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Advisor mode

See shared progress and outstanding feedback across your caseload.

Prepare for each meeting with the plans and drafts students choose to share. Review open tasks, leave comments beside the work and keep track of follow-up.

I’m a pre-health office

The advisor waitlist is not open yet. Students choose what you can see and keep control of their work.

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.

See recent activity and unresolved comments together, so you can decide where a check-in would help.

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

Build reports from recorded outcomes and see which applicants have not shared a result, so you know what to follow up on.

What advisor mode does

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

Three tools for the questions advisors ask: 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.

What’s included
  • 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 access to each section, 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.

What’s included
  • Read and comment on shared sections. Reports can be downloaded; protect those copies outside MedPath.
  • 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.

Reports show how many outcomes are known and count missing results separately. Use that context to decide what follow-up is appropriate.

What’s included
  • Exports stamped with who ran the report, for which office, and on what date.
  • Compare cycles using the same rules for known and unknown outcomes.
  • 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 the sections they want to share, 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 on shared work. You cannot edit it or see sections they did not share. Reports may be downloaded; ending access does not recall existing copies. 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 what to share 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.

How do individual advisors get started?

The advisor waitlist is coming soon and is not collecting signups yet. Explore the tools on this page. If your office needs roster management, advisor seats or cohort reporting, contact our team through the institutions page.

Can I see a student’s essays?

Only if they choose to share Writing, and only to read and comment. You cannot edit their draft. Reports may be downloaded, as explained in Privacy. 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. Previously downloaded reports remain outside MedPath and cannot be recalled. Small-group reports may still identify people even when names are omitted.

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.

Prepare for the conversation, with the work in view.

Explore shared plans, draft comments and caseload follow-up. Advising offices can contact our team about roster management and cohort reporting.

For institutions

Waitlist coming soon

We’re getting the MedPath waitlist ready. Please check back soon.

Contact the MedPath team