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Originally Posted by calgaryfan1001
I'm in my second year at the U of C looking into medicine, and after reading this part of your post had a couple of questions I hope you won't mind answering.
What kind of extracurricular activity did your friends have that got in before finishing their degrees? Was it a large amount or just little things here and there?
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I think there are two common extra-curriculars amongst them all:
1) Working in a lab during the summers.
2) Volunteering at the hospital.
When I'm looking at med school applications, pretty much all the applicants have some form of 1 and 2 in their application. Note that these are exclusively people who have completed 4 year undergrad... i've never come across an applicant in the US who is trying to enter early. Every spring I get plenty of undergrad students who apply to work in the lab... they're basically trying to get a recommendation letter and the "worked at lab X" into their application :-)