Does what I do after sending in the application affect my chances for admission?

[DZT]

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Hey y'all, I'm graduating pretty soon and sending out my applications. I found a great internship involving HIV/AIDS patients, but they only pay for rent and nothing else. Its a big jump, but do you think something liek this matters in terms of helping my chances to med school even though it is post app. Should I periodically send letters out to med schools updating my resume?

 

[moo]

Well, what you do certainly can't hurt. Will it help? Probably not initially, but if you get waitlisted then you can send an update of activities including this new activity, and that may help.

 

[vyc]

do you mean you're applying for 2002 entrance?

 

[Doctora Foxy]

My greatest EC was the summer after my junior year. I held off on applying, completed my internship, rewrote my personal statement about it, got lazy, got depressed after Sept. 11, and then finally submitted AMCAS in October. It all thankfully worked out ok. I volunteered in a migrant farmworker clinic and I knew that it would positively affect my application if I waited a little to send it in. My dean advised me to do this.

So, an option would be to submit late, but don't do that, b/c the early bird DOES catch the worm :wink: . You will have the option to write about it in many secondaries, and you can work it into the conversation during interviews. This sounds like a great experience that shouldn't be passed up.

Best of luck!