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Good grades and MCAT scores Good grades and MCAT scores might get you pass the screening, might get you pass the screening, but you must also consider…but you must also consider…
Good Reasons for Getting InvolvedGood Reasons for Getting Involved
• Allows you to develop personal interests outside of class
• Demonstrates you’re a
well –rounded individual • Confirms to yourself that
there is more to education than just class
• Brings together people
from different majors/ levels of education
• Provides chance to serve
the community
• Exposes you to health/ medically – related project(s)
Activities/ Organizations to Consider
• Activities in which you are genuinely interested • Organizations that allow you to use your talents
• Outreach activities that acquaint you to community issues
• Health or medically oriented programs/projects that provide or reinforce reasons for wanting to become a physician
• Activities that allow you to add to your sense of self
Bad Reasons for Getting Involved
• Seeking a way to make yourself look good on your resumé
• Participating only, because you think that it will "get you into med school“
• Joining a club, because
everyone else is doing it
Tigers ChoraleTigers Chorale
High School Mentoring ProgramHigh School Mentoring Program
Memphis Gospel ChoirMemphis Gospel Choir Association of Pre-Health StudentsAssociation of Pre-Health Students
Undergraduate Undergraduate ResearchResearch
Memphis Productions Memphis Productions Community TheatreCommunity Theatre
Student Acting ExperienceStudent Acting ExperienceVarsity Track and FieldVarsity Track and Field
Student National Student National Medical Association Medical Association
ConferenceConference
Art Student League
Science Senior Society
Impact Movement
Memphis Tiger Green Society
If you need further Information
Contact the Coordinator:
Begoña Chapatte-Ramos
Email: [email protected]
If you need further Information
Contact the Coordinator:
Begoña Chapatte-Ramos
Email: [email protected]
