How we source, check, and stand behind everything you read.

Most of the medical-school-admissions internet runs on guesswork dressed up as fact — invented acceptance odds, "average" stats with no source, screenshots of numbers nobody can trace. We built Preceptorly to be the opposite. This page explains exactly how we handle information.

Who stands behind this

Preceptorly's content is created and reviewed by Jonathan Kelley, DO, a practicing emergency medicine physician who has precepted — taught and mentored — medical students. A preceptor is the seasoned doctor who shows you the ropes, and that's the standard every page here is held to: would a real physician mentor put their name on this and hand it to their own student?

Every guide and every school page carries a real byline and a "last reviewed" date. There is no anonymous content farm behind Preceptorly. A physician is accountable for what you read. Learn more about the founder →

Where our numbers come from

When we publish a figure — a median GPA, an MCAT range, a matriculation number — it comes from a primary, official source. In order of preference:

• The school's own published admissions data — the class profile or applicant snapshot a medical school posts itself.
• Official association data — the AAMC (for MD programs) and AACOM (for DO programs), including their published aggregate reports.
• Licensed reference data — established admissions databases used under proper license and cited as such.

We do not scrape data in violation of anyone's terms of service, and we do not pull numbers from forums, aggregators, or "someone said on Reddit." If a figure is on a Preceptorly page, we can point to where it came from.

How we verify a figure

Every published statistic is traced back to its source, dated, and marked with when it was last checked. Admissions data changes year to year, so a number without a date is a number you can't trust — which is why ours always carry one. When a school updates its class profile, we update the page and move the review date forward.

We keep facts and interpretation clearly separate. A median MCAT is a fact. Whether a school is a reach, target, or foundation for you is our interpretation of that fact relative to your own numbers — and we label it that way, never dressing an opinion up as data.

When a number doesn't exist yet

What we will never do

These aren't marketing lines. They're the rules the whole company runs on:

• ✕We never invent a number. No fabricated stats, success rates, or user counts.
• ✕We never give admission odds. We will never tell you a "percent chance of getting in" — no honest tool can, and anyone who claims to is selling you something.
• ✕We never write your essays. We coach your writing and push your thinking; the words stay yours.
• ✕We never fake a testimonial or a screenshot. Real quotes only, with permission.
• ✕We never promise acceptance. We help you prepare better and see clearly. We don't guarantee outcomes, because no one honestly can.

Corrections

We get things wrong sometimes, and when we do we want to fix it fast. If you spot a figure that looks off — a stat that doesn't match a school's own page, a broken source, anything — email us at jon@preceptorly.ai and we'll check it against the primary source and correct it if you're right. Accuracy matters more to us than being right.

Disclosures

Preceptorly is founded by a practicing physician, and we say so openly — it's who we are, not something we hide. When we ever work with a paid partner or creator, that relationship is disclosed clearly and follows FTC guidelines. We'd rather lose a click than mislead you about where something came from.