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I want to make sure I'm reading this right. AMCAS asks for my household income in the place where I spent the majority of my childhood (before age 18). When I lived in place 1 (ages 2-10), we made 50-75k. When I lived in place 2 (ages 10-14), we made 75k-100k. I now live in place 3 (ages 14-21) and we make 150k+.
I want to make sure I should list the income from place 1, since it's where I spent the majority of my time before age 18. I just think it might be a little fishy if I list 50-75k, since we now make 3 times that amount.
the underserved box is mainly meant to ID applicants who might be more inclined that other applicants to go back to a community like the one they grew up in and help relieve the shortage. If you are applying to US med school, you aren't likely to go back to a rural foreign country. so whether you check the box or not it isn't likely to change how someone sees your application. Furthermore, as mentioned previously, if your family and friends were very well off, it is unlikely that you suffered due to these shortages given that you could afford to travel to obtain care. My school doesn't have a mission of training people for underserved areas so we don't pay much attention to that box.@LizzyM I have a related question about the childhood section. If I come from a somewhat well-off family (high income) but grew up in a rural, underserved area of a foreign country, would adcoms be suspicious if I check off the "underserved" box if I am really telling the truth, or does it not matter that much?