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On ERAS, do we have to list an undergraduate institution if we took one or two courses there during a summer or something along those lines? Or do they just want us to list the main institution(s) we've attended prior to medical school?

Thanks

 

[MrBurns10]

I believe we have to list every college we attended at which we recieved credit, so I included my summer school colleges as well.

 

[harmnot]

Since we have to list all the colleges that we attended, do we also have to send our college transcripts or does the med. school send them a copy along with our med school transcript? I don't see why since its our clincial grades that is given the most attention right?

 

[medsRus]

I confirmed with ERAS that we DO NOT have to include all the colleges we attended. It is not mandatory and we CAN include what we want to show programs.

 

[Hassler]

Since we have to list all the colleges that we attended, do we also have to send our college transcripts or does the med. school send them a copy along with our med school transcript? I don't see why since its our clincial grades that is given the most attention right?

We need college transcripts??? I don't see that requirement listed anywhere on ERAS......

 

[Man In White]

I took summer courses (gov/econ bleh) at a community college during high school - went toward my university degree eventually, but didn't list that stuff. Figure no one cares about that.

 

[mcl]

We need college transcripts??? I don't see that requirement listed anywhere on ERAS......

You do not need college transcripts.

In my experience, most people list all of their college coursework --particularly postgraduate coursework even if it doesn't lead to a degree -- because it fills in the time line. I don't care if you took a summer statistics course at a college in your home town while you were an undergradute at another university, but I do care that you took a semester (or year) of medical prerequisites between graduation and the beginning of medical school.

There's nothing more frustrating to me in reading CAFs than unexplained time gaps. Invariably someone on my Selection Committee assumes the worst.

 

[Seville]

Invariably someone on my Selection Committee assumes the worst.

Yep. That's why I added mine to my application. I figure it would be better to put in that coursework than to have someone think I was in jail or sitting around doing nothing.

 

[Man In White]

There's nothing more frustrating to me in reading CAFs than unexplained time gaps. Invariably someone on my Selection Committee assumes the worst.

I hear about this a lot - "explain gaps in chronology," but I don't really see a decent way to do this on ERAS. I was a reapplicant, so I have a 1-year gap during which I did some volunteering/traveling. I couldn't really find an unembarrassing way to say "was not accepted to med school the first time around," so I listed the volunteer experience, but I'm not sure if the committees will recognize it. I mean will the committees see the gap - wonder what I did, then go to the experiences section and notice that I did some volunteering? Seems doubtful. Ah well.

 

[mcl]

will the committees see the gap - wonder what I did, then go to the experiences section and notice that I did some volunteering?

That is exactly what happens. I look for items in the work/research/ volunteer section that fill in any obvious gaps and l list everything on a summary sheet for the Selection Committee. Some members care more than others about what an applicant did, but all of them care that post undergrad time is accounted for in some way.