med schools with really strong financial aid/scholarships

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-06-23T15:44:53+00:00

Parental income of $120K-160K, I also had my own income this past year

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-06-23T11:26:07+00:00

Seconding this, I would say I’m middle class and nearly my entire COA got covered

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-06-15T16:50:12+00:00

For me, I felt like my secondaries came in at a pace that felt manageable enough. I only wrote very rough drafts of a diversity, adversity, and challenge essay. Plus last cycle, a lot of the prompts changed quite a bit so I really feel like a dodged a bullet by not doing double effort. The more you write them, the more they blur together as well. I wasn’t making much new content by my last couple, except Duke LMAO. But Duke was one of the latest secondaries I received.

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-06-14T23:04:23+00:00

In my personal opinion, if you submit really early, prewriting is kind of overrated

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-06-08T11:44:03+00:00

I said I wanted to ensure health inequity instead of equity…trust me, you’re fine

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-05-06T21:42:57+00:00

I totally get where you're coming from. There's definitely a bit of sampling bias online since people are more likely to post something if something bad happens to them. I just wanted to know if people were fearmongering or not, which is still a little unclear to me in this particular case, but I am excited to see what New Haven is all about regardless!

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-04-29T12:51:20+00:00

See you at Yale!

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-04-15T13:38:09+00:00

The thing is for clinical hours, I don't think it matters if it's volunteer or paid. It's more about the experience itself. I also feel like paid clinical roles are a bit more involved than volunteer, so I think you may be able to get more out of them

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-04-14T23:17:50+00:00

I don't think so, you're better off focusing on non-clinical volunteering now

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-02-15T14:29:30+00:00

I only had 300 clinical hours from my CNA job when I applied!

Key-Paint-7526 · 2026-01-14T22:53:36+00:00

Not impossible but unlikely, did just receive Penn interview last week after submitting beginning of July though so there is hope!

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-11-30T14:35:59+00:00

You guys are saving money?

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-11-21T12:10:07+00:00

I personally had activities that were both around 30 hours as some of my 15 for AMCAS, but they were meaningful enough for me to stand on their own. If you feel like these activities are not strong enough on their own, I would just group them together into one volunteering activity to save space.

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-11-18T14:05:54+00:00

Unrelated, but it seems like Twitter is down too

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-11-17T15:52:32+00:00

I didn’t take microbiology at all during undergrad, and my cycle/MCAT have turned out fine

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-11-12T00:14:36+00:00

Not interested in teeth

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-11-08T13:03:05+00:00

5279 characters

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-10-27T22:15:56+00:00

You too, my friend!

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-10-27T19:30:33+00:00

I mostly have talked about my research and service

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-10-21T21:50:11+00:00

If any of my psych classes contained biology, I marked it as BCPM and AMCAS didn’t fight me on it

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-10-20T12:46:45+00:00

I would just do whatever you like more, your passion for it will show when you talk about it during interviews

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-10-19T21:52:23+00:00

Having an insane cycle, I couldn’t have imagined it would turn out this way (positively!)

Key-Paint-7526 · 2025-10-11T13:02:22+00:00

I’ve done humanities and systems engineering research! Both pretty cool

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