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ORM or URM ?
lovepickles
Full Member
I finally got a secondary last night!!!
IS, 4.0, 515, ORM
IS, 4.0, 515, ORM
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Secondary received! Verified early august too!
wpneuro
Full Member
Could you post the prompts by any chance?
Yes! Pulling this from a Reddit post, which is accurate.
- What personal accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
- Please describe to the Admissions Committee a challenge or disappointment you have overcome and what you learned about yourself from that experience. (1500 characters)
- This essay is only for applicants that have already received their baccalaureate degree. Please clarify for the Admissions Committee your activities (school, work, and/or volunteer, travel, etc.) since receiving your undergraduate degree. You may list them in chronological order or you may incorporate them into an essay, stating why you chose particular activities. If you have just received or will receive your undergraduate degree this year, please discuss your plans for current year. (1500 characters)
- What research accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
- Please describe to the Admissions Committee a research challenge you have overcome and what you learned from that experience. (1500 characters)
- What does it mean, to you, to be an MD/PhD? (1500 characters)
premedddd999
Full Member
Same. The clinic I volunteered in is a neighborhood with 90% latino population and almost all our patients were latino, so I feel like it should count. I think I'm going to include it.
hopper98
Full Member
Have you participated in service to the Latino/Latinx/Latine community for at least one year?
Do you think this should only be a "yes" if you worked with this population in college? I came from an area that had a large Hispanic population, so I volunteered a lot to support them in high school. But then I moved away for college to a city that has another group predominantly present.
Do you think this should only be a "yes" if you worked with this population in college? I came from an area that had a large Hispanic population, so I volunteered a lot to support them in high school. But then I moved away for college to a city that has another group predominantly present.
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deleted1064759
I would still list it if it's the only service to the Hispanic community you have. It's still better than nothing.
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deleted1054719
Secondary receiveed 3.8x, 519, ORM, OOS, submitted primary to them about a week ago
benignradical
Full Member
Should we be worried if we didn't receive a secondary?
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Probably depends on when you were verified. Although I feel that it’s early enough where no one should be particularly worried.
benignradical
Full Member
Verified 7/25, but yeah I'll wait a little before going nuts
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deleted1053887
I've been verified 6/9, IS, 3.8/521, and still no secondary, and it's definitely feeling a little nutty up in here. Please, Irvine, I live so close to you! Why u no like me :/
Worried about the same thing. I think I might go with not putting anything because I don't want it to look like I'm making too much of a leap. Hopefully it won't be held against us. I did notice that they changed it to latinx population this year vs underserved from last year according to 2019-2020 thread.
I have literally the exact same stats (IS) and also waiting. I sent in my app 7/14.
For reference, 3.9/513, IS, verified 6/20....no secondary yet. Bettin' on one tonight. 
Secondary received 8/13, verified 6/21 or so, MCAT 507 cGPA 3.4, URM, IS
YoloSwagCats
Full Member
Secondary received 8/17, verified 7/30, OOS
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Secondary received, IS
Secondary received today, IS
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deleted1062149
Too far-fetched for sure. Scribing isn't service considering you got paid. Plus, unless what you did was specifically oriented towards helping Latinos, not just based on area demographics, wouldn't consider it service for the community.
benignradical
Full Member
You specify that the course is quarter on the secondary, so I'd say leave it in quarter units. Adcoms are smart enough to realize what type of units you're putting down.
benignradical
Full Member
For the Activities section, are people putting down only their most important/impressive (instructions mention that) or all their AMCAS activities?
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For this question:
Have you participated in service to the Latino/Latinx/Latine community for at least one year?
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I volunteered as a college application mentor at a nonprofit org for first-generation low-income students. The org wasn't only for the latino community but due to the location MOST of the students we served were latino, and I personally worked 1 on 1 with only latino students the 2 years I participated. Could I say yes for this question?
Have you participated in service to the Latino/Latinx/Latine community for at least one year?
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I volunteered as a college application mentor at a nonprofit org for first-generation low-income students. The org wasn't only for the latino community but due to the location MOST of the students we served were latino, and I personally worked 1 on 1 with only latino students the 2 years I participated. Could I say yes for this question?
frenchnavybrat
New Member
Does anyone know if a pre-medical fraternity or sorority should go in the school activities section or the community activities section?? I did a lot of community service with both but they are also a school "club" in a way. Thoughts?
YoloSwagCats
Full Member
I personally would put this in the school activities section, since it was a student organization.
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deleted1040408
Apologies if this has been asked before, but say you have an activity that works in two different sections (i.e. clinical research that fits into both research and clinical), have y'all been putting it in both or just choosing one?
AnythingButCARS
Full Member
I have the same question, I cofounded a non-profit to target educational disparities for underserved students in STEM. Due to its location, we have primarily dealt with schools in latino communities, but it isn't latino specific. Wondering if I should put this. Have you made a decision?
I don't know if this is correct but I put everything except awards/posters and also included the 2 new activities I've started since I submitted my primary
yeah thats what i did. all my main research/volunteering/employment activities without the fluff. though i did add 1 entry for all my poster presentations since i have a few
How do you guys suggest doing the "hours per week" for something like shadowing? My shadowing was pretty spread out across several years, with several month long gaps between each specialty i shadowed.
I had a few activities like that. Basically, with all my hours, I just wanted to made sure it lined up with AMCAS hours. So I just took the hours and divided by weeks
Got it - thanks!
Can I ask you another question, or anyone else if they had something like this? It asks for employment activities, but my research and scribing were both paid jobs and I had already listed them under their appropriate category (research/clinical). I shouldnt list them again under employment history, right?
I wouldn't think so. If my stuff overlapped, I just put it where I felt it most appropriate. I tried to space stuff out so I could put at elast one thing in each category.
wpneuro
Full Member
Hmm possible oops but I listed them again under employment history I think they should be able to tell, if they're looking at the list as a whole, that they're the same activity? They do fall under both categories, after all... (fingers crossed haha)
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Did it show up normal in the preview? I’ve never really paid consideration to the actual size of the image. As long as it uploads with no errors and looks normally, I doubt there is any real issues.
Yeah it looked normal on the preview. I am just paranoid because i used the same picture for other schools as well. Thank you for your response!
Hi sorry for the late response, for some reason I did not get a notification. But I ended up putting YES. The question is so vague/general that I think it should be fine to say that it counts.
Did you ever get an answer to this question? I'm in the same boat.
Help. Im totally stuck on this personal accomplishment question. A personal accomplishment Im most proud of was already talked about in my personal statement and my activities, so I feel weird repeating it again, but I also feel like I don't really have much else that even comes close to that one. Would it be a bad idea to talk about it again?
