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I am currently completing the application for Osteopathic Medical schools and was wondering about the structure to use for the answer to the two questions asked: 1. internship, clubs, etc. 2. Honors, awards, etc.

Does there need to be a certain structure in your answer with bullet form and explanation, or is it left up to the opinion of the applicant? Just wondering and thanks for any info!

future doc

 

[got-it]

I am currently completing the application for Osteopathic Medical schools and was wondering about the structure to use for the answer to the two questions asked: 1. internship, clubs, etc. 2. Honors, awards, etc.

Does there need to be a certain structure in your answer with bullet form and explanation, or is it left up to the opinion of the applicant? Just wondering and thanks for any info!

future doc

I took the structured approach...when you print it out it will not show, but it appears on the offical app sent to the school. It look much more professional. My two bits of infor on applications is make it short, sweet, and easy to digest by the ad coms....I had too much stuff for all these catagories, but I made it as easy to read, and sent a copy of my cv ahead of my application as a heads up to the adcoms...a kinda' teaser...it worked great. It opened a line of communications before an applicaiton hit their hands and it put me ahead of somone who may have had better numbers, since my experience whet the ad com's curiosity...but this last bit is just conjecture. good luck and remember, pray if you believe so...

 

[RyanS32122]

Hey:
I was actually wondering about this. I am in the process of filling out the AACOMAS application, and I have filled in the PS/Honors/Internships, etc., fields, but when you request the 'on-screen print,' the text is all jumbled together, and, frankly, it looks like hell this way.

Is there a way to bullet the text in an orderly manner? Or if not bullet, manke it appear at least presentable?

Also, as a side note, I did not have enough room to list all of my honors/jobs, etc., so I abbreviated on the descriptions. Do you think like one phrase describing the research scope following a title such as "Polymer Chemistry Research" is sufficient?

Thanks for your time.

Ryan.

 

[kaikai128]

I don't think that I gave many long descriptions on my AACOM application (but I do tihnk that I may have included a time frame). Most of the secondaries ask for anything of importance over again anyways. At secondary time, you can talk up whatever was the most significant.

In the end, I found it to be of no use to do much formatting on my application. I did leave a hard return in between honors and the questions of that sort (just in case it showed up differently after it was sent to schools), but I know my essay had ZERO formatting in it because I was right at the max character allowence. It is going to look bad when you print it out, but there is no way around it. Everyone else's will look just as bad as yours does.

 

[JohnDO]

I didn't give long descriptions on AACOMAS either. In fact, I don't even think I described anything on the primary, but I'm not positive. I think I just put "Blah Blah Student Mentor - 200X-200Y", etc. Schools will find out all they want to know through the secondaries/interviews.

You'll never get it formatted like you want. My essay ended up looking like crap. I really had to squeeze to meet that darn character limit.

Good luck to you!