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what is considered disadvantaged?
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If you've ever eaten ramen for dinner with your family, then you might be disadvantaged. Look at the qualifications for food stamps and other programs like that and see if you've had them/your family fits the bill. Play that stuff up, make it graaavy.
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When people really had a disadvantaged lifestyle, medical school applications won't be the first time it comes up in their lives. A disadvantaged life is something you've thought about before, it's been brought up, or came to realization in another point of your life. If, because of this application cycle, you are wondering for the first time in your life whether or not you were disadvantaged, you probably weren't.
tldr; if you have to ask...
tldr; if you have to ask...
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Never thought about it like this, but yes, 100%. If you've ever been periodically RATIONALLY pissed or saddened (and also hopefully motivated strongly by) about having so significantly less of something than one should have to lead a normal, healthy, happy, full life or had to work more (in every sense of the word "work") as a result of having less of something (to a somewhat chronic extent), then consider depicting your circumstances in the disadvantaged portion. Don't write with too much emotion though. Just depict the circumstance and describe any consequences objectively. Be appropriately dispassionate. If you have to fish and struggle to find something worthy of writing down, it is probably not worth it.
I do believe some people can just be fortunately naive to what their actual lives have entailed. College usually tears this veil though if the disadvantaged student makes it that far. Nevertheless, it's good for everyone to think about this. Then, if there is something, write dispassionately and honestly, while keeping in mind that someone always has had it worse than you and still became a physician.
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AMCAS designates it for you based on parental education and income level
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If you arrived at college not having had opportunities that were available to the majority of kids prior to arriving in college, and those lack of opportunities held you back in terms of academic achievement in college, then you could consider yourself disadvantaged.
I would count among these:
if you'd never seen a body of water larger than a bathtub
if you never had an opportunity to learn to swim
if you had never seen a play or visited an art museum or heard a classical music performance
if you never had the opportunity to play a sport or attend an activity that took you away from home overnight
if you'd never traveled outside your hometown or more than 50 miles from your hometown. (150 miles if you grew up on a farm or ranch)
I would count among these:
if you'd never seen a body of water larger than a bathtub
if you never had an opportunity to learn to swim
if you had never seen a play or visited an art museum or heard a classical music performance
if you never had the opportunity to play a sport or attend an activity that took you away from home overnight
if you'd never traveled outside your hometown or more than 50 miles from your hometown. (150 miles if you grew up on a farm or ranch)
