Transcript Extracurricular Activities

Good grades and MCAT scores might
get you pass the screening, but you
must also consider…
The Importance of
ExtraCurricular Activities
Good Reasons for Getting Involved
• Allows you to develop
personal interests outside
of class
• Brings together people
from different majors/
levels of education
• Demonstrates you’re a
well –rounded individual
• Provides chance to serve
the community
• Confirms to yourself that
there is more to
education than just class
• Exposes you to health/
medically – related
project(s)
Activities/ Organizations to Consider
•
Activities in which you are genuinely interested
•
Organizations that allow you to use your talents
•
Outreach activities that acquaint you to community issues
•
Health or medically oriented programs/projects that provide or
reinforce reasons for wanting to become a physician
•
Activities that allow you to add to your sense of self
Bad Reasons for Getting Involved
• Seeking a way to make
yourself look good on your
resumé
• Participating only, because
you think that it will "get
you into med school“
• Joining a club, because
everyone else is doing it
Activities/ Organizations That We Were
Involved In
Rutgers Liberated Gospel Choir
Advancement Via Individual
Determination (AVID) High School
Mentoring Program
Minority Association of Pre-Health
Students (MAPS)
Rutgers Queen’s
Chorale
Undergraduate
Research (UPENN)
KT Productions
Community Theatre
Activities/ Organizations That We Were
Involved In
Student Acting Experience
Health Advocacy
Internship
Student National Medical Assoc
Conference
Varsity Track and Field
Minority Assoc of Pre-health
Students
Activities/ Organizations That We Were
Involved In
Alpha Phi Alpha
High
School Community Service
Car wash for Morehouse
Health Careers Society
Summer Pre-med Enrichment
Program at UPenn
Northwestern CURE
summer research program
Probate Show for Alpha Phi Alpha
(I’m #5)
Activities/ Organizations That We Were
Involved In
Impact Movement
Black Student League
New Spirit of Penn Gospel Choir
Sphinx Senior Society
Onyx Senior Honor Society
SUMR
Contact Information
2008 Contributors:
Ruben Alexander
[email protected]
Mawusi Arnett
[email protected]
Laury Rosefort
[email protected]
2009 Contributors:
Darryl Powell
[email protected]
Laury Rosefort
[email protected]
Questions??