Improve your AMCAS application with one weird trick

[Med Ed]

Purge every sentence that begins with the word "as."

Experience: Medical scribe
Description: As a medical scribe, I...

Experience: Student ambassador
Description: As a student ambassador, I...

Experience: Research technician
Description: As a research technician, I...

Experience: Rape crisis hotline volunteer
Description: As a rape crisis hotline volunteer, I...

Experience: The rains down in Africa
Description: As the rains down in Africa, I...

Seriously, my eyes are bleeding.

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[Lawpy]

Good advice. Is this a supplement to You're doing it wrong, part 2: your experiences?

 

[Cyberdyne 101]

How about, "when I moonlighted as a vigilante, I..."

thanks for the advice!

 

[Med Ed]

Good advice. Is this a supplement to You're doing it wrong, part 2: your experiences?

It's a cry for help.

 

[Med Ed]

How about, "when I moonlighted as a vigilante, I..."

My third grade teacher bludgeoned us with the fact that you don't answer written questions with the word "because." In the same vein, you can always start with the "I".

 

[onyxbell]

As a pupper I feel necessary to ask WHY so many faculties, physicians, adcoms in this forum have cat avatars? Am I disadvantaged?

 

[Med Ed]

As a pupper I feel necessary to ask WHY so many faculties, physicians, adcoms in this forum have cat avatars? Am I disadvantaged?

It's @Goro 's world, we're just living in it.

 

[Goro]

As a pupper I feel necessary to ask WHY so many faculties, physicians, adcoms in this forum have cat avatars? Am I disadvantaged?

Yes.

Dogs are natural sycophants. If they could talk, they'd say "You're the most wonderful person in the history of the Universe!"

You have to be special to earn the love of a cat.

 

[onyxbell]

Like this? Welp brb getting ready for another re-application.

 

[Master Thinker]

If someone were to stumble upon this thread, they would think we are a pet-enthusiast forum. Srsly, I think the takeaway is that you should always include a cat in your secondary photo 😛

 

[Lucca]

As a pupper I feel necessary to ask WHY so many faculties, physicians, adcoms in this forum have cat avatars? Am I disadvantaged?

To paraphrase @wingedscapula , Reddit is like dogs. on premed Reddit everything and everyone is awesome and everyone thinks everyone else will succeed at everything they set their mind to.

SDN is cats.

 

[HomeSkool]

How about, "when I moonlighted as a vigilante, I..."

thanks for the advice!

Change "vigilante" to "volunteer deputy sheriff" and you're golden.

 

[Robin-jay]

If someone were to stumble upon this thread, they would think we are a pet-enthusiast forum. Srsly, I think the takeaway is that you should always include a cat in your secondary photo 😛

Is this the pre-vet forum?? 😉

 

[HomeSkool]

Is this the pre-vet forum?? 😉

If I ever change my avatar to a cat, it's gonna be this:

 

[Robin-jay]

If I ever change my avatar to a cat, it's gonna be this:

Caption: "Male bachelor Lion can't figure out why he's single".

 

[21Rush12]

@Lucca you are really hitting the nail on the head today

 

[LAIsTheBestPlaceEver]

Purge every sentence that begins with the word "as."

Experience: Medical scribe
Description: As a medical scribe, I...

Experience: Student ambassador
Description: As a student ambassador, I...

Experience: Research technician
Description: As a research technician, I...

Experience: Rape crisis hotline volunteer
Description: As a rape crisis hotline volunteer, I...

Experience: The rains down in Africa
Description: As the rains down in Africa, I...

Seriously, my eyes are bleeding.

Hi, just a quick question. I have to list two roles under one organization(Scholarship Chair and then President). Is it okay for me to describe what I've done in each role using this phrase "As the scholarship chair, I ..." and "Later, as the president, I..."

I really can't find a better way to discuss the different works I have done under these two roles without using "As..." 🙁

 

[maplecookie]

Hi, just a quick question. I have to list two roles under one organization(Scholarship Chair and then President). Is it okay for me to describe what I've done in each role using this phrase "As the scholarship chair, I ..." and "Later, as the president, I..."

I really can't find a better way to discuss the different works I have done under these two roles without using "As..." 🙁

You could do something like "My roles as scholarship chair included: blah blah.... Later on as the president I did blah blah". Honestly, I think the point here is just don't use "As" as your starting word excessively not avoid all usage of it obsessively.

 

[Med Ed]

Hi, just a quick question. I have to list two roles under one organization(Scholarship Chair and then President). Is it okay for me to describe what I've done in each role using this phrase "As the scholarship chair, I ..." and "Later, as the president, I..."

I really can't find a better way to discuss the different works I have done under these two roles without using "As..." 🙁

"Scholarship Chair: _. President: _."

Done.

 

[chemdoctor]

This is really helpful! Thanks!

 

[LAIsTheBestPlaceEver]

"Scholarship Chair: _. President: _."

Done.

Thank you!!

 

[DameJulie]

That's solid advice! I did that many times in my previous app. What I didn't realize is that the reader already knew what/who I was based on the title/organization info. Don't need to tell them again that you're a scribe/president of club/best student of your class.