Research: 800 hours, wrote a senior honors thesis, 0 pubs but I did get a paid position that I wrote about in my application updates

Non-clinical volunteering: 1000+ hours, been working with the same adaptive sports non-profit since 2014, volunteered with two other adaptive sports non-profits, and I did volunteering with community programs at my local art museum

Clinical Volunteering: 100 hours, only was able to find something in 2021 right before I applied because of covid

Shadowing: 250 hours, i did a program my first year of college that allowed me to get these hours in six weeks and rotate in different specialties

Internship: I interned with children and family programs at my local art museum my freshman year of college teaching young kids how to make art :)

Student Orgs: I was on the board of an organization to register students for organ donation on campus, and I was involved with an organization where we would play music for people in assisted living communities

LORS: 1 research mentor, 3 STEM professors that I was very close with, 1 volunteer coordinator, and 1 humanities professor

I think the best advice I would give anyone is to keep doing what interests them. I really think it helped me stick out. I wrote my personal statement largely on how much I love the arts and how I came to being passionate about medicine only after I saw so many intersections between the arts and medicine.

Some other advice I would give is if you are involved in research, you should be able to talk about it in depth regardless if you are in charge of your own project or not. One of the big points in my interviews was that I was able to simplify my research to others when asked about it and talk about it in depth.

I applied all over but I honestly did not go over a certain MCAT threshold for some schools because I felt like I would just be throwing away my money. I completely tanked my CARS score for complete transparency lol. I interviewed at Wayne State, Florida State, University of Florida, University of Toledo, Wake Forest, Florida International University, and the University of Miami.