It is NOT true. You can use each category as often as needed, though when there is a choice, you have the option of picking the one that best balances your application.
No one will care about the HS jobs, so don't list one that didn't carry through into the college years. The others could be grouped into one, two, or three, spots, or up to as many jobs as you had, depending on the room you have left. There is no one right way to do this. You could divide them by summer jobs and academic year jobs, or by most recent and long ago, or by full-time and part-time, or by job category.
Yes. Be specific about the responsibilities you took on. Anything unusual gets you double points toward being memorable.
Yes, that would be fine.
Since you only need to provide one contact if you list the activity under the umbrella organization, it's a good idea to do this, so as to save space. Listing it as you've demonstrated would be fine, though including the actual name of many of the organizations would be nice to see, along with a related sentence if there might have been particular impact from some.
It depends on what you did, if you got paid, etc, but often these experiences are multifaceted and belong best under "Other." If one subcomponent is particularly important or needs to be highlighted, you can split it out with its related hours and list it on its own, like Research if you haven't any other. Or shadowing, if you have other shadowing experiences to list (which also goes under "Other") and you want to keep them together.
It's perfectly fine to mix and match the styles, as seems best suited to getting across what you wish to convey.
1) The design project awards are worth listing. The deans list recognitions are not worth listing on their own (your grades are evident from your transcript, and schools vary too much in their criteria), but you can slip them into the end of discussing the projects if there's space left.
1) It depends on if the jobs were contiguous, spaced out, only in the summer, only in the academic year, etc. See my response from 7:47 pm yesterday and see if it helps: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=12629222&postcount=1360 . This might help, too: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=12621490&postcount=1318
Try a different browser. This has been a problem since last year at least.
Do you have any other short term activities you can group this with (or any other related activities, for that matter)? I would be hesitant about using a whole entry for 15 hours
1) Maybe take out the two fellowships, listing them on their own under Awards/Honors, with the more prestigious one in the header. The Research activity can have its own space also. And the Posters/Presentations (if at leat one was given at an off-campus event) could be grouped in their own space, too.
I suggest you consider not filling in the hours per week in the header, then giving the two date spans in the narrative with, one being Jan 2012-May 2012 and the other June 2012 to Present (or you can give the definite end date if known), with their varying hours per week.
Not a problem. Some adcomms don't like the availability of all that extra space, and feel that filling it rarely adds much. Being able to say the important things, but remaining succinct is a gift.
It doesn't matter how you enter them. Med schools can resort the activities in various ways, and you have no control over that.
If you were a student, maybe you could use your program director/coordinator as the contact for all of them. Then it would be fine to omit individual physician locations and contact info. So long as their name, specialty, and general whereabouts are apparent from the application, they could theoretically be tracked down via an internet search anyway.
1) You would use Conferences Attended when you were present solely for educational purposes and not presenting anything. Poster/Presentation can be used whether you attend the conference or not, so long as your name is on a poster/abstract as an author, though if you did not attend you should make it clear that someone else did the presentation.
1) You could mention the fact that you were awarded the prestigious internship under Award/Honors, and the criteria for selection, but to discuss what it entailed, what you learned, etc, would be less than ideal.
Um you aren't even in college yet.... What sort of an activity are you talking about? Look at the options in the FAQ
Lets say you start volunteering for a student teaching group (2 years) and work your way up to the leader of the group (5 months). Would you designate where the ec stopped being volunteering and started being leadership?
You would either create two separate entries, one for nonmedical community service and one for leadership, (if you were a little desperate IMO) or you would just use one entry as nonmedical community service and talk about the change in the description and title of the entry
What is the specific specialty of the year's-long experience? Were the two Brigade IM docs from the US? How many hours were you in their presence?
