Letters of recommend are also important.) Why “something else?” Medical schools
are very interested in broadly educated, well-rounded, unique individuals they are not interested in bookworms or ‘medi-clones.’ (Medi-clones are pre-meds who smart and have done all the same things.) So, several ‘something elses’ work well. One is community involvement. Medical schools really appreciate your being involved with people in your free time working on a cause that makes your community a better place to live. These involvements include active participation in Habitat for Humanity, coaching or refereeing kid activities through Moscow Parks and Recreation, playing your guitar on a monthly basis for the elderly in a local nursing home, reading to a blind person on a regular basis, etc. They appreciate your taking a cause to heart and doing something about it. Another very positive ‘something else’: international experience. Several of our pre-med students have done university exchanges abroad. One student recently spent a semester working at a medical clinic in Nepal, another
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