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Hi everyone,
I recently graduated, and I am planning on taking a gap year as a medical scribe while applying to med school. While graduating, something kind of irked me - I did not graduate with honors. At my school, to qualify for departmental honors, you had to apply, which I did not do. For latin honors (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude), 35% of the graduating class with the highest GPAs are automatically eligible. Based on non-GPA factors and faculty recommendations, the top 25% of the class get selected for honors.
I didn't receive any honors, and I felt pretty uncertain about it. I have a 3.815 GPA, 517 MCAT score, plenty of good extracurriculars (including research & volunteer), and I am expecting most of my med school recommendations to be good. That said, I don't know if I will seem as competitive as some of my friends who got Summa or Magna cum laude on their degrees.
Do you think this could make me seem less competitive, or look bad if I don't have honors?
I recently graduated, and I am planning on taking a gap year as a medical scribe while applying to med school. While graduating, something kind of irked me - I did not graduate with honors. At my school, to qualify for departmental honors, you had to apply, which I did not do. For latin honors (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude), 35% of the graduating class with the highest GPAs are automatically eligible. Based on non-GPA factors and faculty recommendations, the top 25% of the class get selected for honors.
I didn't receive any honors, and I felt pretty uncertain about it. I have a 3.815 GPA, 517 MCAT score, plenty of good extracurriculars (including research & volunteer), and I am expecting most of my med school recommendations to be good. That said, I don't know if I will seem as competitive as some of my friends who got Summa or Magna cum laude on their degrees.
Do you think this could make me seem less competitive, or look bad if I don't have honors?
