-No leadership positions in school organizations. Only basic membership in ski club and the premed club
-No research experience
-2 weeks of volunteer work in Ecuador & Galapagos Islands where I stayed with a host family and helped them with work around their ranch
-1 season's worth of ski patrolling at my home mountain
-3 semester's worth and 1 summer's worth of volunteering at a hospital- 2 semesters in an ICU and 1 semester in the emergency department
-2 semester's worth of tutoring physics
I plan on shadowing in the upcoming summer as well as doing another volunteer program in a different Spanish speaking third world country. My reasoning behind not having leadership positions is because I feel like there are so many organizations that get ruined by students who just want to pad their resume's. I don't want to become officer of a club I won't care for at all. The one organization I care for (ski club) is being run terribly by a careless group of students who won't graduate until I do so unfortunately there's nothing I can do to change that. I want to make sure that everything I put down on my resume genuinely means something to me and so I don't want to blindly join organizations and gain leadership positions in them. I occasionally compete in random ski competitions for fun around the area (unfortunately none of which I ever place well in :laugh:). I also occasionally put together some fun little videos of my friends and I skiing. I actually won a video contest hosted by my local mountain a few years ago with one of my videos. Would med schools care at all to see things like this? Should I still incorporate that I occasionally participate in competitions around the area and won that video contest?
What worries me most is that I have no leadership positions to show for and that I have no research experience... with a 3.6 cgpa and 3.25 sgpa coming from a state school should I wait another year to seem like a more competitive applicant? I also have yet to take the MCAT (probably will take it over winter break).
-No research experience
-2 weeks of volunteer work in Ecuador & Galapagos Islands where I stayed with a host family and helped them with work around their ranch
-1 season's worth of ski patrolling at my home mountain
-3 semester's worth and 1 summer's worth of volunteering at a hospital- 2 semesters in an ICU and 1 semester in the emergency department
-2 semester's worth of tutoring physics
I plan on shadowing in the upcoming summer as well as doing another volunteer program in a different Spanish speaking third world country. My reasoning behind not having leadership positions is because I feel like there are so many organizations that get ruined by students who just want to pad their resume's. I don't want to become officer of a club I won't care for at all. The one organization I care for (ski club) is being run terribly by a careless group of students who won't graduate until I do so unfortunately there's nothing I can do to change that. I want to make sure that everything I put down on my resume genuinely means something to me and so I don't want to blindly join organizations and gain leadership positions in them. I occasionally compete in random ski competitions for fun around the area (unfortunately none of which I ever place well in :laugh:). I also occasionally put together some fun little videos of my friends and I skiing. I actually won a video contest hosted by my local mountain a few years ago with one of my videos. Would med schools care at all to see things like this? Should I still incorporate that I occasionally participate in competitions around the area and won that video contest?
What worries me most is that I have no leadership positions to show for and that I have no research experience... with a 3.6 cgpa and 3.25 sgpa coming from a state school should I wait another year to seem like a more competitive applicant? I also have yet to take the MCAT (probably will take it over winter break).