A couple of application questions

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sassyfrass

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I'm filling out my AADSAS application and I have a couple of questions that I thought you guys might be able to answer for me since I couldn't get a hold of the AADSAS application people through the phone today.

1) I was a teaching assistant for a biology lab class for a semester, but I took it for course credit instead of for pay. I saw somewhere on here that it was considered a no-no to list this under work experience since it was done for credit. I mention it in my personal statement, but I'd love to be able to stick it in my application somewhere, if possible. Where (if anywhere) could I put it within my application?

2) I volunteered quite a bit through an honor club through my university, but only for a few hours at TONS of different places, so that I can't fit all of them within the 10- experience limit volunteering portion of the application. These would really help to bring up the total amount of volunteer hours on my application (without them, I have only 75-80 hours). Can I just say in the description of the club the number of hours that I volunteered with them, or will that not count towards the total number of volunteer hours listed on my application?

3) This is probably a very stupid question, but it would look even more stupid if I messed this part up on my application, so here it goes. Under the dentistry/shadowing experience section of the application, there is a category called "Position title". Is that refering to the dentist's title (so I'd just put... "Dentist"?) or my shadowing title ("Undergraduate Shadower")?
 
2. Put the volunteer experience down as "Honor Club Volunteer" and explain that it was a service organization that helped at multiple events over the years.
 
Thank you for your response! I settled, as you suggested, on explaining what the club did for the community and the university and mentioned that I volunteered there for a total of ** hours. I hope that's enough.

Anyone have any idea what the answers to my other questions might be?
 
I was a TA as well, I put it under work experience, cause there wasn't enough spots in the volunteer section. If you have a spot open in the volunteer section, put it there.
I believe it's your position title, not the dentist.
 
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