<p>Do med schools really check whether you really did certain activities during undergrad. yrs. to prevent presentation of false information?
(for example, a student wrote in his/her personal statement that he/she joined a frat. during her freshman yr. My question is whether med. schools check if this is ture or not? - like emailing the club president or phone calling)</p>
<p>Is it worth risking it??
I honestly do not have time for activities</p>
<p>You should assume that they do, and not lie. If you don't have time for activities, then don't say you did them. But I cannot really believe that you don't have time.</p>
<p>I don't think you'd even need to resort to lying about activities... med schools don't really care about nonmedical activities, as far as I know. Only undergraduate schools care about this whole 'well-rounded individual' garbage. :D :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I have to question this as well. If you truly don't have time, do your activities (like volunteering, research) over the summer or winter break. What school do you go to that would not permit you the time to do any EC's?</p>
<p>BTW: I'm sure they're going to quiz you on your EC's during your med school interview. If you wrote that you did research, they'll ask you what you learned. If you wrote that you volunteered at a hospital, they'll want some anecdotes.</p>
<p>Your lies will come back to haunt you during your interviews, because everything you place on your medical school application is fair game during the interviews, and they will see through your lies. What exactly do you do during the day that prevents you from doing any activities? How do you know that the medical route is for you without any real life experiences? Thomaschau, you couldn't be more wrong about the well-roundedness "garbage," as it is now more important than ever if you want to make it into medical school. A person who is only "book-smart," who stays in his dorm all day studying will not get very far compared to one who is both "book-smart" and "street-smart," in the sense that they do have clinical experiences from volunteering, they do have experiences in working w/ children via volunteering/ tutoring (or whatnot), and that they do really know what they are doing and what they are getting themselves into because they've gone out into the real world.</p>
<p>BTW, medical activities don't even comprise of half the list of desired extra-curricular activities listed on the AMCAS application (about I'd say 4-5 out of the list of 13 categories). And if you'd only be able to fill 2-3 (just about a sure-fire rejection), I'd say don't even waste your money in applying to medical school and just take a fifth year in college taking some laid back classes so you can actually get involved in the world around you outside your college dorm.</p>
<p>ACTUALLY....
The definition of my EC excludes volunteering and research. More like frats, science club, sports club, chess club, etc.</p>
<p>If you write them on your application, and they are not true, you are messing up every other applicant who actually made sacrifices and was honest in preparing their application. It's not all about you. If you didn't do it, DON'T say you did. It's that easy.</p>
<p>The very fact that you would consider doing this makes me question your judgement. Seriously, the type of person who would lie on their application really isn't the type of person I want being my doctor.</p>
<p>In all actuality jenskate1, they're only screwing themselves up, because they WILL be caught either by the time they get interviewed or during their interview (if these type of people make it that far, that is). If you were to lie about the frats you joined, you can probably place your lie in the other section of the EC part of the apps, and your lies about science club and sports club etc could would go in the hobbies/avocations section. Theres honestly no reason as to why you should lie on your application, but if you wish to waste your four years of undergrad, go right on ahead, but seriously reconsider what you want to do with your life, because if integrity and hard work is something you lack, a change in career plan is in order.</p>