Hope this is ok to ask here, any here has had good experience with any counselor for medical school admissions application, interview process can you please refer or DM? Thank you.
People can share experiences on a general level, but specific recommendations are not allowed
@Madd123 Have you looked at all of the FAQ threads on this section of the forum?
Hoping @DramaMama2021 or @WayOutWestMom has a way to link them all as a group for you here.
Also, you can ask questions here, and folks with some prior experience either as med school applicants, parents of doctors, or actual doctors might be able to give you some good advice!
You can start with these. But there are others…
The rest might be here…if I did this correctly…click on the link and there are a bunch of pinned FAQ about medical school.
The Pre-Med & Medical School forum can be found here. The FAQ topics are in the main forum and the relevant subforums, but here are shortcuts to a few that may be of interest.
FAQ: Med School Interviews
FAQ: Medical School Applications
FAQ: Pre-Med Extracurricular Activities
FAQ: Letters of Recommendation
FAQ: How to Pay for Med School
Thread for 2026-2027 Applicants
(ETA: cross-posted with @thumper1 
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For med school counselors, I would recommend one because of the competitiveness of entry as well as nuance in the application process/strategy, in addition to the resources here.
I would look at counselor associations like NACAC, IECA, HECA as one place to find recommendations. Your student might also ask their friends and/or college’s pre-health advisors if they have any recommendations.
For a medical school admissions counselor look for one that is a member of NAAHP (National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions).
Most NAAHP advisors work for universities and colleges in the health profession advising office, but there are some private ones.
There is a number of medical school admission advisors on the internet who are retired physicians/med students or similar. who don’t have membership in this organization and they claim a good rate of success but don’t provide detailed information about that. Caveat emptor. Some are good; some aren’t.
But, please understand, no advisor can guarantee any one individual will get a med school admission.
If you are looking for an advisor for a BA/MD/DO program, a NAAHP advisor may be useful, though they generally work with older students.
Advisors familiar with general college admissions may or may not be familiar with the specifics of BA/MD/DO program and may give absolutely wrong-headed advice about applying.
BA/MD/DO admission are much, much more competitive than regular college admissions. The number of students admitted to BA/MD represents only a tiny fraction of the number of total incoming med students in the US–around 3% nationally.
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@Madd123 where are you in your schooling now? Undergrad (what year)? Or what?
According to her posting history, it appears her child is a rising junior in college.
My opinion…start with your health careers advising folks where you are attending undergrad. The strength of these advising offices does vary, but it’s possible yours can help you at least somewhat.
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It appears your student is a junior in college. The best source of information is her college’s pre-med or pre-health advising center because that will be specific advice related to her candidacy as an applicant from that specific college, which is important. Most have data on what GPA and MCAT correlates with what admission to which schools, and most give excellent advice on whether or not to gap year, and what is possible for that gap year.
For basic information, your student should read the AMCAS site, starting with FAQs, and look through the plethora of data there.
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I absolutely agree with:
@thumper1 and
@2Devils
At a number of universities, they have a health advising professions club/ group.
I know that with our daughter’s school, they started by getting their health students in the habit of speaking to other students at school events.
Later, they helped to place students in volunteer positions at university-sponsored clinics in their junior year.
During their initial exposure in sophomore year, they were learning-“non classroom” practices:
- bedside manner
- taking vitals
- practicing universal precautions
- Latin “abbreviations” used in notation charting.
- Medicare/Insurance basics.
Tell your daughter to use her university support system.