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Title. Letter of rec writer accidentally sent old draft of LOR. Got an email from cornell saying it was undated which made me investigate lol.

I resubmitted the new draft (with date) to same letter ID. How screwed am I? Schools will basically see old and new stapled together. Also no contradictory info btw the two.

Will I be ok?

Title. Main clinical experience and PS revolve around infertility and my MA experience in a fertility clinic. Given this, should I still apply to jesuit schools?

Have been getting mixed answers. Thank you!

Hi everyone! I'm a recent UC Davis graduate looking for a way to give back to the Davis community.

Henna has been a hobby of mine for many years, and I'd love to volunteer by offering free henna crowns for individuals who have experienced hair loss during chemotherapy. I've seen how meaningful this can be for helping people feel beautiful and confident during or after treatment, and I would love to use this hobby to support someone locally.

If you know of any breast cancer support groups, organizations, or individuals in the Davis area who might be interested, I'd really appreciate any recommendations. I'd also be happy to connect directly with anyone who thinks this might bring them or a loved one a little joy.

Thank you!

Does a group already exist? Thought it might be nice to have people going thru the same thing to talk to lol

lol for the adversity prompt I had a few ideas, I'm a reapplicant and I used #1 last year. Which one should I choose this time around?

1. struggle with advocating for myself re food allergies, taught me about how to break long-standing habits (used last year)
2. moving twice (MI to TN then TN to CA), how i had to adjust to different environments, taught me a lot of resilience and how to love change, and prompted me to pursue a published research project on adolescent suicide and ZIP code change

In case a moral/ethical dilemma is okay

1. When volunteering with the unhoused population, there was a verbal altercation that broke out. Some of the neighbors were telling me to just let "them fight it out." But way too many people felt unsafe, so I ended up calling the cops. My decision ended up in someone getting kicked out of the program and he ended up on the streets again. Made me think a lot about what a "correct" decision is. I also advocated for him to be able to get housing at another facility.

I felt like the last one would fit "The admissions committee is interested in gaining more insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced that helped shape you as a person. Examples may include a moral or ethical dilemma, a situation of personal adversity, or a hurdle in your life that you worked hard to overcome. Please include how you got through the experience and what you learned about yourself as a result.".

But for a general adversity essay, which one would you guys recommend me to write about?

Hi there! Yesterday, I posted about a volunteer organization, HEART of Davis, and how we are looking for volunteers.

I would also love to have a website to showcase our work and better share it with the community. If someone has any experience in web dev and is willing to volunteer some time, please pm me!! :3

Could someone please look over my W/A? Also how many hours should we put for publications and posters?

Hi everyone! I'm reapplying to medical school this cycle after receiving 4 interview invites and 4 waitlists last cycle. My mentor from last cycle is unfortunately unable to mentor me this year, so I'm hoping to find someone who would be willing to guide me through the application process.

If you're interested in mentoring a reapplicant or know someone who might be a good fit, I'd greatly appreciate a DM. Thank you so much!

Title - how should I go about it? I was told to have 1 non-clinical experience to make the narrative more interesting. But I'm struggling to make my mom-clinical experience paragraph have an as compelling why physician argument to it.

The experience I'm talking about in my essay (teaching meditation in Spanish) was important as it was a stepping stone from my seed to my first clinical experience. How should I go about this?

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Last cycle Results: 4II -> 4 WL (Stanford, Einstein, UC Davis, UCSD

Why last cycle went the way it did: really bad PS (said by adcoms lol), and barely any non-clinical volunteering

About me:

• Residence: CA and ORM (Asian)
• sGPA/cGPA/MCAT: 3.99/3.985/518
• Major/minor: Human bio major + stats minor
• Shadowing: 110 ish hours (3 specialties)
• Clinical paid: 1k hours as an MA at a private IVF clinic (almost 3 years)
• Clinical volunteering:
  • quarter long internship at cardiac rehabilitation dept in hospital (50 hours)
  • health screening volunteer (100 hours, more projected)
    • We also connect people to social services here and it is a very diff population of people i have worked with in the past
    • I also supervise the students who are community health workers and mentor them so kinda a leadership position too!
• Non-clinical volunteering:
  • volunteering at my home city's senior kitchen, university food pantry, and community food pantry (400 hours)
  • teach meditation in Spanish (since freshman yr of HS, ~700 hours)
  • volunteer with unhoused population (~200 hours)
  • using NIH funding, I created an initiative with my lab to teach educationally under-served HS students about statistics. i helped them create a research project and mentored them through making a research poster (300 hours)
  • member of a community service non-profit geared towards supporting senior in my home city, i'm a part of community outreach and have been finding community partners to support us; we havent really launched yet, so im helping with pre-launch set up (100ish hours)
• Leadership:
  • Student Alumni Association Executive Committee Director (700 hours, mentorship organization, over 4 years)
  • learning assistant for physiology class (200 hours)
• Research: 1000+ hours, 2 pubs (1 more in review, 1 sent out soon), 4 posters (1 for a national conference)
  • Worked with a grad student on public health research focused on womens' health and adolescent suicide (1 publication) (~200 hours)
  • currently work in a heart failure lab at the med school, co-lead a project (800 ish hours)
    • working on the manuscript, first author (hoping to send it out later this week or next week!)
  • joined an imaging lab, 1 pub under review (100 ish hours)
• Awards: selective corporate scholarship for all 4 years of undergrad, got a graduating senior award for independent research
• Other/hobbies: I love art: classical indian dancer, flautist, origami (5000 ish hours lol)

What other schools should I add? TYSM! <3

https://preview.redd.it/65uek754yo3h1.png?width=2136&format=png&auto=webp&s=73d08be6b153f47ec86e6657ba79cd3e5242a7a2

Last cycle Results: 4II -> 4 WL (Stanford, Einstein, UC Davis, UCSD

Why last cycle went the way it did: really bad PS (said by adcoms lol), and barely any non-clinical volunteering

About me:

• Residence: CA and ORM (Asian)
• sGPA/cGPA/MCAT: 3.99/3.985/518
• Major/minor: Human bio major + stats minor
• Shadowing: 110 ish hours (3 specialties)
• Clinical paid: 1k hours as an MA at a private IVF clinic (almost 3 years)
• Clinical volunteering:
  • quarter long internship at cardiac rehabilitation dept in hospital (50 hours)
  • health screening volunteer (100 hours, more projected)
    • We also connect people to social services here and it is a very diff population of people i have worked with in the past
    • I also supervise the students who are community health workers and mentor them so kinda a leadership position too!
• Non-clinical volunteering:
  • volunteering at my home city's senior kitchen, university food pantry, and community food pantry (400 hours)
  • teach meditation in Spanish (since freshman yr of HS, ~700 hours)
  • volunteer with unhoused population (~200 hours)
  • using NIH funding, I created an initiative with my lab to teach educationally under-served HS students about statistics. i helped them create a research project and mentored them through making a research poster (300 hours)
  • member of a community service non-profit geared towards supporting senior in my home city, i'm a part of community outreach and have been finding community partners to support us; we havent really launched yet, so im helping with pre-launch set up (100ish hours)
• Leadership:
  • Student Alumni Association Executive Committee Director (700 hours, mentorship organization, over 4 years)
  • learning assistant for physiology class (200 hours)
• Research: 1000+ hours, 2 pubs (1 more in review, 1 sent out soon), 4 posters (1 for a national conference)
  • Worked with a grad student on public health research focused on womens' health and adolescent suicide (1 publication) (~200 hours)
  • currently work in a heart failure lab at the med school, co-lead a project (800 ish hours)
    • working on the manuscript, first author (hoping to send it out later this week or next week!)
  • joined an imaging lab, 1 pub under review (100 ish hours)
• Awards: selective corporate scholarship for all 4 years of undergrad, got a graduating senior award for independent research
• Other/hobbies: I love art: classical indian dancer, flautist, origami (5000 ish hours lol)

What other schools should I add? TYSM! <3

Hi! I’m a reapplicant and I got the chance to speak to an adcom about my last personal statement. I’m completely re-writing it. Could someone please read my new one?

Thank you so much!!

Just want to make sure i'm not taking this too late, thank you!

Hi! I'm hoping to apply to ~35 schools this cycle. I applied last cycle and was WL at 4 schools (Stanford, Einstein, UCSD, UC Davis). I got feedback and I think my PS held me back A LOT. In a meeting with an adcom, she said that none of the 4 screeners knew why I wanted to go into medicine. My PS for this cycle is much better (having a lot of people look it over too) and I also have more non-clinical volunteering (another weakness pointed out to me).

About me:

• Residence: CA and ORM (Asian)
• sGPA/cGPA/MCAT: 3.97/3.985/518
• Major/minor: Human bio major + stats minor
• Shadowing: 100 ish hours (2 specialties, working on getting a third one soon!)
• Clinical paid: 1k hours as an MA at a private IVF clinic (almost 3 years)
• Clinical volunteering:
  • quarter long internship at cardiac rehabilitation dept in hospital (50 hours)
  • health screening volunteer (100 hours, more projected)
    • We also connect people to social services here and it is a very diff population of people i have worked with in the past
    • I also supervise the students who are community health workers and mentor them so kinda a leadership position too!
• Non-clinical volunteering:
  • volunteering at my home city's senior kitchen, university food pantry, and community food pantry (400 hours)
  • teach meditation in Spanish (since freshman yr of HS, ~700 hours)
  • volunteer with unhoused population (~200 hours)
  • using NIH funding, I created an initiative with my lab to teach educationally under-served HS students about statistics. i helped them create a research project and mentored them through making a research poster (300 hours)
  • member of a community service non-profit geared towards supporting senior in my home city, i'm a part of community outreach and have been finding community partners to support us; we havent really launched yet, so im helping with pre-launch set up (100ish hours)
• Leadership:
  • Student Alumni Association Executive Committee Director (700 hours, mentorship organization, over 4 years)
  • learning assistant for physiology class (200 hours)
• Research: 1000+ hours, 2 pubs (1 more in review, 1 sent out soon), 4 posters (1 for a national conference)
  • Worked with a grad student on public health research focused on womens' health and adolescent suicide (1 publication) (~200 hours)
  • currently work in a heart failure lab at the med school, co-lead a project (800 ish hours)
    • working on the manuscript, first author (hoping to send it out later this week or next week!)
  • joined an imaging lab, 1 pub under review (100 ish hours)
• Awards: selective corporate scholarship for all 4 years of undergrad, got a graduating senior award for independent research
• Other/hobbies: I love art: classical indian dancer, flautist, origami (1000+ hours)

I applied to a TON of places last time (50ish). I def wanna be more conservative and strategic with where I apply this time. I will definitely apply to UCs, but where else do you guys recommend? TYSM!! <3

I used NIH grant money to create a program for educationally underserved high school students in which I taught them elementary statistics and mentored them in creating an independent research project. They went on to make a research poster which they presented at their school. Many students at that high school don't ever get to taking statistics. Many of them are also low SES, so the grant money went into giving them stipends through the program.

While I understand there was a teaching element to it, I just wanted to know if med schools would consider this service or non-clinical volunteering. ty!