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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The admissions team wants to know how your undergraduate program prepared you for success at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. While attending undergraduate studies, you likely learned core skills that would be transferable to your time in med school. These skills might include:
- Academic Research
- Critical Thinking
- Group Work
- Independent Learning
- Presentation Building
- Proposal Writing
- Public Speaking
- Time Management
Discuss the areas where you have excelled academically and talk about where you have room for improvement. At the end of your response, be sure to make a connection between your academic successes and how you will apply this success to your studies at TouroCOM.

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I am very proud of my achievements during my undergrad education. Those courses added so much value that I will bring to my graduate program. My best courses included X, Y, and Z. I feel that I excelled in these because they are related to the medical specialty I plan to end up in. As far as areas of improvement, I can better myself in terms of time management. I overextended myself last semester with volunteer opportunities, and my study time suffered slightly. Now that I have identified the reason behind my time management challenges, I will only see improvement, moving forward."

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"The basic sciences are the core courses for any pre-med student, and I feel that I have shown in my GPA that I am well above average in my ability to excel in these courses. However, because I have spent so much time on those courses, you will see that my liberal arts courses have taken a back-seat concerning my GPA. This result is because of the importance I have placed on my basic science courses."
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