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Schools love to see applicants highlight clinical experiences in their W&A, but it can also be valuable to highlight non-clinical experiences. Particularly those which demonstrate your abilities in critical thinking, leadership, teamwork, and empathy. Over the next week or so, we'll share some of the activities that admissions committees love to see in applicants' W&A sections.
Research and/or Lab Work: Spotlight on Johns Hopkins: AMCAS matriculation data for the 2018 entering class stated that 96% had research or lab experience. If you want to attend a school famous for its research, you need more than one of these gigs. Even schools that aren't explicitly known for research love seeing multiple research positions in your W&A.
There's so much critical thinking involved in research. And there's the opportunity to be published—a slam dunk. In research work, you will collaborate with a team to accomplish a measurable and valuable task. The cooperation and diligence you need to be a part of such projects are exactly the qualities you want to highlight in your W&A and Personal Statement. You also want to include these qualities in the "game plan" that you send to a supervisor who you'd like to be one of your recommenders. Even being a small part of something can make a huge impact. We had a client who essentially did data entry for a research project, but her careful work caught two mistakes that would have ruined the data set. Her team credited her on a scientific paper for her contributions, an unexpected peacock-sized feather in her cap.
Interested in learning more? Check out Apply Point's offerings here.
Research and/or Lab Work: Spotlight on Johns Hopkins: AMCAS matriculation data for the 2018 entering class stated that 96% had research or lab experience. If you want to attend a school famous for its research, you need more than one of these gigs. Even schools that aren't explicitly known for research love seeing multiple research positions in your W&A.
There's so much critical thinking involved in research. And there's the opportunity to be published—a slam dunk. In research work, you will collaborate with a team to accomplish a measurable and valuable task. The cooperation and diligence you need to be a part of such projects are exactly the qualities you want to highlight in your W&A and Personal Statement. You also want to include these qualities in the "game plan" that you send to a supervisor who you'd like to be one of your recommenders. Even being a small part of something can make a huge impact. We had a client who essentially did data entry for a research project, but her careful work caught two mistakes that would have ruined the data set. Her team credited her on a scientific paper for her contributions, an unexpected peacock-sized feather in her cap.
Interested in learning more? Check out Apply Point's offerings here.
