I don’t think anyone here can answer your question. To ask a hypothetical (ie what “if” this, what “if” that), get some answer, and walk away relying that the answer received will actually apply to any one, much less all med schools is silly. The problem with hypotheticals is if you change/add one fact, you can get a totally different answer. Furthermore your hypothetical includes the vagueness of “….but conduct research.” What does that mean/include? To play musical chairs hypotheticals, med school edition, as to how any one adcom/med school will react to any hypothetical or changed hypotheticals you pose is really unanswerable.