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Hi! I'm looking for some advice on how I should proceed with a variety of options I have for my senior year of college. I'll first provide some information about my hours in the various buckets and then mention the options I could go with (though if anyone has other ideas on what I could do, I'd be happy to hear those too).
Academics:
- I attend a nationally ranked research university
- current GPA is 4.0 on of a 4.0 scale
Clinical volunteering: work as a "unit assistant" for two nursing units. I talk with patients and try to help with their mental health by giving them someone to vent to, be distracted by, and just talk to. I also get them things to help them be more comfortable or happy, like art supplies or more mundane things like water. I do this 8 hours a week most weeks. I currently am at 115 hours and will get to about 150 by the end of my junior year this May.
Non-clinical volunteering: I will have done about 40 hours of tutoring lower income students in inner city Middle/High Schools by the end of this school year. I am intending on doing about 100-150 hours of non-clinical volunteering this summer, though I am not sure what to do that in (open to advice on this too!). I will also be taking the MCAT in the later part of this summer.
Clinical hours: None outside of volunteering.
Research: Worked for my sophomore year in a lab and am on a review paper pending publication. Worked for a summer as an intern at a clinical research lab and presented a poster for it/may be first author (possible second author) on the paper for it.
Extracurriculars: I am an editor on my student newspaper.
POTENTIAL OPTIONS
- do research for the purpose of obtaining latin honors (requires two semesters of usually wetlab research as an upperclassman). This would be largely for the purpose of indicating my class rank.
- graduate a semester early with a slightly heaver schedule first semester. Upon graduating, train to be an EMT, and get clinical hours instead of taking classes second semester (for the purposes of this, assume money is not a barrier). This would mean no latin honors, but would allow me to get my clinical hours up with more hands-on work.
- do not graduate early but take fewer classes each semester. Train to be an EMT first semester, work as an EMT second semester. No latin honors.
Academics:
- I attend a nationally ranked research university
- current GPA is 4.0 on of a 4.0 scale
Clinical volunteering: work as a "unit assistant" for two nursing units. I talk with patients and try to help with their mental health by giving them someone to vent to, be distracted by, and just talk to. I also get them things to help them be more comfortable or happy, like art supplies or more mundane things like water. I do this 8 hours a week most weeks. I currently am at 115 hours and will get to about 150 by the end of my junior year this May.
Non-clinical volunteering: I will have done about 40 hours of tutoring lower income students in inner city Middle/High Schools by the end of this school year. I am intending on doing about 100-150 hours of non-clinical volunteering this summer, though I am not sure what to do that in (open to advice on this too!). I will also be taking the MCAT in the later part of this summer.
Clinical hours: None outside of volunteering.
Research: Worked for my sophomore year in a lab and am on a review paper pending publication. Worked for a summer as an intern at a clinical research lab and presented a poster for it/may be first author (possible second author) on the paper for it.
Extracurriculars: I am an editor on my student newspaper.
POTENTIAL OPTIONS
- do research for the purpose of obtaining latin honors (requires two semesters of usually wetlab research as an upperclassman). This would be largely for the purpose of indicating my class rank.
- graduate a semester early with a slightly heaver schedule first semester. Upon graduating, train to be an EMT, and get clinical hours instead of taking classes second semester (for the purposes of this, assume money is not a barrier). This would mean no latin honors, but would allow me to get my clinical hours up with more hands-on work.
- do not graduate early but take fewer classes each semester. Train to be an EMT first semester, work as an EMT second semester. No latin honors.
