Improving chances at the school through ECs?

[NJDIF]

Does doing things associated with the medical school (research, volunteering at university hospitals, shadowing) improve chances at being accepted to that particular school? If I am doing research at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, will that play in my favor at RWJMS?

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[somethingpositi]

I don't think schools have an "official" stance on whether it helps at all, but I imagine that if you get a rec from someone at that school, the admissions committee might give it a little more weight.

 

[Depakote]

reseach at school X... probably not any more helpful than research anywhere else.

research at school X under PI Y and having PI Y talk to his friend on the Admissions committee... that might do it.