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"Cookie cutter" ECs:
100 hours of clinical and nonclinical volunteering, 20 hours of shadowing. Mediocre to subpar, won't sink your application on its own. The bare minimum.
"Good" ECs, one step above "Cookie cutter" ECs:
100 hours of clinical and nonclinical volunteering, 20 hours of shadowing. Mediocre to subpar, won't sink your application on its own. The bare minimum.
"Good" ECs, one step above "Cookie cutter" ECs:
- 400+ hours of volunteering, with no less than 100 hours in either the clinical or nonclinical category.
- 50+ hours of shadowing.
- 400+ hours of research, maybe one poster presentation.
- 1,000+ hours of volunteering, maybe with leadership in said volunteering organization
- Athletics, though not Division I or pro
- 1,000+ hours of research with poster presentations or pubs in small journals as other than first author
- Founder of successful nonprofit or small business.
- Division I athlete
- Peace Corps
- Teach for America
- First-author publication, or any author in Nature, Science, or Cell.
- Military service.
- Professional athlete.
- Refugee.
- First-author publication in Nature, Science, or Cell.
- Founded a large, impactful (regional or national) nonprofit or business.
- Any other world-class achievement: concert pianist, Pulitzer Prize winner, Olympic medalist, full tenured professor at elite university.
- Medal of Honor.
- Nobel Peace Prize.
- State governor.
- World-renowned athlete - think Michael Jordan or Michael Phelps.