"Any additional comments" secondary

[Mr. Beefy Lion]

I have read other threads on this and had a specific question.

I was thinking of stating I wasn't aware of the pre-med club at my undergrad university that offers many shadowing and non clinical volunteering experiences. I have only 35 hrs shadowing and 50 hrs non clinical. If I state that I planned on joining this club and participating in these experiences my senior year would it be seen as an excuse or would it benefit my app?

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Members don't see this ad.

 

[efle]

It doesn't work like that, you can't list things you hope/plan to do, only what you've done. I wouldn't put that down in the additional comments 2ndary.

 

[625233]

Don't write that, they'll then double check the areas you mentioned.

 

[Caffein3]

If there was an "additional comments" area, I'd usually check the school thread to see what everyone else or what previously accepted people did.

Depending on what school it is the response could be a lot different. Some people use it to explain their "non-trad"ness, some use it as a "why this school/diversity" prompt, and some just leave it blank. E.g. I left boston's blank but I filled out Jefferson's.

 

[nwts]

I have read other threads on this and had a specific question.

I was thinking of stating I wasn't aware of the pre-med club at my undergrad university that offers many shadowing and non clinical volunteering experiences. I have only 35 hrs shadowing and 50 hrs non clinical. If I state that I planned on joining this club and participating in these experiences my senior year would it be seen as an excuse or would it benefit my app?

I think this would be seen as an excuse. I think adcoms would be thinking: "There are many other ways to get clinical experience than through a pre-med club."

 

[WedgeDawg]

The vast majority of applicants have no reason to write anything in the additional comments box.

 

[Spector1]

I just wrote my diversity essay in there usually

 

[tea guzzling traveler]

Question on this... can I explain a major that I have if the title alone doesn't really convey what it is?

 

[CaliforniaDreamer]

Question on this... can I explain a major that I have if the title alone doesn't really convey what it is?

That seems like a reasonable thing to put, like others have said, I am using the space for adversity/diversity/little bit of "why this school" if there isn't another prompt asking for these things.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Question on this... can I explain a major that I have if the title alone doesn't really convey what it is?

I can almost guarantee you no one will care

 

[WedgeDawg]

That seems like a reasonable thing to put, like others have said, I am using the space for adversity/diversity/little bit of "why this school" if there isn't another prompt asking for these things.

They already know you're interested in the school

 

[CaliforniaDreamer]

They already know you're interested in the school

I threw in one line between the rest of the response saying something like "I would be honored to take that role at XSOM."

 

[PleaseCallMeDoc]

I talked about state ties as an out-of-state applicant to a public institution.

 

[deleted393595]

I have read other threads on this and had a specific question.

I was thinking of stating I wasn't aware of the pre-med club at my undergrad university that offers many shadowing and non clinical volunteering experiences. I have only 35 hrs shadowing and 50 hrs non clinical. If I state that I planned on joining this club and participating in these experiences my senior year would it be seen as an excuse or would it benefit my app?

A really bad excuse, and the impression you might convey is that you are lazy.