I'm glad you have an opinion about this, but I'm going to listen to the following poster's opinion over yours, given that it will have much greater bearing on med school prospects. Known Adcomm>random SDN'er.
If an applicant can only do one thing at a time, like study for MCAT, then how would said applicant handle medical school, where s/he will be taking an MCAT every 1-5 weeks?
I'm glad you have an opinion about this, but I'm going to listen to the following poster's opinion over yours, given that it will have much greater bearing on med school prospects. Known Adcomm>random SDN'er.
Know that Goro admitted that a certain MCAT score is basically a prerequisite for certain schools. He/she also wasn't able to explicitly disagree that a few points on the MCAT is a better asset than slightly increased extracurriculars.
Goro only said that in theory, it is nice to be considered an applicant that can handle extracurriculars as well as academic success, but was never able to bring him/herself to the (explicit) conclusion that the extracurriculars over that period would bring more benefits to the average wannabe matriculant's application than an increased score.