Dr. Hernandez-Ramon was an incredible mentor throughout my medical school application journey. From our initial meetings, she took a holistic approach to evaluating my qualifications, experiences, and background, offering thoughtful and realistic feedback that helped me identify both my strengths and areas for growth. She kept me accountable with regular check-ins and was genuinely committed to my progress and confidence. Her ability to truly understand me as an applicant, pinpoint opportunities for improvement, and draw on her deep knowledge of the admissions process gave me the boost of confidence I needed to apply to schools I never imagined would later offer me interviews, let alone acceptance! I’m truly grateful for her guidance and the care she brought to every step of the process.

AM Francis attends Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and can be contacted at [email protected]. 

Dr Hernandez-Ramon was instrumental in my success applying to medical school. Her thorough review of my application and essays helped me turn random floating thoughts and difficult lived experiences into a story that could be easily understood and that could portray my real journey. As a result, I had a very successful interview season and had multiple medical school acceptances.

• I took the MCAT twice. The first time around, I studied very long hours for many weeks, trying to learn every single detail. It was still not enough for a competitive score. The second time around, I had Dr Hernandez-Ramon’s mentorship, which completely changed the way I tackled the content and exam. Her personalized advice and years of experience helped me tailor my studying to my specific areas of weaknesses and play my strengths accordingly. Her thorough mentorship covered basic aspects, such as how to memorize details, and also bigger scale things, such as what time of the day to study and for how long. As a result, I was able to score 14 points higher the second time around and successfully applied and got accepted to many medical schools.
• Once I moved on to medical school, I stayed in touch with Dr Hernandez-Ramon. She remained a calm and warm acquaintance and I was very fortunate to work with her through advising events. Not only am I thankful to her for helping me get into medical school, but also for supporting me beyond, and for being an ally and friend when I most needed it. I would recommend her services to any premed!

Victoria attended Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and just matched into her #1 residency program. You can contact her here: [email protected]

Thank you for your all wisdom and guidance throughout this process. It only felt right to let you be one of the first to know that I was just accepted to Kaiser!!

Feeling so grateful and blessed, especially because of the financial situation. Will hear back from the other schools I’ve interviewed at (Colorado, Northwestern, Duke, Harvard, Ohio State)  within the next couple of months. But again, just grateful for having even one acceptance.

I was accepted at Kaiser, Duke, Colorado, and Ohio State, and I’m waitlisted in Northwestern and Harvard. I am so grateful for you and your encouragement throughout these past two years. You were truly a critical part to navigate this hard process and for my sucess, and I will miss you dearly.

I wanted to reach out to thank you for all of the advising, feedback and guidance you provided me during my medical school application cycle this past year. I’m happy to share that I received a number of acceptances to MD/PhD programs and have decided to commit to the University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon MSTP. I am very excited for all that is to come and couldn’t have gotten here without your help.

Thank you so much for all of your help always and never letting me give up and being there for me when I had no idea what I was doing. I could not have done it without you!!

I just wanted to let you know that I was recently accepted to the UW MSTP! I know that getting this opportunity is a reflection of the wonderful support that I’ve received throughout my life, so I want to thank you again for your support throughout the application process. It was extremely helpful reviewing my application with you, and I really appreciate all the time you spent to provide feedback.

I’d like to take this time to thank you again for all your support, for believeing in me, and for your advice in my academic goals. Just to keep you updated, I will start my clership year in Upenn so I’ll leave behind the classroom and will start my rotations in clinics and hospitals…

… I plan to attend UPenn Perelman school of medicine with full scholarship in August 2022. I’m SO VERY grateful for all your support and advice during this process.

I wanted to let you know that I selected “Commit to Enroll” at University of Pittsburgh medical school. I appreciate your work in advising me over the years. I’ve had many advisors (2-3 advisors in college bc I transferred colleges, one external advisor who I later dropped, and I met several other advisors (…) in the last couple of years to get a sense of different approaches. I have to say your advice was the most helpful by far. Some advisors quickly skimmed my essays and said my app was good (I think they wanted me to leave their office), while others gave advice that didn’t make sense (to get a masters, which I almost did). I can see that you read every sentence of my personal statement, dissected every section of my app, and gave very thorough feedback and constructive criticism. Thank you for this great mentorship. I hope to bump into someone like you for a residency mentor! My application cycle was much more successful this time. I received interviews at 1/3 of the MD programs I applied to and got into 4 schools.