Hey everyone! I'm currently a senior who is planning on applying to med school this summer. While I have pretty good grades and hopefully will have a pretty good MCAT score, my extracurriculars are lacking. I'd be very happy to get into a moderately competitive medical school (maybe like UMASS, Jefferson, BU, etc.), but will really go anywhere that accepts me. Because I don't have very many ECs and "demonstrated interest," I'm worried that I won't get in anywhere, so I was hoping you guys could give me some idea of what is appropriate for my stats.
Overall things:
- Senior at ivy league university, need to take a few extra courses next year to graduate in the winter (because I switched majors), after which I'll be working somewhere, maybe a grocery store or in research.
- 3.86 GPA (difficult courseload, was math major before biology)
- Bio major
- Got a 27 on the MCAT diagnostic not remembering much about any of the intro sciences, hoping for 8-10 above that after I study, so hopefully a 35+?
- Will have 3-4 solid recs. My science course ones won't be very strong because they all have 200+ people and I don't go to office hours. The strong recs are from places where I worked as a tutor, as a counselor, and as an intern.
ECs:
- Work as a paid peer tutor 6 hours a week. My boss from this will be writing a very strong rec.
- Played a sport and worked as an EMT freshman year, but quit after that.
- Recruitment chair of my fraternity (does this even matter for med schools at all?)
Summer jobs:
Summer after freshman year: Worked at a golf course on the maintenance crew (20 hours per week) and traveled.
Summer after sophomore year: Worked as a counselor/teacher at a program for at-risk urban youth (40 hours a week). The program head will write me a very strong rec.
Summer after junior year: Did patient-oriented research at a clinic for the homeless. Worked 30 hours a week and compiled an internal report which was later used to make things run more efficiently in the clinic. The doctor who supervised my project said he would write me a glowing rec.
My essays will tell a unique story and I think they'll be pretty strong.
I have a random withdraw on my transcript from switching majors, but hopefully that won't matter.
So yeah, anyone have any idea about what med schools might be appropriate for someone with these kind of stats? I'm mainly worried because I have no extracurricular activities outside of my tutoring and fraternity involvement, except in the summers. My only real encounter with medicine that is shown here is through the few months I worked as an EMT, the clinical research thing in the summer after junior year (which I spent probably about 160 hours at), and the countless hours I've spent in the hospital for broken bones and other sports-related injuries.
Let me know!
Thanks in advance.
Overall things:
- Senior at ivy league university, need to take a few extra courses next year to graduate in the winter (because I switched majors), after which I'll be working somewhere, maybe a grocery store or in research.
- 3.86 GPA (difficult courseload, was math major before biology)
- Bio major
- Got a 27 on the MCAT diagnostic not remembering much about any of the intro sciences, hoping for 8-10 above that after I study, so hopefully a 35+?
- Will have 3-4 solid recs. My science course ones won't be very strong because they all have 200+ people and I don't go to office hours. The strong recs are from places where I worked as a tutor, as a counselor, and as an intern.
ECs:
- Work as a paid peer tutor 6 hours a week. My boss from this will be writing a very strong rec.
- Played a sport and worked as an EMT freshman year, but quit after that.
- Recruitment chair of my fraternity (does this even matter for med schools at all?)
Summer jobs:
Summer after freshman year: Worked at a golf course on the maintenance crew (20 hours per week) and traveled.
Summer after sophomore year: Worked as a counselor/teacher at a program for at-risk urban youth (40 hours a week). The program head will write me a very strong rec.
Summer after junior year: Did patient-oriented research at a clinic for the homeless. Worked 30 hours a week and compiled an internal report which was later used to make things run more efficiently in the clinic. The doctor who supervised my project said he would write me a glowing rec.
My essays will tell a unique story and I think they'll be pretty strong.
I have a random withdraw on my transcript from switching majors, but hopefully that won't matter.
So yeah, anyone have any idea about what med schools might be appropriate for someone with these kind of stats? I'm mainly worried because I have no extracurricular activities outside of my tutoring and fraternity involvement, except in the summers. My only real encounter with medicine that is shown here is through the few months I worked as an EMT, the clinical research thing in the summer after junior year (which I spent probably about 160 hours at), and the countless hours I've spent in the hospital for broken bones and other sports-related injuries.
Let me know!
Thanks in advance.