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Hi everyone
After a couple waitlists I've been working on a plan for a second gap year and had a few questions about how to approach my next year reapplying. I feel comfortable with my application with regards to gpa/mcat, research, clinical experience and shadowing, LORs, PS, but one aspect I could have improved on was my volunteering experience, with about 50 hrs clinical volunteering and maybe 10 or so nonclinical from a service trip or two. I have recently been offered a position as a tutor with a charter school serving students from lower income families, which is essentially a volunteering position with a living stipend, so it's similar to City Year. I've been very involved in tutoring students while in high school and started volunteering to tutor students again while working as a scribe so this is what led me to consider such a position in the first place. So that leads me to my questions as to where to go from this point.
1. Would accepting this position for a year benefit me enough to help me get more interviews next year? All things being equal I feel pretty passionate about tutoring so if I have to take a gap year I think this is how I would like to spend it.
2. On reapplying, is there any need to modify my personal statement if I feel good about it? I've had a few people read it and after some minor corrections they said it was good. Also with some schools I would be reapplying to, can I reuse the supplementary for a school if I think it's good?
Any input is appreciated and thank you in advance for any responses
After a couple waitlists I've been working on a plan for a second gap year and had a few questions about how to approach my next year reapplying. I feel comfortable with my application with regards to gpa/mcat, research, clinical experience and shadowing, LORs, PS, but one aspect I could have improved on was my volunteering experience, with about 50 hrs clinical volunteering and maybe 10 or so nonclinical from a service trip or two. I have recently been offered a position as a tutor with a charter school serving students from lower income families, which is essentially a volunteering position with a living stipend, so it's similar to City Year. I've been very involved in tutoring students while in high school and started volunteering to tutor students again while working as a scribe so this is what led me to consider such a position in the first place. So that leads me to my questions as to where to go from this point.
1. Would accepting this position for a year benefit me enough to help me get more interviews next year? All things being equal I feel pretty passionate about tutoring so if I have to take a gap year I think this is how I would like to spend it.
2. On reapplying, is there any need to modify my personal statement if I feel good about it? I've had a few people read it and after some minor corrections they said it was good. Also with some schools I would be reapplying to, can I reuse the supplementary for a school if I think it's good?
Any input is appreciated and thank you in advance for any responses
