No Undergrad clinical / community service

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So during my undergraduate years I spent most of my time studying, doing research, and being on a sports team. As a result during those years I had NO clinical or community service. Now that I am done with school and taking some time off I volunteer at my local Emergency Department once a week and do the same at a free clinic for the uninsured. Can this make up for my lack of undergrad clinical and community service? I feel like I am doing a post-bac in volunteering. I am having a lot of fun and learning a lot, but doing about 6 hours of volunteering a week on top of working full time doing cancer research is all I can take. Do you think I am getting "enough" time to off set my lack of undergraduate experiences? I am doing a volunteering post-bac. of my own creation but is it enough?

 

[Mandek]

So during my undergraduate years I spent most of my time studying, doing research, and being on a sports team. As a result during those years I had NO clinical or community service. Now that I am done with school and taking some time off I volunteer at my local Emergency Department once a week and do the same at a free clinic for the uninsured. Can this make up for my lack of undergrad clinical and community service? I feel like I am doing a post-bac in volunteering. I am having a lot of fun and learning a lot, but doing about 6 hours of volunteering a week on top of working full time doing cancer research is all I can take. Do you think I am getting "enough" time to off set my lack of undergraduate experiences? I am doing a volunteering post-bac. of my own creation but is it enough?

Don't worry, you'll be fine. You have a decent uGPA and you just need to bring up that MCAT score. Good thing is you got a 10 on VR. Its much easier to pull those PS and BS scores to 10+. Just focus on your MCAT score, and do some volunteering and shadowing and you're golden. Good luck! 👍

 

[Luxian]

I think they don't care _when_ so much as _that_ you have done volunteering. You'll do just fine!