Medical Fulbright Research Helps my Chances?

[MusicDOc124]

Ive searched through all of SDN and I haven’t seen any proper response. But @previous fulbright research scholars. does Fulbright help you get into a good medical school.

Im asking I have midteir stats. 511 mcat and 3.8 cgpa/3.71 sgpa

I’d like to know what other schools fulbright research scholars got into and how competitive/unique is it. Are there hundreds of them applying in one cycle?

Since there hasn't been a reply yet, I'll just give you an anecdote. Keep in mind 2 things: 1- the person I'm referring to likely would have gotten into med school right out of college even if the person did not do fulbright (i.e. great personality, TONs of ECs for a LONG time, high GPA, high MCAT, research experience, etc), and 2 - the person did not necessarily want to go to a "big name" school per se as in an Ivy, but rather wanted to be close to home.

They applied, had lots of interviews and acceptances across the board, and ultimately went to her top choice which was local to family and hometown. They are now an ENT resident (which is a competitive field to get into) and what I believe is also at their top choice residency program.

This isn't meant to say fulbright helped in anyway or not, but it certainly WILL NOT hurt you, and most people who are able to do fulbright also don't necessarily NEED fulbright to help them.

This person loved the experience they had, though, so you know.

Good luck!

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[lord999]

The likelihood is higher just because of the Fulbright's selectivity bias, although I should ask for clarity's sake whether you were a "Student" or "Scholar"? There is a specific distinction, and "Scholar" is less (or non) competitive depending on the field and national selection. For example, for my field in pharmacology in the last couple of years, there were exactly two US scholars, and thus were automatic placements due to the circumstances of their application (and one came from my alma mater). With reasonable stats like yours, you should be able to get in.

 

[Catalystik]

Receiving a Fulbright scholarship to do research abroad is an impressive award, and more prestigious than the Fulbright ETA to teach English internationally. Top research-oriented schools seem to like them. So do schools aiming to train academic physicians. It's certainly a recognition that would add luster to your CV for the rest of your professional career. How much of a difference it would make in the application process for someone with your stats range I can't say, but it would certainly be a cherry on top of the sundae if you had the rest of the expected package.

 

[MusicDOc124]

I'm a student! Just graduated in 2018 and went directly.

You're in a very good spot. It will only help you with where you are academically.