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[iwanttobedoctorpls]

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You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering (food bank, homeless shelter, etc.) before you submit your application.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
Central Michigan
Wayne State
Michigan State
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Toledo
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
TCU
Belmont
Alice Walton
Roseman
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

 

[iwanttobedoctorpls]

You should accumulate 150+ hours of non clinical volunteering (food bank, homeless shelter, etc.) before you submit your application.
I suggest these schools with your stats:
Central Michigan
Wayne State
Michigan State
Oakland Beaumont
Western Michigan
Toledo
Medical College Wisconsin
Rosalind Franklin
TCU
Belmont
Alice Walton
Roseman
NOVA MD
Wake Forest
Eastern Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
George Washington
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Hackensack
Albany
Vermont
Quinnipiac

Thanks for your reply! Do you think that continuing to be a volunteer literacy tutor will suffice (I can probably get up to 150 by the end of senior year) or do you suggest that I add another non-clinical volunteer role?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thanks for your reply! Do you think that continuing to be a volunteer literacy tutor will suffice (I can probably get up to 150 by the end of senior year) or do you suggest that I add another non-clinical volunteer role?

You should get a different role that doesn't involve teaching, tutoring, or mentoring. Every premed has that, and every premed should have more service orientation activities independent of clinical/healthcare/academic experience. You must have 150 hours when you submit your application to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

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Connect with AMMSA chapters, especially if you wish to stay in-state.

 

[iwanttobedoctorpls]

You should get a different role that doesn't involve teaching, tutoring, or mentoring. Every premed has that, and every premed should have more service orientation activities independent of clinical/healthcare/academic experience. You must have 150 hours when you submit your application to avoid getting screened out at most schools.

How to Assess Your Pre-Professional Competencies | SDN

In 2023, AAMC revised the AAMC Premed Competencies to align with the PREview situational judgment test, incorporate changes in medical education after the

www.studentdoctor.net

How to Assess Your Academic Competencies | SDN

Over a decade ago, I wrote a series of articles (here is Part 1) that heralded the growing importance of understanding “competency.” Over the last decade,

www.studentdoctor.net

Connect with AMMSA chapters, especially if you wish to stay in-state.

Teaching and mentoring is listed as one of the main examples of nonclinical volunteering per AAMC, is it just commonly overdone? My student orgs also deal with helping out the less-advantaged communities in my area through donations and volunteering, so I probably can highlight that in my app. The problem is that I have only one spot left on my activities section, which I was going to fill with the free clinic. I'm also not a Muslim Middle Eastern, so can't go to AMMSA lol.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Teaching and mentoring is listed as one of the main examples of nonclinical volunteering per AAMC, is it just commonly overdone? My student orgs also deal with helping out the less-advantaged communities in my area through donations and volunteering, so I probably can highlight that in my app. The problem is that I have only one spot left on my activities section, which I was going to fill with the free clinic. I'm also not a Muslim Middle Eastern, so can't go to AMMSA lol.

Oops, sorry about the AMMSA referral. I wasn't sure how welcoming they are with Middle Eastern ethnic individuals who are not Muslim.

It may disappoint you, but adcoms don't have to agree with what AAMC publishes. We are the ones who see the hundreds/thousands of applications, and most of them involve tutoring children and underserved populations in a relatively superficial way. Very few are actually employed full-time as teachers in the way Teach for America had placed graduates back in the day. Believe me... just about every applicant has done some tutoring, mentoring, or teaching.

Working with disadvantaged populations is a very common plus factor among applicants. You'll be doing a lot of it in medical school.

If you do a lot of work because you are connected to a community that is also served by your medical school (geographically), then that's a plus factor. We don't consider fundraising as analogous to volunteering your time in-person at food distribution, shelter volunteering, job/tax preparation, transportation, or housing rehabilitation.