Dr Paul Lowe Admissions Advisor – Your BS/MD Admissions Game Plan

February 20, 2024April 7, 2024

What’s the Secret to Our Clients’ High Acceptance Rate to BS/MD Programs?

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Many parents (and students) believe that top grades and SAT scores, plus an expansive resume (with lots of extracurricular activities) are all you need to get into a BS/MD program. It’s an erroneous belief that causes top students to get rejected from BS/MD programs as well as League colleges after years of hard work!

Year after year, Dr. Lowe’s clients stand out amongst other applicants and are accepted to BS/MD programs. Here is a list of strategies that are unique only to BS/MD Admissions Advisors with Dr. Paul Lowe, Admissions Advisor/Expert:

WOW Factor Development: We identify and uncover each student’s distinguishing trademark so that their personal brand can be placed in a positive light to admissions committees.
Insider’s Knowledge-Network: We utilize and leverage our proprietaryknowledge, network of contacts and close working relationships with top colleges and BS/MD programs to help our clients.
Professional Relationships/Collaborations/Connections: Throughout the years, we have developed professional relationships, collaborations and connections with a myriad of faculty, administration and admissions officers and personnel at colleges/universities and BS/MD programs through professional conferences, seminars, meetings, networking sessions and college visitations.
Foresight: By understanding the admissisons landscape, we have developed the foresight to help our clients avoid risks and irrevocable mistakes that can cause rejections. We know when to effectively adapt our strategies to avoid risks and mistakes.
Character Development: Valued attributes are not measured in transcripts, test scores and resumes. We help students develop authentic presentations of themselves in the application process by developing and showcasing: intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues.
Communication Intelligence: Admissions criteria also includes your ability to effectively and passionately communicate your desire for admissions with admissions personnel verbally, non-verbally and literally. Are you mindful of how you present yourself and how people perceive you? We develop personalized strategies so that our clients develop meaningful first and last impressions verbally, nonverbally and literally.
Simulated/Mock Admissions Committee: We continually review and build your student profile to application completion using a simulated admissions committee approach using our team and former admissions officers By doing so, we know how different college admissions committees will evaluate your application and therefore increase your chances of acceptance.
Empirical Analytics: We embrace Empirical Analytics by using data, technology, client-case studies, campus-expert panels, our proprietary knowledge, and over 28 years of experience to answer questions, navigate challenges, predict outcomes and to help our clients make informed decisions that provide results-based admissions success.
Working Directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, Admissions Expert: Unlike other educational consulting firms, where clients are assigned to different employees or consultants, Dr. Lowe, as lead consultant/admissions advisor, personally works with each of his clients so that they directly benefit from his expertise, experience, contacts and the collective knowledge of his educational team. Dr. Lowe’s exclusivity allows him to provide individualized attention, commitment and principal availability to each client through weekly Skype/Zoom sessions.

Unlike other educational consulting firms, where clients are assigned to different employees or consultants, Dr. Lowe, as lead consultant/admissions advisor, personally works with each of his clients so that they directly benefit from his expertise, experience, contacts and the collective knowledge of his educational team.

Dr. Lowe’s exclusivity allows him to provide individualized attention, commitment and principal availability to each client. Track record – client acceptances to BS/MD programs.

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Dr. Paul Lowe is CEO, managing director and lead admissions advisor of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group. PinnacleAAG is a global advisory firm providing strategic admissions advisory services to families and students seeking admissions to elite U.S. boarding and day schools, Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities, direct BS/MD programs, top medical schools and graduate programs. BS/MD Admissions Advisors, a PinnacleAAG affiliate, provides BS/MD medical school admissions advice to U.S and international students who are interested in gaining admissions to direct U.S. BS/MD programs.

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

BS/MD Program and College Admissions: How Will Your Character Be Assessed?

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The work of selecting students for admissions into BS/MD programs and Ivy League colleges and universities is becoming more complex. Each year college admissions officers and their committees review thousands of applications and seek to predict the likelihood of those applicants to meaningfully contribute socially, culturally and personally to their specific college communities. BS/MD programs, Ivy League and highly selective colleges use a team-review process to holistically evaluate each applicant when creating a particular class during the admissions process. That means acceptance to these colleges is not based on a simple formula of cognitive measures (grades and test scores). Instead, admissions officers consider a variety of factors, including the student’s academic record, extracurricular interests, intellectual achievements and personal background, to decide who will be rejected or accepted.

In the hypercompetitive selection process, College admissions offices rely less on cognitive-based measures (standardized tests and grades) and more on character attributes when choosing applicants. They are turning to research showing that a student’s potential for long-term success is predicted less by test scores and more by traits such as optimism, curiosity, resilience, metacognition, awareness, and adaptability.

College admissions professionals have spent several years determining other character traits that are most important to their respective institutions. When admissions officers have chosen the applicants they plan to present to their admissions committee, the applicants have been determined to have traits such as honesty, resilience, curiosity, perseverance, leadership and the capacity for teamwork. Traditionally, these character traits are discovered by admissions officers using personal essays, interviews, lists of extracurricular activities, and letters of recommendation to get a holistic view of applicants. Admissions officers now have other tools for character assessment at their disposal.

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For college admissions, character traits tied to an interview, essay answers and letters of recommendation, are just as important and impressive, if not more so as, academic credentials.

I have always advised my clients to consider their character attributes and the holistic approach as they prepare for college admissions. With regard to direct BS/MD clients, BS/MD programs assess student character or the lack of their good character in many ways. The latter, will of course cause rejections!

Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe is the managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group network. He and his team of admissions advisors, through the admissions affiliate, BS/MD Admissions Advisors, help high school students get accepted to BS/MD programs. As a result of his continuous clients’ acceptances into BS/MD programs, his clients have considered him: BS/MD Admissions Guru.

Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.

December 18, 2023

Congratulations to Our Clients – Accepted Early Decision/Brown PLME

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Last week, Brown University admitted 898 students out of the pool of 6,244 early decision applicants to become the first members of the undergraduate class of 2028. I am happy to report that several of the 898 admitted students are our clients!

And some are PLME! Congratulations!

Here are our acceptance rate/results for Brown PLME of the 10 clients who applied early decision:

7 accepted to Brown PLME
2 accepted to Brown (the College)
1 deferred to regular decision (but received secondary applications from several BS/MD programs including RPI/AMC.

Brown University: “PLME applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a video portfolio as part of the application process. The video portfolio provides a wonderful opportunity for us to learn more about you.”

This year, Dr. Lowe and his admissions team partnered with their affiliate website: College Admissions Video Productions and successfully advised their clients in developing amazing video portfolios!

December 10, 2023

Congratulations to Our Clients – Albany Medical College Application Notifications

Congratulations to our clients who have received secondary applications from Albany Medical College!

What does this mean regarding the Application Process: Rensselaer reviewed their Common Applications (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Albany Medical College – Accelerated Physician-Scientist Combined BS/MD Program) and now has referred them, as qualified students, to Albany Medical College (AMC), which will then review the secondary applications and reach out to certain students for an interview (in January, February, or March).

From that pool of students, AMC will make offers of admission to the program. The application process is lengthy and notification begins in early April.

For our clients, in this highly selective process, it’s one step closer to being accepted into a top direct combined BS/MD program and the goal of becoming medical doctors.

December 7, 2023

BS/MD Program Notification Dates For 2023-2024 Applicants

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It’s the 2023-2024 BS/MD Program admissions season! Competition to direct BS/MD Programs is are expected to be high especially with the immediate closing of several programs including. Therefore, expect many applicants with high SAT/ACT scores, high grades and SEEMINGLY perfect applications and personal statements, shadowing doctors, published research papers and years of preparation to be rejected.

Based on our 27 years of experience, we expect, based our strategies, in-depth planning and Weekly-Skype sessions with Dr. Lowe that many of our clients will be notified about the positive progress of their BS/MD applications. Several of our clients have already received secondary applications from RPI/Albany Medical College!

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Here are some notification dates for BS/MD Programs:

Augusta University: Admissions decisions released on April 1.
Baylor University: Interview notifications sent in January or February. Admissions decisions released by March.
Brown University: Early decision applicants are notified by Mid-December, Regular Decision applicants are notified by early April.
Drew University: Admissions decisions released in April.
Drexel University: Interview notifications are sent at the end of January.
Indiana University – Evansville: Interview notifications sent by November 17, 2023. Admissions decisions are released by December 22, 2023.
Mercer University: Notified by the end of January of interviews, which are held in February. Students are notified by mid-March of admissions decisions.
Nova Southeastern University: Interview notifications sent out on a rolling basis, starting in October. Admissions decisions are released 2-3 weeks after the interview.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI): Admissions decisions released in early April.
Rutgers University-Newark: Admissions decisions released in April
Saint Louis University: Admissions decisions released in March
Seton Hall University: Rolling Admissions
Sophie Davis Biomedical Education: Admissions decisions released by April 1.
St. Bonaventure University: Admissions decisions released in mid-late March.
Stony Brook University: Admissions decisions released by April 1.
Texas Tech University: Interview notifications are sent by February. Admissions decisions released by April.
The College of New Jersey: Admissions decisions released in April
Tulane University: Admissions released by April 1.
University of Alabama – Birmingham: Interview notifications sent by February 15. Admissions decisions released by Mid-March.
University of Arizona: Acceptances sent out in April.
University of Colorado-Denver: Interviews are in early December; find out after 2-3 weeks.
University of Illinois at Chicago: Admissions decisions released by April 1.
University of Missouri-Kansas City: Interview notifications sent at the end of January. Admissions decisions released by April 1.
University of Pittsburgh: Notified if moving forward to medical school in December.
University of Rochester: Interview notifications are sent in January. Admissions decisions released by April
University of South Alabama: Notified in early February with interviews taking place in March.
University of Toledo: Decision letters are sent out 1-2 weeks after university acceptance.
Virginia Commonwealth University: Interview notifications are sent out at the end of January.
Wayne State University: Interview notifications are sent at the end of January, and successful applicants are notified within 2-3 weeks.

September 24, 2023September 24, 2023

Choosing the Best BS/MD Admissions Advisor/Consultant

So, your child has decided to apply to BS/MD programs and you, as a parent, don’t want to make mistakes that can cause instant REJECTIONS (after years of hard work). You want to hire an experienced and qualified admissions consultant/advisor who can increase your chances of ACCEPTANCE. What’s next?

Here is a checklist of questions to help you decide why Dr. Paul Lowe and his team at BS/MD Admissions Advisors are the best:

1. BS/MD Admissions Experience

How many years has the consultant advised applicants applying to BS/MD programs? Experience is important! We have over 20 years of experience! We specialize in providing comprehensive consulting on all facets of the BS/MD application not just hourly help on individual elements of the application. (Since BS/MD admissions rates are under 10%, it’s important to get comprehensive help on the whole application and the admissions process.)
Does the consultant firm have graduates of BS/MD programs with admissions advisory experience? Yes. Several of our supporting team are graduates of BS/MD programs. Dr. Cartwright-Lowe, senior consultant and managing director is a graduate of Brown PLME.
Has anyone in your consulting firm worked in an allopathic (MD) medical school admissions office or BS/MD program? Experience working in a medical school admissions office is probably the most important factor as no one in the field knows more about admissions than individuals who have worked in the admissions offices of the medical schools to which you will be applying. Our supportive admissions officer team members have served on the admissions committees for BS/MD programs.
Does the consultant work full-time as an admissions consultant? This is all we do! One-hundred percent of our time is spent as admissions advisors. We are NOT medical residents or doctors who are part-time admissions advisors. Providing admissions advice is our full-time job!
Does the consultant visit university and BS/MD programs? We continually visit colleges and universities with BS/MD programs. We are not office-bound. We continually visit universities to network with admissions officers to understand the changes in individual BS/MD program admissions policies and to discover what they are looking for in applicants to benefit our clients.

2. Application & Essay Editing

Does the person editing your application, personal statement and essays have experience in reviewing and rating thousands of medical school applications, personal statements and essays? Dr. Lowe has experience reviewing thousands of college applications, personal statements and BS/MD essays for over 20 years. In addition, he works with a team of former admissions officers who work closely and collectively with him who have the knowledge of what admissions committees are looking for in applications and personal statements. We know what to add and cut out in your applications and essays!
How many times do you review your applications and essays? As a committee, Dr. Lowe and his team review applications and essays at least 10 times and send at least 4 revisions to clients.

3. Methodology and Communication

Does the consultant have a clear methodology for determining your unique positioning strategy or narrative and for driving the entire process? We work closely with each client, using our knowledge experience and contacts in the field to ensure that our clients are competitive and unique. This gives our clients and added advantage!
Do I work with several different consultants or one consultant? You work personally, individually and directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, physician-scientist and admissions advisor. He uses a team-based approach with his associates to help his clients. We use a committee-based approach to determine the correct strategies for our clients.

4. International Students

Does the consultant provide services for international students? We specialize in providing comprehensive consulting on all facets of the BS/MD application for (non-U.S. permanent residents/ non-U.S. citizens). There are only a limited number of U.S. BS/MD programs that even consider international student applicants. Therefore, trying this process on your own or with an inexperienced admissions expert will certainly have you REJECTED!
How does the consultant provide admissions advisory services to international students who live abroad? We continually and conveniently communicate through Skype, email and phone.

5. Cost and Clients Served

How does the cost of the consultant compare to other consultants? You get what you pay for! An inexpensive consultant means inexpensive service. Be careful about companies that offer hourly services at too low a cost. We have been in business for over 20 years because of our success rates. Our fee is an academic investment for future success.
Is the consultant someone in demand nationally who works with students across the entire country? We work with students throughout the U.S. (and the world). Dr. Paul Lowe is truly in demand. He works with clients and helps them gain admissions to BS/MD programs including: Brown PLME, RPI/Albany Med, Case Western, Penn State, Union College/Albany Med, University of Rochester, TCNJ, NJIT, Rice/Baylor, Stony Brook, SUNY Downstate and more.

This year, 11 of my students were accepted to Brown PLME. Blog: Brown 260th Open Convocation. That’s not including the 14 who were accepted the Brown University (the College)!

August 6, 2023

Common Application 2023-2024: New Supplemental Essays

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August 1 was the launch day for the Common App 2023-2024 as well as the first cycle since the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling. As a result, many colleges are changing their supplemental applications to reflect the shift and have introduced new essay prompts this year, many of which are clearly linked to the Supreme Court decision. Many highly selective colleges, including the Ivies, have already revised or added supplemental questions which range from direct references to the Supreme Court decision to broader questions about an applicant’s cultural background and lived experiences.

Examples: This year, Harvard removed a previously optional essay prompt on its supplement and replaced it with five required short-answer questions. Brown University modified its PLME question and now has seven Brown (the college) supplement questions rather than three the previous years.

WHAT’S THE RESULT: increase probability of mistakes and rejection for students who are unable to navigate essays and their college admissions profiles. I predict that many top students, after years of hard work and without expert advice, will simply be rejected as failed applicants.

Dr. Lowe and his team have been and is currently participating in conferences and seminars with Ivy League and BS/MD program admissions officers regarding what colleges are doing with supplemental essays in response to the US Supreme Court decision prohibiting race-conscious affirmative action and how admissions officers are responding to it.

Dr. Lowe, therefore, is aware and possesses the cutting-edge and knowledge of what successful strategies students should use to write meaningful and convincing college essays to increase their chances of acceptance to Ivy League and BS/MD programs.

June 14, 2023

Several Clients Accepted to Multiple BS/MD Programs

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The 2003-2004 college and BS/MD program admissions season is revving up for rising seniors and it is expected from our sources to be another hyper-competitive year.

Parents who inquire about our services wish to boost their children’s’ chances of acceptance to BS/MD programs. They want to hire an expert who provides results! Well, last year several of our clients were accepted to two or more of the the below BS/MD program.

Brown University Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME)
Case Western Reserve University Pre-Professional Scholars Program in Medicine
George Washington University – Seven-Year Dual BA/MD Program
New Jersey Institute of Technology – New Jersey Medical School
Pennsylvania State University Accelerated Premedical-Medical Program
RPI/Albany Medical College – Physician-Scientist Program
University of Connecticut Special Program in Medicine
University Rochester – Rochester Early Medical Scholars (REMS)
Virginia Commonwealth University – Guaranteed Admission Program

By having continuous Weekly Skype/Zoom sessions directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, brainstorming ideas, developing admissions strategies, essay review, and mock interview sessions to develop amazing student profiles, our BS/MD clients stand out and get accepted to programs

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

Rejected from BS MD Programs: What Happened?

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Seniors who have applied to BS/MD programs are now entering their last semester or quarter of the senior year. Thousands who applied to BS/MD programs were rejected. What happened?

Here are 35 ways why high school students and BS/MD applicants (and their parents) cause their own rejections!

Follow what other students did the previous year.
Follow advice from online platforms.
Read books with obsolete advice.
Hire an educational consultant who has NO experience in BS/MD admissions.
Assume that because you have great standardized test scores you have great shot.
Assume that your school’s college counselor understands the nuances of BS/MD programs and medical school admissions.
You assume that you received strong and unparalleled letters of recommendations.
Your extracurricular activities letters of recommendations are from the wrong recommenders.
Hire multiple educational consultants in an attempt to get the lowest price.
Have your parents or relatives write your Common Application and BS/MD supplemental essays.
Your Common Application, essays, letters of recommendations and profile are disconnected.
Your high school college counselor and/or teachers were unsupportive or did not write a strong letter of recommendation.
Your applications are vague and generic.
Your supplemental essays are disjointed and don’t answer the questions.
Your application sounds “unique” just like everyone else’s on the internet or your community.
Your research projects and internships sound just like everyone else.
You assume that admissions officers will not find errors in your application and narrative.
You made mistakes during the undergraduate interview.
You made mistakes during the alumnus/a interview
You made mistakes during the medical school interview.
You assume that other students in your class are not applying to BS/MD programs.
You assume that you are not making mistakes that will cause your rejection.
You assume that the narrative you and/or your parents created will be believable by admissions officers.
Your “Why Doctor Essay” was filled with reasons why you can’t be a doctor or should not be a doctor.
Your “connections” or your parents’ actually are the reasons why you will be rejected.
You assume that because your parent or parents are physicians that they understand BS/MD admissions.
You assume that you can game BS/MD admissions when you are actually gaming yourself out of spot!
You assume that there is no bias and/or discrimination in college admissions.
You assume that by talking with a student who is currently enrolled in a BS/MD program that you are in!
You make mistakes involving etiquette, manners and attitude.
You assume that winning multiple awards will get you in.
You lack meaningful extracurricular activities.
You underestimate consequences of the closings of BS/MD programs.
Your college admissions profile sounds like the the thousands of applicants that will be or are REJECTED!
You decide not to hire an expert with years of experience, contacts and proven acceptance rates – A BS/MD Admissions Guru, because you believe it’s not worth it!

HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SHOULD NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES!

With our Admissions Data Analytic software, our proprietary knowledge, 27 years of experience and our vast network and contacts, we provide an ADMISSIONS ADVANTAGE for our clients resulting in acceptance letters! Because of our proprietary software, we know that no other educational consulting company can provide this type of advantage!

That’s what makes us DIFFERENT! – RESULTS! Our Brown PLME 2023 Acceptance results!

Our clients experience our DIFFERENCE and are accepted to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities, BS/MD programs including, Brown PLME, RPI/Albany Med, Siena/Albany Med, TCNJ/New Jersey Medical, University of Rochester/REMS, Texas Tech UMSI, NJIT/New Jersey Medical, Virginia Commonwealth U/Guaranteed Admission Program, Penn State/Jefferson Medical College, Seton Hall/Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, UConn – Special Program in Medicine.

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March 23, 2023

Texas Tech Undergraduate to Medical School Initiative (UMSI) Acceptance – 2023

CONGRATULATIONS to our client who was accepted to Texas Tech’s UMSI program. You are among the 8 students who were accepted to this highly competitive BS/MD program!

The Undergraduate to Medical School Initiative (UMSI) is a combined BS/MD program: Honors College of Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine offer designed for academically talented and highly motivated students interested in pursuing a M.D. degree. A select group of Honors College students entering first year are guaranteed admission to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine after completion of a bachelor’s degree at Texas Tech University.

Out of over 300 applicants, between 30-50 are interviewed and then finally 8 are ACCEPTED. That’s a 2.6% acceptance rate! Our client can technically be called “DOCTOR” as a high school senior! Wow!

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