When is too late?

[frodo25]

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If I started the bulk of my hospital volunteering and shadowing the summer before my junior year, would that be considered late? I spent my first two years mostly trying to keep my grades up and didn't spend much time thinking about EC's other than research.

 

[Doctor Dream]

If I started the bulk of my hospital volunteering and shadowing the summer before my junior year, would that be considered late? I spent my first two years mostly trying to keep my grades up and didn't spend much time thinking about EC's other than research.

I'm in a similar boat as you, I wasn't pursuing medicine until a few months ago. I think we're late but not too late. I'm most likely taking a gap year, so I have time to get more EC hours/experiences that I wouldn't have from just a year.

 

[ciestar]

Better to be "late" than to not do it at all!

 

[frodo25]

Would it be necessary for me to take a gap year?

 

[Psai]

Probably not