Leadership positions?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I am currently a sophomore undergraduate and a biochemistry major. So I hear that having leadership positions (president of ----, secretary of ----, etc) during undergraduate has a lot of impact in your application to medschool. I am currently a 4.0 student but I am lacking leadership positions or anything strongly involved with my university. For example, I am currently a volunteer for the admission council as an overnight host for prospective students but I don't have anything substantial like some of my friends that are president of ----- or treasurer of ------.
I'm mostly a person that involved with things OUTSIDE of my school. For example, I am very involved with volunteering outside of my university, I run my own small business in which I write music for video games & independent film, and I am an accomplished pianist and won a competition at an international level during my freshman year of undergrad.</p>

<p>My question is, taking into consideration my gpa and my major extracurricular activities above, how important is having some kind of leadership position, and if I don't have any substantial leadership position then how much will it hurt my chance to medschool? THanks!</p>

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<p>Do what you do. Do it as well as you can. Write about it with passion. Present yourself uniquely. Show them who you are. They'll either like that...or they won't. A laundry list "secretary of some club" ain't gonna thrill anybody but your business, piano, volunteering just might. You sound interesting to me. ;)</p>

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<p>Leadership is important...but the idea is that you're taking extra responsibility in organizations that you are already involved in because it's important to you. Just joining organizations to take a leadership position is not worthwhile. That said, it certainly doesn't hurt to look around your university and see if there are organizations you're interested in. Check them out, go to a meeting, who knows what might happen from there.</p>