A Parent’s Guide to Medical School
Support your child on their medical journey and avoid the common mistakes many parents make.
Brought to you by JTT, New Zealand’s leading experts on medical admission and registered NZ not-for-profit. Watch this 20-minute video to get you started on some of the most important perspectives parents need to have.
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Three common mistakes
Did you know that tutoring can make it harder for your child to succeed?
Scroll down to watch this 50-minute video explaining the 3 extremely common and dangerous mistakes that parents make. Most parents believe that doing these 3 things will help their child, but every year we see that it can make things much worse!
The video below was originally presented in July 2021 as part of a parent’s webinar.
Talk to an expert
Take the uncertainty out of medical entry with a free, personalised consultation.
We offer free advice and personalised strategy creation for any students and parents looking for an effective and minimal stress plan for entering medical school. We help with core papers, UCAT, interview, study skills, mentoring and time management.
Expertise you can trust.
We work with over 500 students per year to assist them with their medical journey. Since 2011, approximately 1/3 of all medical students in Auckland have received our help or guidance.
What this experience has taught us is that most students are vastly under-prepared to overcome the hidden challenges of premed. Many students waste their time and effort due to misinformation by profit-focused corporations or by unreliable information from word of mouth or online.
Expertise you can trust.
We work with over 500 students per year to assist them with their medical journey. Since 2011, approximately 1/3 of all medical students in Auckland have received our help or guidance.
What this experience has taught us is that most students are vastly under-prepared to overcome the hidden challenges of premed. Many students waste their time and effort due to misinformation by profit-focused corporations or by unreliable information from word of mouth or online.
A personal strategy. Custom-built for you.
Book Your Free 30-Minute Personalised Medical Admission Consultation Now!
Maitreyi (May-Tree) Jain
JTT Student Advisor
Maitreyi is a JTT alumni and medical student at the University of Auckland. She has served as co-chairperson of her local youth board, an academic prefect at Westlake Girls’, multi-year mentor for GirlBoss NZ, and as a former mentor and 2021 director of mentoring at Women in Health Network. Through her roles, she has worked intimately with hundreds of premedical and medical students from schools across the country. Maitreyi works closely with Dr Justin, founder of JTT, to confidently provide you with NZ’s most dependable advice.
What to expect from your consultation
- A personalised medical admission strategy and a tangible, step-by-step plan suited for your needs.
- Preparation plans for UCAT, interivew/MMI, study skills, time management, stress management and achieving A+ grades.
- Strategies for high school students that set you up for success in University.
- Open and no-pressure discussion around cost and affordability.
As a non-profit, our objective is to help you enter medical school without money getting in the way. All of our membership options can be budget-matched via our extensive scholarships offerings.
As this is a free service, bookings are highly limited to first-in-first-served and are subject to availability.
Our advice comes with a guarantee.
We guarantee that our advice places your best interests first. If it isn't straight-up, comprehensive, individualised and honest, we will give you our membership for free.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Once you have made your booking, you will receive an email confirmation. Your advisor will call or Zoom you at the booked time and by the end of the 30-minute consultation, you should have a clear idea about how to move forward with a plan that you are 100% happy with. Any and all concerns around the medical admission process will be comprehensively addressed.
Our advice will always be with respect to your best interests and our honest recommendations for how you can achieve your goals. If you think the advice you received is not accurate, reliable or with your best interests in mind, we will work for free.
As a social enterprise and non-profit, all of our social impact work is self-funded through the services we charge for. If we think that you would benefit from our services, we will recommend them to you. If we don’t think it is for you, we will not recommend it. The decision will always be yours to make and we will never pressure, force or coerce you into purchasing anything. Simple as that!
We maintain full transparency and if you want to enquire more about our social enterprise model, just ask – we’re always happy to tell you about it!
Our free consultation service is for any student or parent wanting help with entry into, and navigating through the medical pathway, especially those looking at a career in medicine.
If you are looking for more clarity, a reliable plan and less uncertainty, this consultation is for you.
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We pride ourselves on being the best service and student support in New Zealand. If you disagree, we work for free!
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Many tutoring companies have a bad reputation. And we dislike them as much as you do.
JTT is a non-profit organisation created by doctors and medical students to provide the best support and tutoring on the market, without exploiting families for profit. We work with schools and district health boards to help students and parents make informed decisions about their path to medical school.
