And so we're going to do freshmen, sophomore, junior, senior year. Each of these stages, there's things that you want to focus on and we're going to help you try to avoid some of those pitfalls that I myself fell into. And I know several other people, there are some things that we wished we would've done different. Speaking of which we should probably do a little bit of an introduction. So, my name is Phil Hawkins. I'm one of the guys that helped to write and edit and put together the exams and books and materials here at Blueprint...

That's mostly it, it's your freshman year, it's a little bit of a transitional year. It's a little bit, take some stuff to get used to. And so the challenges that you're facing this year, aren't quite as difficult as later on, but you still need to make sure you're taking care of business, make sure you're taking those prereqs and planning ahead for your academic career, making sure that you're not making things more difficult later. And also staying on top of that information and remembering all those things that you're going to get tested on later on in life. As you move beyond that, you're going to start moving on into your sophomore year. Your courses are generally going to get a little bit more difficult, but you should be better prepared. You'll be in routines and it'll be habit for you to stay on top of the classes. There's some extra hurdles coming along there with shadowing and job opportunities and things like that. But that is a topic for another video.