To Tutor or Not to Tutor

[lord-christoph]

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Hello wise denizens of SDN, I find myself with a conundrum I wish to receive your insight on. Should I tutor next year at my university, UC Irvine, or spend my time doing other things like research, volunteering, or shadowing? I'm already shadowing a plastic surgeon I know personally. I like tutoring, and I want to tutor, but its a bit of a time sink with all my upper division courses I have to do. My GPA isn't stellar, having been an impetuous music major after high school, then a fat break from school while in the military and EMS. I'm thinking my MCAT score, which I'll take in a year, and my EC's will be what drive my application. I doubt my handsome face will hurt 😛 Anyways, is tutoring a good investment of my time while being a pre-med student or are there other avenues that I can or should pursue so as to better demonstrate my candidacy for medical school?

 

[Cytarabine]

Hello wise denizens of SDN, I find myself with a conundrum I wish to receive your insight on. Should I tutor next year at my university, UC Irvine, or spend my time doing other things like research, volunteering, or shadowing? I'm already shadowing a plastic surgeon I know personally. I like tutoring, and I want to tutor, but its a bit of a time sink with all my upper division courses I have to do. My GPA isn't stellar, having been an impetuous music major after high school, then a fat break from school while in the military and EMS. I'm thinking my MCAT score, which I'll take in a year, and my EC's will be what drive my application. I doubt my handsome face will hurt 😛 Anyways, is tutoring a good investment of my time while being a pre-med student or are there other avenues that I can or should pursue so as to better demonstrate my candidacy for medical school?

Protect your GPA

 

[Germanicus89]

To tutor, or not to tutor - that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind of adcoms to suffer
The slings and arrows of another EC
Or to take arms against a sea of ignorance
And by tutoring end them. To tutor, to teach--
No more--and by a lesson to say we end
The confusion, and the thousand natural shocks
That a student is heir to. 'Tis an occupation
Devoutly to be wished. To apply, to interview--
To interview--perchance to matriculate: ay, there's the rub,
For in that matriculation what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this pre med coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long an application cycle.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of adcoms,
Th' LOR's wrong, the gunner's contumely
The pangs of despised MMI's, the rejection's delay,
The insolence of SDN, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his application make
With a tutoring position? Who would protect his GPA,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after applications,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
Few applicants return, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ECs we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus med school applications do make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And tutoring, enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The wise professor! -- Teacher, in thy LOR
Be all my office hours remembered.

 

[lord-christoph]

Guess I won't worry too much about the tutoring then.

Germanicus, that was brilliant.