We have gotten messages from students who want to take a gap year asking for our recommendations regarding what they can do during the gap year. We usually tell them that it all depends on what they want to achieve.
You can evaluate the best way to go about your gap year by taking into account the things you need to fix on your resume, checking if a specific option certainly tackles it. If not, you will have nothing to add to your application, rendering your gap year useless.
In our next blog posts, we will discuss some gap year options that are very popular. Note that you can go for some gap year options at the same time.
It is optional to take a gap year before applying to medical school. Before you decide, see if you have any issues to fix on your application. The gap year will give you the chance to fix those issues.
Understand that there are no outstanding gap year experiences. This means that you should, first of all, think about how you can improve your application before considering what to do during your gap year. Each student has to decide whether a gap year is good for them or not.
Whether or not the options available to you are specifically discussed in this guide, our hope is that there is now a framework you can use to correctly evaluate them. If you make good use of your gap year, your chances of gaining admission in the next admission cycle will greatly improve.
Talk to a medical school admissions consulting about what to do in your gap year.