Can you still make it through the cycle w/ an acceptance despite being a cookie cutter?

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This is a topic that really peaks my curiosity. So we all know the cookie cutter activities (1 year clinical volunteering, 20 hours shadowing, 1 year community service, 1 year research, etc). I feel like, having been on SDN and reading many posts, it makes it seem like almost every applicant that gets an acceptance has something special about them.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is..... can you be a cookie cutter w/ decent stats and sincere personality and still get into medical school (assuming you applied early and applied broadly) or are those days gone?
 
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Well, there are cookie-cutter applications but that does not mean that they are accepted.

The people who are sharing with me their extracurriculars and who get into top schools are definitely not cookie-cutter. Yes it's a small number.

Lucca said:
This is by definition true. We wouldn't even have a conception of a "cookie cutter" applicant unless it was common for them to both exist and be accepted.
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TBH cookie cutter by definition means that it works BUT a lot of times people who get these "cookie cuuter" experiences with that mentality end up not actually getting the deep experience needed to effectively talk about their ECs/experiences in an interview.

just my .02 as someone who had somewhat superficially cookie cutter ECs but could talk about them for hours given the opportunity in an interview
 
kb1900 said:
TBH cookie cutter by definition means that it works BUT a lot of times people who get these "cookie cuuter" experiences with that mentality end up not actually getting the deep experience needed to effectively talk about their ECs/experiences in an interview.

just my .02 as someone who had somewhat superficially cookie cutter ECs but could talk about them for hours given the opportunity in an interview
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This. At a certain point, everyone has to have cookie cutter experiences. It's the things that make up a successful application. The ability to be thoughtful and introspective about your experiences is what matters.
 
Pusheen said:
This. At a certain point, everyone has to have cookie cutter experiences. It's the things that make up a successful application. The ability to be thoughtful and introspective about your experiences is what matters.
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in fact, during interviews at least, the questions that involve your ECs are never really about the EC itself but about what you really learned/gained/discovered about yourself from them.

e.g. i could talk about a newfound appreciation for the autonomy i have in the directions in which you take a research project when you are the primary intellectual contributor. and how that came from having my own research project in my lab rather than working for a post doc or phd/graduate student
 
Just get a hobby if you don't want to be bland. You know, like real people do...
 
On top of what everyone else has said, beyond just getting into med school, I'd wager you could live a pretty comfortable life as a cookie cutter.
 
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