<p>I'm going to enter 10th grade next year. I've read people who've wrote about sports injuries, Piano competitions, etc. I want to become a Doctor and it scares me because I feel like there's no extracurricular activites related to the Medical field for teens. Also, I'm a very compassionate person. But joining a club at school is not enough. Without a significant experience what will I write in the essay in the future? What are some extracurricular activities you recommend? Thank you very much for the help! I feel so intimidated because people are over here starting non-profit organizations & I'm not sure what to do related to helping people out, or experiencing something in the Medical field. Without a life-changing experience my essay will be a failure.</p>
<p>“Without a life-changing experience my essay will be a failure.” That’s not true at all.</p>
<p>Some of the best advice about writing an essay can be found on Yale’s website: [Advice</a> on Putting Together Your Application | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“Advice on Putting Together Your Application | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>Advice on Putting Together Your Application | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior who wants to major in pre-med! For EC’s relating to medicine, there’s several: I do the Columbia University Science Honors Program for High School Students, which you can do if you live near Columbia. I took Human Physiology classes there. I also did the National Youth Leadership Forum on medicine last summer, which has locations around the US. Try to get an internship in a hospital! Good luck!
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<p>Don’t feel compelled to write an essay about your ECs or what you want to study. You can write about anything that speaks to who you are (as long as it’s not something illegal…). And definitely take a look at what gibby posted. Although I don’t go to Yale, it certainly helped me. It’s applicable to any school really.</p>
<p>liddochris – Does your town have a volunteer EMT program which you can join? Or volunteer at your local hospital. These are great ways to determine if you truly want to go into medicine and are excellent ECs. Am sure great fodder for essay as well. Son wrote about learning to drive a manual drive(stick shift transmission)car. D wrote about heirloom tomatoes. You can turn anything into an essay.</p>
<p>Life-changing experiences required? No. I had a life-changing experience that Harvard got a short supplement on, but I only sent that one to Harvard. I sent these other two to all the other colleges to which I applied (to all of which I was admitted.)</p>
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<li>Thesis: I like words. (That may have been a sentence in it.) Two main examples: (a) I was sad when I started reading street signs and discovered how banal they all were–I thought they were some kind of secret code that had exciting messages for adults. (b) And now I like literature, languages, and history! woo</li>
<li>Thesis: I am adventurous and like challenges and trying new things. Main example: When I was little I liked the adventure of red jelly beans–would it be cherry, my favorite, or the cinnamon, which was so spicy it hurt my mouth???</li>
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<p>Essays that get noticed display some admirable character of the writer. The fact is many many 17 year olds do not possess extraordinary character (by definition) and the ability to convey it in a 500 word essay.</p>
<p>OP: "Without a life-changing experience my essay will be a failure. " – this is just poor analysis. If you don’t step away from this thinking, your shots at selective colleges is dead before you begin. Don’t look for things to do but look at admirable people around you to emulate. You must know: It’s not what the essay topics of successful applicants, but who they were.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>