@AAMCtoday This narrative is so harmful. For MANY, especially low SES/URiM, this year was grueling. Applying to medical school is hard, applying to medical school in a pandemic is even harder and I do not wish this on anyone. Tweet added by mitochondrihanna (in dedicated) 🍉 @mitochondrihan4

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@AAMCtoday This narrative is so harmful. For MANY, especially low SES/URiM, this year was grueling. Applying to medical school is hard, applying to medical school in a pandemic is even harder and I do not wish this on anyone.

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“We saw a lot of students who said, ‘You know what? I’m going to apply this year...They saw that health care workers were really at the forefront of trying to solve this. It really lit a fire under people.”

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