How would a student interested in Pre-Med, African American Studies or Native American Studies stand out to top colleges?
Have you done significant work in any of these fields to show a long history of commitment in either African American or Native American studies?? If not, the major you select really won’t matter. At most colleges you will be accepted to the school of arts and sciences and admissions officers are fully aware that you are free to switch your major once accepted.
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@happy1 I have done a significant amount of work in all of these fields.
I am co-founder and vice-president of Black Student Union (We recently held a peaceful protest).
I am in the Ron Brown Guided Pathway Support Program.
I am a WeRNative Ambassador.
I am vice president of Native American Club and President of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES).
I am in the Oklahoma Indian Honor Society.
I competed in a pageant last year to become a native princess; I won Miss Congeniality and 1st Runner Up.
This summer I as one of the 25 native student in the nation selected to go on a 10-day all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. for an intense medical workshop.
I am President of a medical club at a local hospital.
I am vice president of my school’s Pre Med Society.
This past summer (sophomore year), I did lab research at a local med school. I will probably do it again this upcoming summer.
I shadow a surgeon.
I do volunteer work at a local hospital and I help plan all of my school’s blood drives.
I also am a Counselor-In-Training for a camp hosted for children who had or have incarcerated parent(s).
I have other EC’s like Mock Trial, etc. Those are the only one’s relevant to Medicine/AAS/NAS.
Hooks: First-Generation, low income, Underrepresented minority interested in medicine/STEM, american indian, african american, incarcerated parent