UnIqUe?!? One thing that sets you apart from other applicants?

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professional cellist, former Miss Hollywood (I cringe to say I'm a pageant girl, though, I just happen to enjoy competing and have lots of titles)

love to paint for my apartment and friends, and have four aquariums! love fish. i would looovvee to be the scuba girl who scrubs the walls of a tank with a toothbrush. haha.

now please some medical school let me in!! i'm so sick of working full time and going to school at night and now a second job to pay for apps and i'm gonna diiieeeeeeee.
 
work as a medic in the military...and I make robots. Latest one follows/turns towards/drive towards light or brighter places 🙂
 
i can draw good illustrations and stuff...in a short time..

and I do modeling... is that a plus?😀
 
I was on the Philippine Ice Skating Team (yes, there's ice skating in the Philippines). 😉
 
bootylicious said:
Just out of curiousity, what makes you stand out? Any interesting EC's? It would be nice to see a good amount of answers b/c it will show us if what you think makes you unique is actually true. 😀


I guess I'll start. I'm a professional diver (scuba that is...😛).
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Yeah that's my uniqueness too...you a divemaster or an instructor..? I'm planning on getting my Master Diver from PADI by the time I go to UCSB. Good to see another diver! 👍
 
Two deployments to Iraq as a Marine and Marine of the Year in 2005 (at the battalion level, not the entire Marine Corps)
🙂
 
I am thinking I might have the lowest GPA of any med school matriculant in the country next year.

Obviously, there is a little more to my grades than the overall GPA, but my grades my first time through college really drag down the overall number.
 
bootylicious said:
Just out of curiousity, what makes you stand out? Any interesting EC's? It would be nice to see a good amount of answers b/c it will show us if what you think makes you unique is actually true. 😀


I guess I'll start. I'm a professional diver (scuba that is...😛).
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Are you really bootylicious...so bootylicious your body is too bootylicious for for most furniture?...when you sit down does your bootylicious booty make you appear taller than you really are?

Do you shake your jelly at every chance?😉
 
I bomb hills, not countries.


Landyachtz EVO, 90MM Abec 11 Fly's, Bones Reds, Randal R2 150mm trucks. Oooyeahhh.
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the only thing that might be conisered "unique" is that i had to go through a chronic illness throughout my first 3 years of uni.
 
I've supported myself since I was 16 after my mom suffered a major breakdown and I had to leave home. I've also worked in Africa doing medical missionary work (though I see that rds726 has trumped me with 4 months in Ghana... mine will work out to a little over a month total).
 
TheProwler said:
I have completely unique fingerprints. My interviewers were all stunned.
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niiiice. they HAVE to take you. it would be pure crazysauce if they didnt. hehe.
 
I am a great listener. I make sure to let my interviewers know that they are welcome to share anything with me and once they test my skills by talking about themselves I begin to interview.............. them.
 
I think the main thing that has made me unique this application season is a very different PS, which I took a major risk on. I talk about 3 things that made me who I am, my mom's 'issues' which left me on my own at 16, my son who I had at 19 and the developmental disabilities I had to deal with with him, and my experiences with roller derby which all converged on a major theme. My PS got very good reception at all of my interviews but one, a very traditional ivy league grad.
 
1. Amatuer race car driving for last two years of undergrad. Both open wheel and closed wheel GT series.

2. About 60 hours short of a jet rating on my pilots liscense...and it hasn't cost me anything yet!

3. I like things that go fast, see numbers 1 and 2🙂
 
I am a pretty non-traditional pre-med...

I studied music in undergrad. Started off in Bio but decided that I might as well study music while I have the opportunity. My major is in classical guitar. I also play electric guitar (blues, rock, jazz) piano and cello. I enjoy composing music in my freetime as well. It's interesting how using the right-brain in "musical thought" increases one's ability to study left-brain scientific concepts.

I lived in Europe for a while. Studied German in Austria and stayed with family in Munich for a summer, then moved to Prague and taught English as a second-language for a year. It was an awesome experience. I would have stayed if I didn't want to pursue medicine and I still dream of someday being in a position to move back.

I don't actually have a high-school diploma. I didn't agree with my high-school principal on some important (to me) issues and I'd already taken the ACT so I just went straight to college after my junior year.

anyway, various things to go along with the typical shadowing experiences and volunteering. 👍
 
Drogba said:
Haha, so bitter. Good luck with the rest of your apps!
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You have *no* idea...

Actually, I'm okay with it now. It stung for a while, but I had some good talks (with family and my research head) and I'm cool with it now. I think what's going to set me apart from other applicants now is that I've been accepted to a medical school but will not be attending it (or any school for that matter). 😉
 
ball playa, grew up in da ghetto, got shot twice, but still pulled through cuz of my determination and my genius IQ, 40 in. vertical leap, rescued 15 people as life guard, can run 4.5 on 40 yd dash, etc.
 
GunitBalla187 said:
ball playa, grew up in da ghetto, got shot twice, but still pulled through cuz of my determination and my genius IQ, 40 in. vertical leap, rescued 15 people as life guard, can run 4.5 on 40 yd dash, etc.
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This is what I have to put up with living in Brooklyn.

On a daily basis.

I want to jetpack and live in outer spaces.

So many faces, so many races, so many places

Its impossible in brooklyn, to reach homeostasis
 
I have nothing unique. I'm unique in that I try not to be unique lol...ahh yea if I get this question I'm sooo doommed.
 
People say I'm a redneck. I may be the only one here that enjoys a good dip.
 
I was born in and lived in Africa until I was 18, play the guitar, can speak/read/write spanish (intermediate level), and work for a major medical nutrition company.
 
Get this: I'm white, protestant, middle-class, went to a liberal arts college AND one of my parents is an MD!

I'd say I'm going to stand out in the applicant pool...😛
 
my family and I started this little stage show that we did for a while. I think it really brought us together in some unique ways... although my sister now doesn't speak to the rest of us on advice from her therapist.
We call ourselves "The Aristocrats"...
 
ericL said:
my family and I started this little stage show that we did for a while. I think it really brought us together in some unique ways... although my sister now doesn't speak to the rest of us on advice from her therapist.
We call ourselves "The Aristocrats"...
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FTW.
 
Served 3 combat tours with the US Marine Corp; awarded for actions under fire; and am a damn fine student. Im pretty confident about admissions.👍
 
ONYX4000GT said:
Served 3 combat tours with the US Marine Corp; awarded for actions under fire; and am a damn fine student. Im pretty confident about admissions.👍
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Aww, don't be too modest now.
 
BlackSails said:
My dream interview would be me mentioning that I do karate/krav maga, and the interviewer attacks me to show that he too, does martial arts and to make sure im not a liar.
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:laugh: I actually laughed out loud when I read this; thanks! And please don't numchuck me in the face or anything, or I will swan kick you in the eye, and krav maga you in the back of the head.
 
Darktide said:
I'm unique in that----

1) I own and run a photography business, and have since I was 16

and

2) I'm a Pro. Boxer/mma fighter
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You and Blacksails should have a long-standing SDN feud like Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock. The only question is, who's Tito, and who's Shamrock???
 
Well...I used to have blue/purple hair and sport a spiked collar (heh, I was kind of goth/punky, more because I liked the clothes than anything else). That look has since mostly died down since I work now 🙂 But I do still attend Rocky Horror, and like going to the goth dance clubs (i'm sorry, I like the industrial 80's and house music). That, and there are fewer weird guys that hit on me on the dance floor.) This is of course, never really brought up at interviews...heh. But it does apparently make me somewhat different since I have yet to meet another premed who has the same appreciation for guys in eyeliner, haha.

Umm..I do a lot of art. I've traveled a lot. And I'm apparently the only asian girl born with a "bootylicious" bubble-butt. Yup..you heard me. I can never ever buy pants in china...ever. When I go back there, I feel like the amazing hulk..
 
Vvandenn said:
Aww, don't be too modest now.
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It's a thread about what sets you apart, and being a badassm face-stomping US Marine does just that. Plus, the threshold for arrogance is a little higher here since the whole point is to bring up what makes you a special candidate.
 
Classic17 said:
Two deployments to Iraq as a Marine and Marine of the Year in 2005 (at the battalion level, not the entire Marine Corps)
🙂
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Match that with a good MCAT score and you're pretty much a God among men. Good luck!
 
I turned down several professional sports contracts (running) to become a doctor. Ehh, but it was running, so not quite as glamorous as the major sports.
 
Textuality said:
Well...I used to have blue/purple hair and sport a spiked collar (heh, I was kind of goth/punky, more because I liked the clothes than anything else). That look has since mostly died down since I work now 🙂 But I do still attend Rocky Horror, and like going to the goth dance clubs [...] That, and there are fewer weird guys that hit on me on the dance floor.) This is of course, never really brought up at interviews...heh. But it does apparently make me somewhat different since I have yet to meet another premed who has the same appreciation for guys in eyeliner, haha.

Umm..I do a lot of art. I've traveled a lot. And I'm apparently the only asian girl born with a "bootylicious" bubble-butt. Yup..you heard me. I can never ever buy pants in china...ever. When I go back there, I feel like the amazing hulk..
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I guess that would depend on your definition of weird. :laugh:
 
I think I'm interesting but not unique.....I had my son and gotten married at 19... but that's not unique (bc alot of people get married and have babies).....but It wasn't easy going through undergrad....I had different stresses....then your average 20 year old....

One time the night before a final....my son had gotten an ear infection (He was about 1) with a 103-4 temp.....he was really ill.....vomiting all over me)

See...different types of stresses....

I dunno....about my uniqueness....but my identity is a mother...first & foremost.
 
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