Extracurriculars. I need help.

[derronyu95]

Hi everyone,

I recently talked to my pre-med advisor at school about my chances of getting into Med School. I showed her a list of my extracurriculars and she said I was missing a big chunk of activities that showed "Service Orientation". She told me that I should take a year or two off and do something that was in that field, like TFA or the Peace Corps. What do you all think?

Here is a list of my extracurriculars:
Freshman Year:
Leadership Program (ELP)
Revelle Programming Board
Research Summer Intern

Sophomore Year:
Varsity Rowing Team
Hospital Volunteer
Revelle Programming Board
Shadowed an oncologist (summer)

Junior Year (Present):
I dropped the UCSD crew team because I felt that it limited my time and I wasn't able to fully pursue what I wanted.
Hospital Volunteer (Lead Volunteer at Urgent Care)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Business Org (Operations Committee)
Assistant Swim Coach
In the summer:
I shadowed doctors in Spain for 5 weeks.

Senior Year:
VP of Operations for Business Org.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Assistant Swim Coach (Run my own groups and practices)
Leadership Program (Team Leader)

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[premed1234567891011]

Need to see your stats (GPA and MCAT) to know how competitive you are for med school.
I suggest checking out Hospice. ADCOMS seem to love that sort of experience.

 

[derronyu95]

Need to see your stats (GPA and MCAT) to know how competitive you are for med school.
I suggest checking out Hospice. ADCOMS seem to love that sort of experience.

My GPA is a 3.7 and my MCAT is a 510. It's my senior year, is it already too late?

 

[shopsteward]

My GPA is a 3.7 and my MCAT is a 510. It's my senior year, is it already too late?

No. You've got six months to get this done before putting in an application next June. Start a service activity (does not have to be clinical/medical if you will have sufficient clinical volunteering hours in through other means and what you do serves an underserved population) now, put in a decent amount of hours as regularly as you can, put it on your application as a continuing activity with expected future hours, be prepared to discuss how it has affected you and what you have learned from it.

 

[Frogger27]

You have some good ECs... Pick up something like homeless shelter volunteering, hospice, or something and try to get 60 + hours from now-June/July and continue it through the app cycle.. You should be okay