Hey Guys, I posted a similar thread about my chances but wanted to get an opinion on something. I was working on my activities section yesterday and came up with a dilemma. When I was typing for my AMCAS and ACOMAS EC section I came to a stumble when trying to write about my hospital volunteer experience. Although I had 60 hours over there for 1 semester, I basically did nothing but clean beds and deliver magazine to patients. Thus I thought to myself that I would have a hard time trying to sell my experience there if I was ever asked about it. My question is should I still include it and if I don't would it severely weaken my list of EC? I feel like my EC list is very very weak but I still plan on applying this cycle with the goal of getting into ANY med school MD or DO. My cGPA is around a 3.94 with a sGPA of 4.0 while I have a very balanced 32 on my MCAT (no scores below a 10)
I have:
- around 40 hrs of non medical community service
- 100+ volunteer hours at a hospice (I volunteered at this place for a little over a year now and will still continue until I hopefully get an acceptance)
- 1 semester of being a TA for my psych class and 1 semester of being a tutor
- Started research last summer and am still continuing
- Shadowed an oncologist and a PM&R doc. Total hrs is around 30 ish (Planning on shadowing more maybe a PCP?)
- I'm also a part of PBK and just found out recently that I'm graduating salutatorian of my class
- couple of long term hobbies
I know the list of EC isn't impressive but do you think i'll be OK applying with them? Thanks!
I have:
- around 40 hrs of non medical community service
- 100+ volunteer hours at a hospice (I volunteered at this place for a little over a year now and will still continue until I hopefully get an acceptance)
- 1 semester of being a TA for my psych class and 1 semester of being a tutor
- Started research last summer and am still continuing
- Shadowed an oncologist and a PM&R doc. Total hrs is around 30 ish (Planning on shadowing more maybe a PCP?)
- I'm also a part of PBK and just found out recently that I'm graduating salutatorian of my class
- couple of long term hobbies
I know the list of EC isn't impressive but do you think i'll be OK applying with them? Thanks!