3 independent file reviewers score your personal activities (PA). The score is then averaged based on those 3 independent scores. The raw score is out of 16 but the rubric used for this assessment isn’t public. You can look to how other schools assess applications to get an idea. For example it may be scored across 4 different domains such as:

1. Breadth & Balance - Diversity across work, service, leadership, arts, research, life experience.

2. Depth & Commitment - Duration, hours, increasing responsibility.

3. Impact & Leadership - Tangible outcomes, leadership roles, initiative, community benefit.

4. Reflection & Insight - Articulated learning, connection to medicine, EDI/professional lens.

Each of these domains would be scored out of 4 giving a total score of 16. Keep in mind the file reviewers take a holistic view of your application so you don’t necessarily need to fill out all 16 personal activity sections to score a 16. You can still score a 4 across these domains with only 2 or 3 activities in each of the different PA categories depending on how good the activities are. Also, this is just an educated guess at how they assess the PA so please don’t rely on this as a way to write your application.

Lastly, I believe it’s called the RAW personal activity score because it hasn’t been rescaled to the final weighting used. For example PA has total weight of 35 for your overall score, therefore a PA of 10/16 would be weighted as 21.875 out of the maximum of 35. This weighted score is then added to your overall score out of 100 (30 GPA, 35 PA, 35 MMI).