u/HeavenlyMagistrate

Hello Everyone!

I’m hoping to apply to medical school in around one year’s time and was wondering if my application seemed at all competitive or is on the right track for medical school applications. Currently my stats are around:

- 3.7 Cumulative GPA, 3.6 Science GPA. Majored in Life Sciences, minored in Chemistry.

- Around 700 hours of research in entomology and (hopefully) one publication in the literature.

- Around 50 hours of Clinical Shadowing (Urology) so far.

- Acted as an officer of 3 clubs during my time at university, two social/arts clubs and founded the undergraduate entomology club.

- Currently no Clinical work experience or volunteer experience, though I do intend to volunteer at a few places this summer and work as an EMT next fall and winter before I apply.

- Taking the MCAT this next winter so no MCAT score yet

Obviously I still have some things left to go before I can apply, but does my application seemed good so far? Is my GPA at all competitive or good enough for medical school? When it comes to volunteer experience, where and what should I volunteer for?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Hello everyone,

I’ve been scammed on Etsy several times with packages never arriving, shipping addresses and labels being “accidentally incorrect”, and a lot of the common scams. I’m quite tired of being scammed on the website and am really worried about buying something else that might turn out to also be a scam.

Today I found a store selling gold rings at a price that happens to be writhing my range, but some of their images for the listing appear as though they may have been photoshopped, the images are strangely cropped, and the reviews on their item(s) are a little generic. At the same time Etsy has informed me they have repeat buyers (not sure if that’s suspicious or not). They do seem to have videos of them with their items but I’m not sure if they just found these videos on the internet and used them for the purpose of scamming people.

Does this sound like a scam? I have not yet bought the item, and I’m willing to either send a link to the store and item I’m looking at for other people to take a look at it if necessary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!