Making Your Activities Section Work For You | Mission: Accepted S3 Ep. 13

Mission: Accepted features successful med school applicants. We dive into their full applications, looking at specifically what worked well, along with what they could've done even better.

[chloebenjamin]

I think it’s important to note the structure of his personal statement was interesting. It was simple but it flowed really well.

1) Start off with a seed and include a sentence explaining how it helped you want to explore what it’s like being a physician.
2) Show how you investigated the job of a physician-Discuss how a shadowing experience really fascinated you
3) Show how a clinical experience really confirmed you wanted to be a physician.
4) Conclusion: Explain your remaining thoughts as to why is it important to you to become a physician, wrapping up the personal statement.

I think it’s also important to note that he showed genuine empathy, compassion, and enthusiasm in his personal statement and continuously reminded the reader how everything he put in his personal statement can be used to answer why he wants to be a doctor.

[Sabrina-lsqc]

Me watching this after working as a insurance sales vp for 7 years considering medical school right now was so perfect

[Jack-ltxe]

Please put timestamps for students to have an easier time to jump to parts they are struggling in!

[MrNamenamenamename]

22:00 calling the mans church group hogwartz is wild

[VinceGuido-ydxq]

You said you had someone in your team who had seeveral f’s but is now in medical school. Can you explain it further?

[skyllarkuppinger]

You said that sales relates to being a physician. But in another video you literally told someone not to compare an extracurricular to being a physician because they are not the same thing. Can you explain why the sales example is different?

[charlie_]

Dr. Gray what do you think about making a hobby (running) most meaningful?

[krishnancom]

MCW is private. Loved the straightforward but well crafted personal statement.

[robinreviews]

Did he get into MD schools? I loved his applications but it was unclear if his acceptances were from 5 DO or a combination of DO and MD schools.

[zeinabsoureyacisse]

Hello Dr. Gray, what do you advise when students combine all shadowing experiences in one section? because I did different shadowing in different places but I want to put them all together.

[LaceyKirchen]

I have a question about the clinical experience ending just before application being a red flag. I am applying this round and I had a student position for a year as a surgery scheduler. Due to it being a student position, when I graduated at the end of April, my position had to end as well because I was at that point no longer a student at the university. Would it be enough that I note in the description that it was a student position and the application shows I graduated that month?

[theindianstallion]

If clinical hours are so important, then how did my ex-colleague who was a student athlete with very little clinical service but worked in a lab for three summers with a high mcat get into an Ivy League med school. Or do Ivy leagues don’t care about service and helping patients