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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EMS still impresses if you're into pre-med and live in a state where you can do that at 16.

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It should because it's actually useful to society.[/quote]

yes and you've seen people at their lowest, maybe people you don't see in your usual life. and you still want to do medicine. and because it's a system that is rigorous and known. things that are known can verify an app. being a lifeguard in nyc is a good one. working long enough at a restaurant or retail to become a shift manager. winning state championships or ranked nationally in debate. being named all-state in a sport.

we talk about soft and hard skills in job market. if possible get some hard and soft activities into your application..  hard = EMS, state debate champ .. stuff your parents can't fudge.  soft = adds uniqueness and creates the story but is probably a bit opaque.  hard is also your stats, but that's just table stakes. [/quote]

What's the ratio of hard to soft skills needed for a T10 app (assuming this is the same mom posting about her birding kid)?[/quote]

yes, same mom. I don't know ratio but I think you need one major one of both. getting elected to something within your school helps too. it can only be boiled down to two things when your reader brings your file to the table, or so I've read. because it already has where you're from and usually your high school and all of those institutional priorities we don't think about ..  so..

This is Eva .. she's from upstate NY and went to a public school we consider rural. NY state public forum debate champ her junior year. She's interested in our policy program, behavioral economics specifically. She's been involved in her local hawk count since she was 7 and has charted decline of hawks and tied environmental factors impacting group behavior to a study she did in high school with the post-covid free school lunch programs in her town and nutrition. I've put a paragraph from that up on the white board ... you can see. Along with an excerpt from a LOR. 1550 SAT. Elected class vp. Again, rural from a school we haven't had a student from in 4 years.  I think she'd be a great presence in our xyz program.

Then they vote.

There's so much about their own priorities in the discussion, you have to make sure your own sound bite is very clear. [/quote]

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