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Or a unique activity that you knew someone else did?

At a research conference I just went to, I met a med student who told me he interviews applicants and one of them was an Olympic swimmer! He also mentioned another who was a flight instructor😮

I thought those were so cool so now I’m curious to what yall have done or seen cause I’m boring lmfao

Edit: Also it definitely does not have to be that crazy like these examples

Edit2: Yall are so cool wtf I gotta step up my game

Was wondering if I could put down two years of owning a clan in clash of clans as leadership hours?Thought it might help me stand out to ADCOMS. If anyone has listed similar experiences and gotten positive feedback, feel free to share.

If I hear this one more time imma lose it🙃

My application just got verified and I received a bunch of secondaries. Idk if they just want everyone's money, or if they're really considering your application... just don't want to get my hopes up too high...

515/3.97 checking in here with just one ii in texas so far. i (maybe stupidly) decided to really really work on my secondary writing before i turned them in and wound up turning most in early july when my app was verified in early june. i was talking to someone earlier and he said "oh most schools know that people who turn in the secondary 1-2 days after receiving it really wanna go there and they're most likely to get interview slots". i understand how this is true, but is early july really that late? i truly do think my ECs are solid and i've been complimented on my writing by most of the people who have read my app.

I think I have a competitive enough application where MD isn't out of the picture, but I'm at a point in secondaries right now where there is no way in hell I'm doing this again next year. I have a 514 MCAT, but not the best GPA, so I applied broadly and DO as well. The issue is that getting my 514 and having immigrant parents means everyone that lives within a 10 mile radius from us knows my score.

My parents also decided to do their own research (aka ask around) and basically are telling me that I shouldn't go to a DO school I should aim for MD. I know its all just a stupid stigma, but nobody seems to understand that. My family has even asked me if I would be open to going to a Caribbean school and possibly transferring because "they heard someone did that."

Obviously I take everything others say with a grain of salt because this is my future at the end of the day, but it would help if they'd atleast understand.

First it's completing your Bachelor's degree taking rigorous science courses while maintaining impressive extracurricular activities. Research, clinical, volunteer.

Then it's the MCAT, which takes several months of preparation and an agonizing month of waiting for your score, which they could just immediately release to you.

Then it's these useless money-grabs, such as CASPER and PREview.

Then you write your primary application for months, perfecting it and revising over and over again.

Then it's writing 200 secondaries, which is not humanly possible but what is expected in this process.

Then every minute detail of the past few years of your existence will be scrutinized by an ADCOM member, who is morally superior compared to you. If they notice even one error, they'll just throw out your application because there's a thousand other people who are better.

After all this, you just hope for the small chance of even getting a single interview for months and months.

Hi, as the title states, I am considering switching into a medical track from an Electrical Engineering major. I would have to take general biology and chemistry as well as organic chemistry within the next two years. I'm considering this switch as I think a medical track would be a much more fulfilling career than the options I'm provided within Electrical Engineering. It's a little late in my college career, so I'm anxious as to whether or not this is a good decision for me and I would appreciate any and all advice on the matter as well as the process of actually getting into medical school.

Thank you!

i just got spammed by 10 different recruiters and they keep telling me i have a great mcat score to lure me in but nope I don’t wanna be stuck in some random country for a million years. plus don’t think my conscience could handle that. goodnight.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m very happy, I was very happy when I got accepted. But idk if it’s the chronic overachiever in me but I’m just like “ok cool I did what I was supposed to do. What’s next.”

It just feels like I can never be a winner. Just not a failure.

This isn’t meant to upset anyone who hasn’t got the A yet, it’s just more of an internal reflection I wish I knew how to fix.

Would it just be a donation?

2/3 of the way there just hanging on!

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?

I just had my first interview! I'm kind of left with this weird feeling because my guy literally came in with a piece of paper that had a bunch of questions on it and proceeded to just start asking me questions from it. He would even give me his thoughts on the questions, being like "this is kinda dumb". He was also just taking notes the whole time. I feel like I answered them well, but I also got no feedback from him whatsoever. After I answered, he would just move onto the next or very few times ask followups about what I said (mostly research). Is this a bad sign? I just don't know how i could have made that more conversational than what it was. Also maybe how i can do better in the future?

Hi guys, so I am applying this cycle and had a question about non-clinical volunteering.

Basically I do volunteering at a street med organization where we help homeless people. We do both clinical and non-clinical stuff (like giving out food, passing out free clothes, providing essentials).

But I made the mistake of lumping it into one activity on AMCAS and labeled it as clinical volunteering.

Will I get screened? I also have a club I founded that is focused on underserved but I labeled that as leadership.

Will I get heavily screened at service schools like Loyola? I truly did do a lot of non clinical just could not label it.

Please let me know.

I just got another 4 secondary applications and I already had 8 before then. I didn’t start writing any of them because I’m too scared I’m gonna screw up and ruin my app 😭 and I also had medical problems that landed me in the ER yesterday. please send help man I need someone to give me a wake up call