Getting into Top Tier Med Schools

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You're looking for a formula. Bad news: there isn't one.

Unless you find something truly exceptional, your stuck with what the rest of us do:
Shadowing
Volunteering
Research
etc.
 
This:

Applicant Profile, #99999:
Age: 17
Gender: o.o
Ethnicity: All of them, therefore URM
Home State: Excited

Undergraduate Institution: Harfordale University
Area of Study:Triple Major - Biology, English, Biomedical Engineering

Application Year: 2009
MCAT Score: PS 16, VR 15, BS 15, U (They threw in extra credit because I was so perfect)
BCPM GPA: 4.05 (I got a 4.0 in a -3 credit course, giving me extra GPA points)
Overall GPA: 4.01
AMCAS Verified: Yes, 5/25


Brief Profile:
Vaccinated kids in Nigeria
Worked in cancer study lab since I was 5 years old, helped find cure for cancer within my own blood
Beat Chuck Norris in a fistfight


Overview of Applications:
Withdrew Pre-Secondary
All schools I didn't want to go to.

Rejected Post-Secondary
I rejected schools I didn't want to go to post-secondary, but paid their staff so they could cry at the candidate they missed.

Withdrew Post-Secondary
See above.


Waitlisted, Did Not Get Accepted
None

Accepted
Harvordale University 6/5/09 - Top choice. They apologized for taking so long to get to me because they were busy creating an application form for all the other non-special students.

Summary of Application Process:
If you don't submit early, you're submitting late.

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Honestly, anything you enjoy, as long as it's fun, helps the community, or involves health care.
 
No, it's Chuck Norris'.

He's the only one who can beat himself.

that's what she said?

okay, i'm sorry. that was terrible. i'll make it up to all the readers of this thread with some advice: OP, it is important to do what has been mentioned above (volunteering, research, clinical, etc) but for the sake of your sanity and your application, pick something else just for fun and run with it. it doesn't have to be an organized club or whatever, just devote time to something you care about and enjoy.
 
Minus the whole getting pwnd in 'The Way of the Dragon' thing...

Movies would suck if all he did was step on the studio and killed everyone. Even THAT gets old...

OH CRUD, IT'S CHUCK NORRIS. *gets kicked in the screen*

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