Extracurricular Activities for an Ivy League School

You can’t do this in undergraduate school. Medical school is a professional school course of study you do after undergrad.

Any ECs you do in high school won’t matter one bit in terms of medical school admissions.

Your goal now is to get yourself into an undergrad school that you like, that is affordable, and where you have a decent chance of being accepted. So start looking for colleges like this.

You definitely need some sure things for admission that you like, that are affordable on your college application list.

Frankly…that’s a lot more important than anything else. You can take the required courses for medical school applicants at just about any four year college in this country, arts conservatories excluded.

I’m linking a thread here now that you need to read. The reason is…you need to think outside of elite schools. The student in this thread was a NMF, class Val, had great ECs he was passionate about, excellent LORs. No one expected him to be rejected from every college to which he applied as a high school senior, but that’s what happened. He did a great gap year and landed well on his feet, but the end of his high school senior year was awful between many rejections, waitlist work, and final rejections.

Read this whole thread. And it also shows…no matter how strong you think you look…it might not work out the way you want. So…do things you enjoy, have an open mind about college options…

ETA…this post was intended for MWWB….

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