The MSAR is a MUST HAVE!!!!

When I was applying, I had these resources to help me out. I definitely recommend that you get these books. They helped me out a lot.

The MSAR book contains everything you need to know about medical schools. For every med school, the book devotes two pages of detailed information. It has every statistics you need to know about the med school and what kind of specific applicants they're looking for. For example, Drexel Med is very big on female physicians, so in your interview you definitely should mention that.

But the most valuable part of this book is that it has an almost complete list of all BS/MD programs in the US (by almost complete, I mean it's not as complete as mine. But don't worry about. It has all the major ones). Even better, it lists stats on like how many people applied to the program, how many got interviews, and how many got in eventually. This could help you narrow down the number of programs you apply to. For example, NEOUCOM accepted almost no out-of-state applicants. Therefore, you should not bother applying to NEOUCOM if you were OOS. Also, it also lists the average SAT scores for each of these programs. A definite buy if you're applying to BS/MD programs.

If you don't want to spend that much money, you could always buy the 2010 version, which is cheaper. I wouldn't recommend it though, because every year the AAMC updates its contents.