Hello everyone,

I am looking for some advice as to what I should be doing in remaining three years of university to best prepare for the med school application.

I only volunteered in first year. I feel I wasted my first year in terms of extracurricular activities and want to make the best out of remaining 3 years.

I would love to hear from a med school students what he/she did in university.

Thanks so much!
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!!!!

beg professors for summer research assistant job, so that students who genuinely wants to go into research/grad school can't find a summer RA job.

pursue things that already interest you. you like to play music? maybe learn another instrument, record some songs, play a coffee house. Love to volunteer and help people? Go spend time in a soup kitchen, act as a day care volunteer, work at a summer camp. If you look at the FAQs most med schools say there is no required volunteering, all they want is a rounded individual and how you come to that is up to you!

There is no one path to med school, but if anything, you DON'T want to do what everyone else is doing. And honestly, you'd be surprised how good people are at making very few extracurriculars sound so much bigger/better than they really are. What you do isn't as important as how you spin it, unfortunately.

Thanks everyone!
How about doing part-time tutoring job? Would it be good for the application?

Originally Posted by White24

Thanks everyone!
How about doing part-time tutoring job? Would it be good for the application?

Well, it's not going to hurt...

if you're going to do something with the intention of improving your application, make sure you're in it for the long run. that shows you have commitment and it looks good. Dabbling in 300 different things for a few months at time is meaningless and looks bad.