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Hi y'all. So I am currently a junior and am planning on taking a gap year so I have basically an extra year to take the MCAT. Knowing myself and how important the MCAT is, I feel like using this summer to study for it and take it where I have much fewer distractions would be much more ideal than trying to study throughout the school year while trying to balance school, research, and other ECs. This way, I also would have plenty of time to retake it if I happened to need to (let's hope not) and if I don't need to, I could use the extra time to relax more senior year but also focus more on my honors thesis and other activities I have going.
I guess my only concern with this is that I feel like I already wasted a summer last summer due to my plans getting canceled because of COVID-19. I mean, granted, I tried to virtually volunteer and shadow consistently, worked a little bit, dipped my toes into MCAT studying, and whatever else I could do to keep myself productive, but I guess I did not get the experience I had hoped to get like many others. So I guess my question is would it be bad to take this upcoming summer to study for and take the MCAT? I would also try to do in-person shadowing if I can and continue to volunteer for hospice and virtual volunteering alongside studying, but that would be about it.
I am also just feeling extra unsure because I brought this plan up to my friend who told me I would be better off getting a certification over the summer and using that to get a job since that supposedly "looks better" (I don't really believe them, but it wasn't great to hear either).
Let me know what you guys think!
I guess my only concern with this is that I feel like I already wasted a summer last summer due to my plans getting canceled because of COVID-19. I mean, granted, I tried to virtually volunteer and shadow consistently, worked a little bit, dipped my toes into MCAT studying, and whatever else I could do to keep myself productive, but I guess I did not get the experience I had hoped to get like many others. So I guess my question is would it be bad to take this upcoming summer to study for and take the MCAT? I would also try to do in-person shadowing if I can and continue to volunteer for hospice and virtual volunteering alongside studying, but that would be about it.
I am also just feeling extra unsure because I brought this plan up to my friend who told me I would be better off getting a certification over the summer and using that to get a job since that supposedly "looks better" (I don't really believe them, but it wasn't great to hear either).
Let me know what you guys think!
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