Most meaningful experience

[Lilbird123]

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I am about to submit my AMCAS app and I have only name one most meaningful experience. I just cant write anything great about my other experiences, and I dont really want to force it. I am just wondering if it is okay to only have one most meaningful experience on my app? please help; I need to submit soon

 

[B-Lymphocyte]

It would be better to have more...admittedly I'm not sure how much it would hurt you to have only one. How many experiences do you have on that section? Is there really not one or two more that you could write more about?

When I wrote mine, I tied my most meaningful experiences into my personal statement about why medicine. What angle are you writing your personal statement from? What experiences made you choose medicine? Those are the ones I would put in the most meaningful experiences section or anything else that had a meaningful impact on you.

 

[Lilbird123]

I have 11 work/activities. Some of them were during my first two years of college and I don't remember them well enough to write more about them without sounding stupid. I already wrote about being a hospice volunteer as one of my most meaningful, and I have been thinking about adding my research I am currently doing or my volunteer work at a women's shelter, but every time I start writing about them it just sounds stupid. This could be due to me being extremely exhausted though. I'll just say that my GPA is 3.95 MCAT is 513 and my activities and volunteer work are good. It would be nice to get away with just one most meaningful experience but I should be safe and add one more instead. I just wish I could get it to sound good. Ugh. Would you say two most meaningful experiences would be enough? I'd rather be safe than sorry about it I guess

 

[TheBiologist]

I have 11 work/activities. Some of them were during my first two years of college and I don't remember them well enough to write more about them without sounding stupid. I already wrote about being a hospice volunteer as one of my most meaningful, and I have been thinking about adding my research I am currently doing or my volunteer work at a women's shelter, but every time I start writing about them it just sounds stupid. This could be due to me being extremely exhausted though. I'll just say that my GPA is 3.95 MCAT is 513 and my activities and volunteer work are good. It would be nice to get away with just one most meaningful experience but I should be safe and add one more instead. I just wish I could get it to sound good. Ugh. Would you say two most meaningful experiences would be enough? I'd rather be safe than sorry about it I guess

a 3.95/513 is pretty damn good

 

[Lilbird123]

a 3.95/513 is pretty damn good

So maybe I could get by with only writing about one most meaningful experience?

 

[TheBiologist]

So maybe I could get by with only writing about one most meaningful experience?

i'm sorry lol, this I'm not sure about. what I will say is that imo 1 thing you can write something good about beats 1 good thing and 2 "forced" things; you really can't find anything to say in your other 10 activities? even just 1 more?

 

[B-Lymphocyte]

There's a limit of three correct? Your stats are good so you're probably going to be fine, but....medical school admissions are very fickle and can sometimes reject people based off what might think are minor things. I would try to go for all three ideally but if you can only do one more without sounding fake, then go for it.

 

[Lawpy]

I don't think schools require having 3 most meaningful experiences (or even 2). AMCAS requires listing one of the experiences as most meaningful. I think you'll be okay with just one. Personally, most meaningful experience descriptions are rather overrated and it's better to use them in cases where you exceed the 700-character limit.

 

[Lilbird123]

i'm sorry lol, this I'm not sure about. what I will say is that imo 1 thing you can write something good about beats 1 good thing and 2 "forced" things; you really can't find anything to say in your other 10 activities? even just 1 more?

I may be able to but I guess I just want to hurry and submit my app. I'm working full time in a lab and driving an hour and a half there and back each day. I just don't have much free time to sit down and try, but maybe I can wait and try this weekend. I'm just so worried about it sounding dumb

 

[Lilbird123]

There's a limit of three correct? Your stats are good so you're probably going to be fine, but....medical school admissions are very fickle and can sometimes reject people based off what might think are minor things. I would try to go for all three ideally but if you can only do one more without sounding fake, then go for it.

I will try. Honestly I think I used up all my writing skills on my personal statement lol

 

[B-Lymphocyte]

Meh...I'm pretty sure mine was dumb too...but they let me in lol. I probably agree with Lawper though.

 

[Lilbird123]

I don't think schools require having 3 most meaningful experiences (or even 2). AMCAS requires listing one of the experiences as most meaningful. I think you'll be okay with just one. Personally, most meaningful experience descriptions are rather overrated and it's better to use them in cases where you exceed the 700-character limit.

The one experience that I did write about sounds very good. My top choice school has average GPA of 3.7 and 508 MCAT so I'm hoping that this won't be a big deal to this school since my stats are much higher than the average accepted stats

 

[Lilbird123]

Meh...I'm pretty sure mine was dumb too...but they let me in lol. I probably agree with Lawper though.

Idk I will wait maybe a couple more days and if I can't come up with anything good then I will just have less instead of dumb filler writing lol