Poll time: Are you a cookie cutter pre-med?

[monkeyMD]

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Cookie cutter= having all the typical requirements necessary to gain entrance into a US Med School such as:
clinical volunteering, volunteering, leadership, etc etc.

Special=having a published paper in a well known journal, having won a prestigious award, starting your own very successful business, etc etc.

 

[NickNaylor]

Most people are going to be cookie cutter, thus the name...

 

[BurntFlower]

Cookie cutter= having all the typical requirements necessary to gain entrance into a US Med School such as:
clinical volunteering, volunteering, leadership, etc etc.

Special=having a published paper in a well known journal, having won a prestigious award, starting your own very successful business, etc etc.

According to that definition, I'm cookie-cutter, though I have a lot of EC activities that I've done in my home country Bolivia.

 

[Local Native]

I think you can be a cookie-cutter applicant and still stand out, as contrary as that may seem. It just depends how involved you are with each activity. Two applicants each have a club leadership role, something which may not stand out in its own right on an application, but if one of them actually created a club from the ground up then that will carry more interest in an interview conversation and on paper. So while you may be checking boxes like research, leadership, community service, etc., how far you go with each one is what sets you apart.

 

[monkeyMD]

I think you can be a cookie-cutter applicant and still stand out, as contrary as that may seem. It just depends how involved you are with each activity. Two applicants each have a club leadership role, something which may not stand out in its own right on an application, but if one of them actually created a club from the ground up then that will carry more interest in an interview conversation and on paper. So while you may be checking boxes like research, leadership, community service, etc., how far you go with each one is what sets you apart.

Thus, the gingerbread man.
👍

 

[dmf2682]

Very clever, sir

 

[mauberley]

I was part of a limited run of cookies.

 

[doctorshateher]

My activities are pretty cookie-cutter (ie Tutor, TA, shadowing, etc) but I think there is at least some unique-ness to them.

 

[KobeshouldbeaMD]

I'm a gingerbread man.

 

[MT Headed]

I let flatearth22 vote for me.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=864731

 

[deleted413795]

Non traditional student with a history undergrad, library science grad, and then post grad sciences to fulfill med school requirements.

I am also a man working in OB. Weird...

 

[45408]

I'm pretty special. I've scrubbed in on hundreds of cases in most surgical subspecialties and have done quite a few operations myself. I've delivered babies, put in central lines, chest tubes, art lines and more. I've got big hopes for this application cycle.


but srsly, yes, I was chocolate chip.