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[KnightDoc]

You honestly checked all the boxes and, assuming a good MCAT score, are good to go. You don't even need the gap year, unless you just want a break before starting med school.

 

[LunaOri]

Looks good! Just make sure that some of your volunteering is with an underserved population, if possible.

 

[JimKimSlim]

More non-clinical volunteering and shadowing if you have nothing better to do. Right now, your focus should be crushing the MCAT.

 

[proudofmykids]

I’d shift some of your upcoming Clinical volunteering to Non-clinical volunteering to round it out. Otherwise, all your current EC hours are totally acceptable.
If possible, I suggest plan on taking the MCat no later than mid June 2022 to give yourself the capability to apply next cycle and skip the gap year. With only one year gap year you are still considered a traditional student by most schools anyway.

 

[proudofmykids]

Also, based on your post, and assuming my math is right, you already have 1300 total hours of ECs plus 1000 hours of work, all before your sophomore summer; so less than two years. If you factor out presumably 400hrs from last summer, that still 1900 total hours in about 60-70 weeks (about 30hrs/week of ECs on top of full college load). I’m not sure about what others think, but it would make me want to question each claimed EC with a lot of scrutiny to validate your claims.

 

[proudofmykids]

I genuinely do 30 - 40 hours of EC's on top of college load, I guess I'm just very efficient and have good time management skills. I have everything documented (pay slips, volunteer signups with my volunteer coordinator) plus during the summer I usually do full time research + volunteering 10 - 20 hours. So long as I can document this, will this be a problem?

It won’t be a problem. I’ll let adcoms weigh in whether you might want to proactively include some mention in an essay acknowledging your immersion in and extensive EC hours in anticipation of med school.

 

[gyngyn]

It won’t be a problem. I’ll let adcoms weigh in whether you might want to proactively include some mention in an essay acknowledging your immersion in and extensive EC hours in anticipation of med school.

Doing this would not have the desired effect.

 

[candbgirl]

Can you tell us what your nonclinical hours are and who they focus on and benefit. You really need more nonclinical but it’s important that they are focusing on working with the unserved/underserved in your community. You have so many clinical hours you can easily cut back and pick up nonclinical volunteering. Are all of those clinical hours face to face with patients (sick and injured) and not subjects of clinical research? I agree with @proudofmykids i don’t know how you’ve amassed so many hours in so many areas in 2 years and still have a very good GPA. I thought I had good time management.

 

[gyngyn]

Can you explain what you mean by that?

Explaining that you racked up this enormous amount of EC time in anticipation of medical school declares you as a box checker with no intrinsic interest in the activities. Even if this were true, it would show poor judgement to include it.

 

[proudofmykids]

Explaining that you racked up this enormous amount of EC time in anticipation of medical school declares you as a box checker with no intrinsic interest in the activities. Even if this were true, it would show poor judgement to include it.

Do do you think they should address the enormous amount of EC time within their application? (the time portion, not the activities themselves which I assume are discussed.)

 

[gyngyn]

Do do you think they should address the enormous amount of EC time within their application? (the time portion, not the activities themselves which I assume are discussed.)

No.

 

[proudofmykids]

Do do you think they should address the enormous amount of EC time within their application? (the time portion, not the activities themselves which I assume are discussed.)

Will there be skepticism by adcoms?

 

[proudofmykids]

No.

Do do you think they should address the enormous amount of EC time within their application? (the time portion, not the activities themselves which I assume are discussed.)

No.

Will there be skepticism by adcoms?