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No. Maybe that’s why. 😔
How do medical schools view varsity esports?
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No. Maybe that’s why. 😔
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yes and yes.
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Overwatch!
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Yup haha I was a top 40 Widowmaker at one point. I feel you on the Dva struggles. Try hog or ball if you want to climb out of diamond!
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That’s like actually a professional sport level achievement. If you frame it around being top 40 out of like 50,000 overwatch players than it’s sure to turn heads.
Esports is a new wave but a pro sport no less.
Edit: 500,000 daily players !! Your literally the 1% of the 1%.
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This might be a bit of an offensive question but do you look like a stereotypical gamer or nah. Cause if you've ever seen those "hot gamer/fat gamer" memes, I've unfortunately found them to be true.
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I don’t think so? Lmfao I have heard of some medical schools only taking good looking people though
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haha sweet. yea, I think with gaming it's one of those cases where people are like wow that's cool if you're not a fat neckbeard with low stats, but if you're are then it makes them go "Wow, do this is where he chooses to put his time"
Just discovered this thread while browsing SDN. (kinda like how you can dive into YouTube recommended video binges /shrug)
Video games admittedly constituted more than three activities for me, a most meaningful, and a couple paragraphs of my personal statement. Not ONCE were they listed as hobbies. It provided a couple avenues of leadership, moderating, administration and PR skills, the chance to meet hundreds of people from around the world, experience fundraising, and even making me a better scribe (my WPM is over 100 now kekw). Of course, I had a lot of the stuff you'd want out of a premed (clinical and nonclinical interests), but this was hardly a cookie-cutter application. A lot of the responsibilities of common activities on a primary speak for themselves but I definitely had more explaining to do with the character limits I had ("Now what in tarnation is a moderator on 'Twitch' or 'Discord'?").
But I can genuinely say that the social skills I learned being in the realm of video games and Esports probably gave me the dose of "professional hot seat" I needed to grow as a person. Interacting with all sorts of people and tackling issues in online communities became second-nature. The one interview I had was 2 hours of closed-file MMI and I was right at home answering prompts that the school intentionally made sure interviewees would have never seen before.
Of course, n = 1 and I can't say it wasn't stressful applying with so many activities centered around video games. I just wanted to go to med school, not be a pioneer with a different realm of activity list! But I can't deny that I'm the person I am now in large part due to them! There was a school who was willing to take a chance on that, and who liked what they saw on interview day.
To answer your question, by all means! Include Esports as a hobby/varsity sport and be prepared to answer questions about them (even though I wasn't asked lol). There are so many avenues you can take to develop yourself as a premed ready for the next step that I can't imagine a med school shutting you out just for playing varsity Overwatch.
btw the games I were most into were Pokemon 🙂
Video games admittedly constituted more than three activities for me, a most meaningful, and a couple paragraphs of my personal statement. Not ONCE were they listed as hobbies. It provided a couple avenues of leadership, moderating, administration and PR skills, the chance to meet hundreds of people from around the world, experience fundraising, and even making me a better scribe (my WPM is over 100 now kekw). Of course, I had a lot of the stuff you'd want out of a premed (clinical and nonclinical interests), but this was hardly a cookie-cutter application. A lot of the responsibilities of common activities on a primary speak for themselves but I definitely had more explaining to do with the character limits I had ("Now what in tarnation is a moderator on 'Twitch' or 'Discord'?").
But I can genuinely say that the social skills I learned being in the realm of video games and Esports probably gave me the dose of "professional hot seat" I needed to grow as a person. Interacting with all sorts of people and tackling issues in online communities became second-nature. The one interview I had was 2 hours of closed-file MMI and I was right at home answering prompts that the school intentionally made sure interviewees would have never seen before.
Of course, n = 1 and I can't say it wasn't stressful applying with so many activities centered around video games. I just wanted to go to med school, not be a pioneer with a different realm of activity list! But I can't deny that I'm the person I am now in large part due to them! There was a school who was willing to take a chance on that, and who liked what they saw on interview day.
To answer your question, by all means! Include Esports as a hobby/varsity sport and be prepared to answer questions about them (even though I wasn't asked lol). There are so many avenues you can take to develop yourself as a premed ready for the next step that I can't imagine a med school shutting you out just for playing varsity Overwatch.
btw the games I were most into were Pokemon 🙂
