<p>say you are a recruited athlete, one of the best in the country at your sport, national awards, have trophies that are bigger than you and all that stuff. would that be an advantage when applying to bs/md programs such as plme, hpme, rice/baylor and other ones like that, assuming your also academically qualified (great sat's, nice ranking and medically related ec's ). at first, my thinking was somewhere along the lines "of course its an advantage you idiot, YOUR A SMART RECRUITED ATHLETE!!!" but now im starting to think that since it's the medical schools who make the decisions on who gets into the programs, that they dont care whether or not you are an athlete. i believe it will definitely help to get you into the college (in this case rice, brown, and northwestern), but not necessarily the bs/md program. is there anyone out there with any knowledge in this are?</p>
<p>If you're that good at your sport, why don't you go pro?</p>
<p>its not something where people you usually go pro. its great and i wanna continue with it in college, but after that im not sure. sorry if my first post came off as a bit arrogant. is there anybody who knows if this is an advantage or not?</p>
<p>Why don't you just apply and see what happens?</p>
<p>what sport?
and im sure med schools would love seeing applicants who played collegiate athletics and now is pursuing a career in medicine(am i wrong)?</p>
<p>I think they'd look at it as a good sign of a well rounded student who has discipline and is dedicated to something, but don't rely on it to much. They care more about Medical EC's, and your test scores and grades have to be more than good to really pursue this track. Apply anyway though and see where it takes you.</p>
<p>I know a guy was in one of the US Olympic teams, he got in Harvard Med with so so stats.</p>
<p>^thats nice to know. im also a urm (hispanic) so i hope that helps somewhat. thanks to all you for answering</p>
<p>what about a URM and DI or DIII athlete combined w/ so so stats?
do u think that will be a boost??</p>