Just finished first semester as a sophomore, I know I didn't get started as quickly as I should've, but I'm gonna start research in a couple weeks, apart from that I've just maintained a 4.0 gpa without any other extracurriculars. I don't want to take a lot of gap years, I would be fine applying my senior year to have 1 gap year but wouldn't want to delay my acceptance longer than that
I was wondering how the heck can you guys manage to "check all the boxes" with research, clinical experience, clinical/nonclinical volunteering, shadowing, clubs all while maintaining a good gpa and studying for the mcat. It doesn't seem possible to fit all of that into a reasonable application time line. For example, doing research and working on my grades doesn't leave any time for clinical experience as a scribe, and if I only do research for a year to do scribing after I likely wont have any publications or anything to show for my work. I'm just stressing out and don't know what's the best thing to do right now.
I was wondering how the heck can you guys manage to "check all the boxes" with research, clinical experience, clinical/nonclinical volunteering, shadowing, clubs all while maintaining a good gpa and studying for the mcat. It doesn't seem possible to fit all of that into a reasonable application time line. For example, doing research and working on my grades doesn't leave any time for clinical experience as a scribe, and if I only do research for a year to do scribing after I likely wont have any publications or anything to show for my work. I'm just stressing out and don't know what's the best thing to do right now.
