Medical School Strategy Sessions

Craft a Medical School Personal Statement and Overall AMCAS® Strategy

A one-on-one conversation with Dr. Finkel about your medical school candidacy will make you a more competitive applicant. After reviewing your background, Dr. Finkel pinpoints how to highlight your strengths and minimize your liabilities, select effective faculty recommendation writers, choose distinctive personal statement topics, assess the number and quality of schools to target and create a strategic timeline for task completion. Dr. Finkel helps a wide range of medical school applicants, from those who will be applying in several years and want to create a detailed, long-term plan to those who are applying imminently.

Applicants demonstrating financial hardship through a current AAMC Fee Assistance Program grant may be considered for reduced rates at the discretion of Dr. Finkel. Contact her for more information.

For applicants interested in comprehensive assistance, check out “The Complete Package.”

Step 1. Make payment for your session below.

Step 2. Send your background information and at least two means of reaching you (cell, land line, etc.) to insidermedical@gmail.com.

Step 3. Make an appointment. Click here to schedule your Strategy Session.

By submitting payment, you agree to abide by our Terms and Conditions.

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Don’t even know where to start with your personal statement?

Click here to read about the Writer’s Block Package for brainstorming and editing help.

Strategy Sessions
Strategy Session – $550
(1-hr session by phone + pre-review of your background information)
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Video Option – $45
(Add live Zoom® video to your session with Dr. Finkel)
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Dr. Finkel offers many available time slots for Strategy Sessions and Mock Interviews. Occasionally, however, applicants need a highly expedited timeline. Such requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis depending on Dr. Finkel’s availability; pricing varies based on the volume of requests at the time and the level of urgency. To make such a request, text Dr. Finkel at (320) MFINKEL and specify all of your open, upcoming time slots. Dr. Finkel will reply, advising of her availability and pricing, during business hours PST or the next day if received after hours.

About Dr. Michelle Finkel

Dr. Michelle Finkel

Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more

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