Being Interesting

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Find what is interesting to you and put your strong effort into it and that genuine interest and commitment will make you interesting. I am not a supporter of doing things just "because they look good" to adcoms personally, I would much rather spend my time doing something I really enjoyed and helping people in a way that I find interesting and fulfilling and then hopefully the adcoms will see your passion and commitment from that activity and the way you talk about it.

 

[Goro]

Interesting? Yes. Unique? Well, uncommon. Admirable? Definitely!
I volunteer for a sexual violence advocacy organization

Interesting? Um, no. Unique? Kinda. Admirable? Definitely! But have you actually done this???
and an organization that sends college students out to tutor inner city kids.

Would you consider this interesting or unique?

I like veterans, Habitat for Humanity, Peace Corps, founders of successful charities or foundations, TFA, Americorps volunteers, non-trad students, artists, film-makers, dancers, teachers, counselors at camps for sick children, tutors for poor children, foster parent, Big Brothers/Sisters, suicide hotline counselors, and volunteers at nursing homes and hospice. Keep in mind that just me, and my colleague "HH" next door no doubt has completely different interests.
Other than sports, what is something that would be considered interesting to an Adcom?

 

[TexasSurgeon]

I was reading this post on the White Coat Investor about medical school admissions (http://whitecoatinvestor.com/how-to-get-into-medical-school/). He mentions doing something interesting and playing up what makes you unique. Quite a few people in the comments mentioned things like playing sports while maintaining a high GPA, and things like that. The sports ship has sailed in my case(cripple).

I was thinking about this, and wanted to get the opinion of my fellow SDN'ers.

In addition to the obligatory hospital volunteering and physician shadowing, I volunteer for a sexual violence advocacy organization and an organization that sends college students out to tutor inner city kids.

Would you consider this interesting or unique?

Other than sports, what is something that would be considered interesting to an Adcom?

Thank you.

Developing interestingness can only happen after you invest a lot of time into something so I suggest you stay in something that sounds uninteresting and then move your way up by becoming president or something. Then you be ballin'