Hello,
I recently received an email from a school I'm waitlisted at. The email asked waitlisted students to send in LOIs to help the admissions committee make acceptance decisions. Although I would like to send a LOI, I don't have many updates to share, and I wonder if the updates I do have are appropriate to put in a LOI. I would appreciate advice on which, if any, of the below updates are LOI-worthy. Thank you!
- I'm working as a part-time medical transcriptionist at a dermatopathology lab during my gap year, but I don't have any significant updates about the job. It's simply been going.
- I'm a production assistant on a podcast about diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine. The podcast (team) recently won a chapter award from the local chapter of the American College of Physicians. Additionally, I worked on the podcast's first series of sponsored episodes, and I will be receiving a healthy stipend for my contributions. Finally, I've trained the other production assistants as well as the assistant producers on the team on how to navigate a new recording platform.
- I've appeared as a guest speaker at events for a number of pre-med/pre-health student organizations from my undergraduate institution. This generally consists of me talking about my pre-med experience and answering student questions. Audiences have ranged from ~10-50 students per event.
- I participated in a short-term fashion internship and began voice-acting during my spare time. (These are the least relevant updates, but I wanted to put them out there in case they could portray me positively as an applicant with diverse interests.)
