timothy786
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No med school adcom will check what you said in your undergrad application. It matters how you identify now. Consider many undergrad freshmen/people who may have learned and reflected more about their gender identity to the point they do not consider themselves as a binary-gender member. Thanks to SCOTUS, we may have to redact how you identified with the race/ethnicity box. (For whatever reason, we may be compelled to redact the preferred pronouns field, but that's for another discussion.)thanks for the response. So 2 questions I have 1. Why not just tick off both asian and african and 2. since i only ticked off asian in my undergrad app will that be a bad thing if i now tick off asian and black since i dont want med schools to think i am bsing
Nopeso i am asian but i am also partly sheedi which is a tribe in pakistan that is from africa but came to pakistan due to slavery. I always put asian because my parents told me to for college but wanted to put both black and asian. i was wondering if putting this now will make me look bad or if the med schools look at my undergrad app.
Do you have any service to communities of color?thanks so i will be putting down black and asian. BTW is there a difference between half urm and half orm or full urm
Multiracial.thanks so i will be putting down black and asian. BTW is there a difference between half urm and half orm or full urm
I suggest a little different mindset. One of the big problems with your thinking is that you are buying into the fallacy of a homogeneous Asian "race" or community. You likely have already prepared yourself to explain what it means to be Sheedi and how you have lived your life with that culture (I have already shared one article on this). Not all Asians are high-scoring test-takers; not all Asians have great health outcomes.I might be a little selfish right now but my logic is my low mcat score and asians have to have higher ones so if i am partly sheedi why should i use that to my advantage especially since i look neither south asian nor black, my friends say i look mexican and number 2 since i have helped both groups throughout my premed journey doing volunteering for both
You being 1/8th black (or any portion of black, for that matter) is not an excuse in itself for you to have a lower MCAT score. Minorities usually have lower scores because they are disadvantaged, not purely because they are minorities. Yes you are right, it is selfish. I would recommend focusing on getting your MCAT score up instead of trying to take advantage of a system built for a specific group of people. But good luck with your decision.I might be a little selfish right now but my logic is my low mcat score and asians have to have higher ones so if i am partly sheedi why should i use that to my advantage especially since i look neither south asian nor black, my friends say i look mexican and number 2 since i have helped both groups throughout my premed journey doing volunteering for both
Individual samples may not tell the whole story. Data are for the current M1 class, not the incoming class.Not to sound rude but then how come i am seeing sankeys of orms vs urms and i clearly see how urm with lower mcat are accepted at higher volumes than the same mcat and orm
507 mcat looks like im cooked R.I.PFrankly, I doubt that checking any specific box will help at all. We can now program the software to mask items that the adcom is not privy to and any admissions office that is paying attention will do that so as to avoid big problems down the road with the feds. The info can still be important to the accrediting body and anyone who needs to see that a diverse student body has been recruited but admissions has to be colorblind.
You can believe whatever reddit tells you, I guess. With that attitude, I think you're more baked in your mindset. You need a growth mindset to be successful in medical school... or to have faculty enjoy having you around. Good luck!507 mcat looks like im cooked R.I.P
507 MCAT is acceptable for most DO schools.507 mcat looks like im cooked R.I.P
Do you think that committees are so simple that checking a single box would magically change how your application viewed in it's entirety? If I interviewed you as another student (who receives your portions of your primary and secondary), and logged onto zoom to see a very clearly asian appearing student checking "black" or "hispanic" I would 100% scrutinize your application further to see why you did that. I would look at family income, how you funded your college education, the jobs your family had, and even see what type of neighborhood you listed for primary address. Then give my findings to the committee if I thought you were being "genuine" or trying to "game the system" thinking it would give you a leg up.507 mcat looks like im cooked R.I.P
You're fine for any DO school, and for MD with a strategic list, especially when targeting service loving schools.507 mcat looks like im cooked R.I.P
He himself is only partly Sheedi and both your parents have said your family's identity is Asian.But i am 1/2 urm. That is literally the story of my father that u pointed out