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Not trying to be smart, but how DO you know you want to be a doctor?
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Time to start volunteering (or working part-time in a clinical setting). Or, take a gap year now and get a clinical job.
I cannot take a gap year with the accelerated program. I would lose my seat. I would start volunteering, but again, I'm not comfortable with that while COVID-19 is still prevalent.
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That's fair, but I don't think my program falls under typical -- I'm already an accepted medical student.
My healthcare experiences are all from high school, which I referenced during my application process to the accelerated program. My intentions haven't changed in the 2 years after high school. However, I know I can't use volunteer information from then.
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I fail to see the problem. If you're already accepted, just write a stupid essay about whatever the heck. Just say why you want to be a doctor.
That's valid and what I'm doing right now. I wanted to see if there was any way to show interest without clinical experiences.
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I mean, you're in. So do whatever you did. There's no right answer, just do some common sense writing here.
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Could you not use an anecdote from your high school experiences?
That's what I'm doing lol
edit: You could tell me what you disagree with instead of disliking, but go off I guess.
I briefly mentioned my experience as an ER volunteer, but because I read you shouldn't really use high school experiences, I didn't focus on it at all. Hopefully someone could clarify.
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You're handling this rather immaturely. You came here asking for advice. People told you what they thought, yet you keep pushing the issue. Frankly, this only furthers my growing belief that people under 21 are too young for medical school.
I figured a dislike was better than saying that, but there ya go
You're handling this rather immaturely. You came here asking for advice. People told you what they thought, yet you keep pushing the issue. Frankly, this only furthers my growing belief that people under 21 are too young for medical school.
I figured a dislike was better than saying that, but there ya go
I did not receive advice I could use and responded by correcting misconceptions.
I asked for possible ways to write a personal statement without clinical experience. A useful reply would have been focus on experience with pre-health clubs, which I ended up doing.
Regardless of your opinion, I will be going to medical school. My apologies for being born so late.
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Multiple people told you to simply write what you did in highschool but you argued about it. Why come asking for advice if you won't take it?
If you write-off everyone who disagrees with you or points out issues as "judgemental" you are going to have a heck of a time in med school.
And that fact that you retroactively disliked my comments purely because I disliked yours shows the retributive attitude you had when someone said something against you. That is a maturity issue.
I actually did not know the dislike button existed until you used it on mine -- I would have disliked earlier.
Where are the multiple people? Only one person suggested that and I agreed with them? I only wanted clarification that high school experiences were okay to use.
I also called only you judgmental due to your lack of faith in younger medical students.
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If that's is how you see the situation, I'm good just leaving it. Not gonna go anywhere.
Besides, I bet this will be closed pretty quick here.
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I think the general rule of thumb is to exclude high school experiences if you are going through a regular application cycle and trying to convince adcoms that you have an idea of what you're getting yourself into. I'm no expert, but I feel like this doesn't really apply to you as a direct admit. Your personal statement is more just a formality, correct?
Write about the experiences that had the greatest impact on your desire to pursue medicine. If those are from high school, then work with what you've got.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you! I've been focused on sticking to the usual rules, but I guess I didn't think how my statement being a formality would give me more leeway. I should have asked earlier because my clinical experiences from high school would have been a much better topic than my bumbling essay on pre-health clubs (,:
