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Advisor mode

Two hundred applicants. One screen that tells you who needs you.

MedPath’s advisor mode turns a list of names into a workable caseload: what’s open, who’s gone quiet, whose access is ending. It does that without ever grading a student or taking their data out of their hands.

I’m a pre-health office

Free for individual advisors and mentors. Nothing required from your students either.

Every student who has shared with you, with what is actually outstanding for each. A dash means they did not share that part.

Advising at scale is mostly archaeology.

Most of an advisor’s week goes to finding out what happened rather than to advising. The tools were built for one applicant at a time, and an office carries fifty to two hundred.

You open fifty accounts to find the three that need you.

A flat list of names tells you nothing. The only way to find out who’s stuck is to click into every one of them, every week.

Feedback lives in a fifteen-email thread.

A draft comes in as an attachment, you comment in the margin, they send back a new version, and nobody can tell which one is current.

Nobody knows who’s gone quiet.

The student who stops replying in July is the one you most needed to catch. There’s no surface that tells you they went quiet.

The end-of-cycle report is a reconciliation nightmare.

AAMC and Liaison reports against a self-reported survey graduating seniors stopped answering, and no honest way to say how wrong the denominator is.

What advisor mode does

Built for the office, not retrofitted from the student app.

Three surfaces, each answering a question an advisor actually asks: who needs me, what did they share, and how did the cycle end.

Feedback that lives on the draft, not in an inbox.

Open a student from the caseload and you land on what they shared: their plan, their schools, the essay they want a read on.

Comments attach to the draft and stay unresolved until the student resolves them. They keep the pen; you keep a record of what you asked.

  • One current version, not five attachments named final_v3_REAL.docx.
  • Scopes the student left off are stated as withheld, never shown empty and guessed at.
  • The only thing you can create is a comment. There is no write path to their work.
One student's shared work. You can comment on it, and nothing else. What they did not share is marked, not hidden.

Consent you can point to.

Every student grants eleven scopes individually, most of them off by default, with an expiry date attached.

You are in a student’s account because they put you there, on terms they set and can change without a conversation. That is a better footing for the relationship, and a much easier one to explain to a compliance office.

  • Read-only on everything. You comment; you never edit or export their work.
  • Access expires on a date they choose. MedPath tells you when it’s about to.
  • Revocation is instant and needs no reason.
Eleven separate switches, most off by default. Your advisor sees the ones you turn on and nothing else.

An outcomes report you can defend in a Dean’s meeting.

MedPath asks the applicant for their outcome at close-out, while they still have a reason to care. That is a far better collection moment than an email to a graduated senior.

Every rate is taken over the outcomes actually recorded. The unknowns are counted separately and keep their reasons, because you can chase a student who closed without recording one and you can’t do anything about one who never shared.

  • Exports stamped with who ran the report, for which office, and on what date.
  • Cycle-over-cycle comparison on the same denominator rules.
  • No inferred outcomes. Silence is never read as a result.
End-of-cycle results. Percentages are taken only over students whose outcome is known, and the unknowns are counted separately.

Where we drew the lines

The four commitments that shaped advisor mode.

Most of these cost us features. We think they’re the reason an office can put this in front of students without a caveat.

The student owns the data. Always.

You see a student’s application because they switched on eleven individual scopes, not because your office holds an account. Rows are partial by design, and a dash means “not shared”, never zero.

Signals, never a risk score.

MedPath will not put a red-amber-green grade on a person. It can’t see effort, circumstances, or anything outside its own tables, and an advisor acting on a fabricated risk grade does real damage. Every chip states something countable instead.

A rate is only taken over known outcomes.

Students who never closed their cycle have no outcome. Counting them understates every result; dropping them silently overstates it. So they get their own bucket, with their own reasons, on the face of the report.

Read-only means read-only.

You can comment. You cannot edit a student’s work, export their essays, or see a scope they left off. Access carries an end date, and they can revoke it in one click without explaining why.

Getting started

Three steps, about ten minutes.

  1. 01

    Tell students who you are.

    Your name, your institution, your title. Students see this when deciding whether to share a whole application with you. Sharing one is a real decision, and a name with no context gets declined.

  2. 02

    Invite your students.

    One email address, or paste a roster. Each student gets a request explaining what you’re asking for. They choose the scopes when they accept, and nothing is visible to you until they do.

  3. 03

    Work the caseload.

    Sort by open items, read what’s shared, leave comments on drafts. At close-out, run the outcomes report.

Advisor questions.

Do my students need to pay for anything?

No. What a student shares with you doesn’t depend on their account. Advisor mode itself is free for individual advisors and mentors. If your office wants roster management, seat administration, and cohort reporting, get in touch and we’ll work out what that looks like for you.

Can I see a student’s essays?

Only if they switched on the Writing scope, and only to read and comment. You can’t edit a draft, and you can’t export it. Most students share their plan, schools and requirements first, and open up writing when they want a specific read.

What happens when a student graduates or revokes access?

Access ends immediately and their data disappears from your caseload. Any outcome they recorded before that stays in your cycle report as an anonymised row, because the report is your office’s record, not a copy of their account.

Does MedPath tell me which students are at risk?

No, and it won’t. It tells you what is countably true right now: three tasks past their date, no recorded activity in 21 days, two comments you left that are still unresolved. What that means about a student is your read to make, with context the software doesn’t have.

Can I comment on a draft without the student losing control of it?

That’s the whole design. Comments are attached to the draft and marked unresolved until the student resolves them. They keep the pen; you keep a record of what you asked.

How do I get a whole cohort onboarded?

Paste a roster or upload a CSV of names and emails and MedPath sends each student an invitation. They choose what to share when they accept, and nothing is visible to you until they do. See the institutions page for how this works at office scale.

Stop opening fifty accounts to find the three that need you.

Advisor mode is free for individual advisors and mentors. If you’re running an office, we should talk about roster management and cohort reporting.

For institutions

The waitlist opens soon.

MedPath is launching this year. We are putting the finishing touches on the waitlist, and the link will live right here the moment it is ready.

Nothing to sign up for yet, so there is no form to fill in and nothing to remember. Come back, or have a look at what MedPath does in the meantime.

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