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I know I have thousands in research and stuff, but yea I have been graduated for a year and a half and have been working a full time research job... no worries at all. Realistically, I think if they see that you have a mixture of interests, including helping people/being with patients, somewhere on your app, and so long as you have a decent enough gpa and MCAT, you will be fine.@Awesome Sauceome + @serenade : I should have been more specific. I wasn't talking so much GPA/MCAT score wise. I was mostly referring to the # of volunteer hours and research hours some people are listing. More often than not people are listing hours in the thousands for service, research, and clinical hours. I could see maybe in the thousands in ONE of those catagories but in several for the same applicant? That's unreal. Unless most of these people are non-trad's who've been out of school for years and have had the time to accumulate these hours over the course of many years. For anyone who is a undergrad or a recent graduate, I dont see how it is remotely possible to compete with those stats.
Thanks for putting your info in there (if you did), definitely keep spreading the word on that thread's existence. I want to be able to get as many stats as I possibly can so that we can help future applicants see where they fall in line.