What year were you most active?

[Parklife]

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When did you really get involved volunteering, go abroad, participate in research, join an intramural, joined and/or led an organization, or worked?

If you were solid through and through, which year made the biggest impact on your application, pre-med career, college experience, and you and a person?



I think this will be interesting. My bet is that most people were most involved during their sophomore year.

 

[angemon89]

Took my research project seriously, making a poster on my research, volunteering (and non-clinical volunteering), amazing grades.

Super senior beast mode.

 

[Dynamo24]

My Junior year started at the beginning of this summer but already its by far been the busiest. Just got involved in research, continued volunteering/leadership roles through my church, working ~20 hours a week. Fall semester starts in a few weeks so work will go down but 16 credit hours w/ 2 lab sciences on top of the research/volunteer/leadership roles. Have a baby coming in January along with studying for the MCAT. Might be on heart attack watch at that point, but if I can hammer out A's and score high on the MCAT, worth every single second of it.

 

[Parklife]

Junior year = 4.0 and 38 on the MCAT. Just OK ECs though.

Sophomore year was my worst year academically and I did almost no ECs.

What happened sophomore year that made it so rough if you don't mind me asking? I'm wondering because of the poll results.

 

[Parklife]

Just laziness. I got too much into the typical 'college experience.' My GPA was 3.78 so I didn't do terrible, I just didn't do much outside of studying and focusing on my social life. It wasn't until junior year that I realized "Oh ****! I don't have anything to write about in the activities section of my application."

That was your worst academic year?


🙄 SDN...

 

[Ansar]

That was your worst academic year?

🙄 SDN...

For real... 👎

 

[Parklife]

When did most of you start doing research?

 

[ur2l8]

When did most of you start doing research?

Beg soph yr

 

[TheShaker]

When did most of you start doing research?

Beginning of my sophomore year.

I think sophomore year was very active since I was doing my research and volunteering. Junior year was normal but it meant more since it was when I was really absorbed into my EC's. Senior year was likely the busiest since I was studying for the MCAT and trying to check as many boxes as possible before application time arrives.

 

[TheShaker]

That was your worst academic year?


🙄 SDN...

 

[Parklife]

Interesting... I would expect people to do research after organic..unless you all took gen chem, bio, and organic in the same year?

 

[TheShaker]

Interesting... I would expect people to do research after organic..unless you all took gen chem, bio, and organic in the same year?

I work in a microbiology lab, you really only need to finish cell biology for that. The rest can be taught to you. Even molecular labs take really young students.

 

[shaq93]

When did most of you start doing research?

I began doing research the spring semester (2012) of my freshman year.

 

[chillaxbro]

Literally didnt do anything until my junior year. Regretted it every second when I had to write PS and activities. Went all out my junior year... studying (managed to get a 4.0 in one of my semesters taking the hardest classes I could and scoring ~95th percentile on MCAT), volunteering, research, TAing, etc.

 

[Irish Football]

Junior year, no question.

 

[Parklife]

Literally didnt do anything until my junior year. Regretted it every second when I had to write PS and activities. Went all out my junior year... studying (managed to get a 4.0 in one of my semesters taking the hardest classes I could and scoring ~95th percentile on MCAT), volunteering, research, TAing, etc.

Did you get accepted?

 

[ligand]

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[Parklife]

I was pretty active freshman year--research, leadership, volunteering. Now I'm not sure if I should keep doing the same thing or try something new. It's probably gonna go downhill from here.

Keep it up!

 

[gyropath]

Sexually?

 

[dmf2682]

Junior year, definitely. I was photo editor of the paper and I was also in residence life. I started an independent study where I led a team of undergrads to design and build a flying robot, and then that summer I went to work for NASA working on the shuttle program. I also started training for a pilot's license but I didn't finish until right before graduation.

 

[Parklife]

Sexually?

Sure, why not

Junior year, definitely. I was photo editor of the paper and I was also in residence life. I started an independent study where I led a team of undergrads to design and build a flying robot, and then that summer I went to work for NASA working on the shuttle program. I also started training for a pilot's license but I didn't finish until right before graduation.

Damn...

 

[Parklife]

Don't mean to raise the dead, but I'm still interested in hearing stories from people.

Plus it'll help with the new influx of "premeds" from 2016. 🙄

 

[La Presse]

Sexually active? Freshman. Medically active? Sophomore.