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[ILikeWater]

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[Goro]

Getting about 10 more hours of shadowing, and 100 hours plus of service to others less fortunate than yourself. Your service hours that aren't on clinical appear to be on campus and club-related and what you need to do is be around people who don't look like you, and get out of your comfort zone and off campus

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you for the input. Now, one final question: I cannot begin to create a school list because I do not know my MCAT score. However, do you think these activities, with the correct writing of course, are competitive for most schools?

Mission fit matters. Figure out what schools your want to attend and the MCAT range you need. Build your reaches, targets, and baseline.

 

[AJS59]

As for the mission fit, I am always curious about how that exactly works. It feels as though they are all splitting hairs in their mission statements and it comes out to either "we're a research school" or "we're a service school" and I have an application that doesn't lean too hard in any direction hours-wise.

It's not entirely a binary choice between research and service. Some schools specialize in rural healthcare, other schools in care to certain communities (Spanish Speakers, LGBTQ+, etc.), or others focus on different areas such as public health, political/business connections, etc. Look into more than just the mission statement

 

[Goro]

I agree with my learned colleagues. BTW: Service to others is always good.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

As for the mission fit, I am always curious about how that exactly works. It feels as though they are all splitting hairs in their mission statements and it comes out to either "we're a research school" or "we're a service school" and I have an application that doesn't lean too hard in any direction hours-wise.

Concurring, it's a spectrum (and not linear, but maybe planar). Read

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