Volunteering/Extracurricular Activities

[foot2foot]

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Do Podiatry school weigh heavily on volunteering and extracurricular activities? Because what I'm seeing is if you have good GPAs as well as 22+ MCAT, an interview could be in store.

 

[theaznfishy]

Good GPA (3.0) and MCAT (22+) are pretty much what you need to get an interview. What locks you into almost definitely getting into that school would be things like doing really well either GPA wise [3.5] or on the MCAT [25+], research publications [golden], really good recommendation letters [from a podiatrist you've shadowed for a while and at least 2 from academic (science)] and a good interview. A good interview is typically made up of legit answers from your own experiences during your time volunteering or extracurricular activities [ex. 'Being on the tennis team could open a good reason why you became interested in podiatry or 'I knew I wanted to go into medicine b/c of [event] that I witnessed in the hospital during my time volunteering.' Etc.] Hope that helps.

 

[foot2foot]

Good GPA (3.0) and MCAT (22+) are pretty much what you need to get an interview. What locks you into almost definitely getting into that school would be things like doing really well either GPA wise [3.5] or on the MCAT [25+], research publications [golden], really good recommendation letters [from a podiatrist you've shadowed for a while and at least 2 from academic (science)] and a good interview. A good interview is typically made up of legit answers from your own experiences during your time volunteering or extracurricular activities [ex. 'Being on the tennis team could open a good reason why you became interested in podiatry or 'I knew I wanted to go into medicine b/c of [event] that I witnessed in the hospital during my time volunteering.' Etc.] Hope that helps.

Have you been accepted?

 

[theaznfishy]

Have you been accepted?

yup

 

[foot2foot]

yup

Well congrats. I'm hoping for Fall 2015