Am I delusional?

[Ontology]

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Hey guys, why is everyone talking about this new MCAT?

 

[Conflagration]

It certainly shows some drive and ingenuity. Anything past that isn't guaranteed(for the reason stated above, and that there's almost too much stuff on this list, but that could be me...).

Do you have the grades to back yourself up? If not, you could come across as scattered or not completely committed to medicine.

 

[Ontology]

Yeah, I don't think the grades will be an issue, i'm just a bit worried about the ECs. So, pretty much i'm screwed because people have all types of biases against my ECs. That's just great. I mean I worked really hard on these am I outta luck?

 

[Gigantron]

If an individual adcom has a bias against churches (as I do)

I guess the OP should be glad that someone like you isn't making those decisions re: his application. 🙄

I honestly wouldn't care if the OP's church supported ritual sacrifices to goats. So long as it doesn't imply that such religious activity would hinder his performance in a collegial environment, it seems quite juvenile to let one's "personal" beliefs jeopardize the application of another simply because their beliefs don't agree with your own.

If you haven't noticed, that is how the world works. Personalities and beliefs always clash with one another. However, I'd be hard pressed to believe that an individual adcom (who happens to be atheist, let's say) would simply disregard the application of a Christian simply because they were Christian. Whatever problems that particular adcom has with the church is with the church, not the applicant. We have laws that protect against such pathetic biases (i.e. admissions not being discriminated based on race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, etc.).

If anything, the OP doing youth group could make for an interesting interview conversation.

then you might decrease your chances. If an individual adcom has a bias against the commercial tutoring industry (as I do), then doing that could decrease your chances.

The OP's tutoring is something with which he managed to build by himself. It's one thing to say that the OP tutors. But it's not just tutoring. He built his business from the ground up. That demonstrates good business sense, leadership, a desire to help others (re: tutoring), and other qualities that help the applicant stand out from others. The OP's ability to run a business would most certainly get the attention of adcoms. Why should it be seen as a negative?

What if an individual adcom does not like sports or athletes?

...lolwut?

 

[Conflagration]

Yeah, I don't think the grades will be an issue, i'm just a bit worried about the ECs. So, pretty much i'm screwed because people have all types of biases against my ECs. That's just great. I mean I worked really hard on these am I outta luck?

I wouldn't say out of luck. If you've got the grades, you've got a solid application.

This is for entry into undergrad, right? If it's for medical school, I can't really help you.

I got into Campbell's Pre-Pharmacy undergraduate program and I only had a club on there, but I had the grades to give my application a spine. Many ECs aren't a bad thing, and sports are almost never looked down upon. You just have to prove that you're not letting all of this get in the way of your ability to do the classwork.

 

[Ontology]

Yeah, it's for undergrad. My GPA is 3.9+ and my ACT is 34, so I'm just mainly worried about the ECs. Would these be considered strong or average or weak ECs? Also, do colleges require verification for this stuff because then wouldn't people just lie about random stuff?

 

[Gigantron]

Yeah, it's for undergrad. My GPA is 3.9+ and my ACT is 34, so I'm just mainly worried about the ECs. Would these be considered strong or average or weak ECs? Also, do colleges require verification for this stuff because then wouldn't people just lie about random stuff?

I would imagine that the proof of you doing your EC's would be shown from LOR's or from interviews when you're being asked about them. I've heard of applicants freezing when being asked about their supposedly "amazing" EC which they had no part of.

 

[Gigantron]

It is very plausible that some adcoms would have the same reactions that you (Gigantron) have, and that some don't.

A regular poster here who has been an adcom has posted that some adcoms think athletics look good and some don't.

A law against application biases has no teeth, because applicants are not told why they were rejected.

There also is not a law against religious biases in admissions. There are many colleges where you have state that you believe some religion or some version of it or else you can't get in. There are universities where you cannot work there as a teacher unless you sign something about your religious beliefs.

A person might not be aware of his or her biases.

An adcom could be from a competing church, or competing religion.

A church could be one that does not believe evolution. Some (not all) adcoms might see that as unscientific. Or that believes in a young earth.

A church listed could be one that promotes prayer and exorcisms as a medical treatment, or as medically helpful, or as not a waste of time for medical concerns. Or, it could be a church which opposes some treatments that are accepted in the medical profession.

The gambling nature of many ECs goes in both directions. There could also be some (not all) adcoms who love all of the ECs in that list.

OP isn't talking about medical school admissions.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Take a deep breath, step away from your computer, and go have some fun. Whether you have 8 or 12 or 15 ECs will not make or break your admittance to college. Go enjoy being a kid, as you will get in somewhere...and that is really all that matters.

As an aside, whether or not a person is an athlete really doesn't matter unless s/he is being recruited by a program at the university. A borderline academic candidate will almost always get in if they are being heavily recruited by a team at the university. I have yet to hear of a student who was rejected because s/he was an athlete. With that being said, there may be some faculty who are less flexible with athletes in college, but that is a discussion for another day.

 

[MedicalBeast]

enjoy your life while you still have time

 

[Ontology]

Lol, I am enjoying my life. I enjoy it by doing my activities they are fun for me. It's not like im doing them for no reason or strictly for college. I just wanted to see how good i really was compared to those top applicants.