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[Goro]

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For these questions (gap year, volunteering, health experiences), can we describe by listing (using bullet points)?

As a general question, how formal do secondaries have to be? Clearly, for the obvious questions such as diversity, challenge, failure, why us, I will write in paragraph format. However, I feel like for these "describe" questions, (and others like USF Describe the knowledge, skills, and attributes you have developed in preparation for the career path you have chosen in the previous question), I feel like I can answer the question better (use my word count towards a better cause), by using bullet points and being very concise. Any opinions?
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[LizzyM]

I don't know the technical side of this... can you even do this given the type of portal the school uses for uploading responses to secondary prompts. It will be a disaster if it comes out looking like gibberish.

 

[CyrilFiggis]

Sorry, it appears I was a little unclear. What I meant was just the activities by pressing the "enter" key, and describe it. For example:
Clinical Volunteering: XXXXXX
Research: YYYYY
Shadowing: ZZZZZZ

Don't do that.

 

[LizzyM]

You said bullet points and I wasn't sure if formatting bullets would work.
I can't say I've ever seen this approach.

 

[CyrilFiggis]

Oh really? So for this question "If you have already received your bachelor's degree, please describe what you have been doing since graduation and your plans for the upcoming year.", if I just listed out what I was doing and a brief description like so

Medical volunteering: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Research: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
EMT: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Would that be seen as bad?

Bad? no. Lazy? Maybe.

Just write it out. During the upcoming year I plan to obtain my EMT-B licensing while continuing to volunteer as XYZ Medical Center in the Pediatric Oncology department. I'l also be starting a new position this fall in my research lab having been recently promoted from a volunteer research assistant to a part-time paid position helping to work on a new grant project. In my free time, I'm excited to travel with my family to the Biloxi MS. It's an annual trip my family makes that for the past 2 years I haven't gone on due to other commitments.

It's really not that hard and won't blow up your character count.

 

[Bonne Nuit]

bump. Anyone else list out their EC for emory's secondary vs. paragraph form?

I wrote it in paragraph form. I tried to offer a little insight about what I learned from each experience that wasn't included on my primary.

 

[Bonne Nuit]

Did you write one big paragraph or did you split it up for each activity?

Split it up for each activity. Added a few new insights. This prompt is one of the easier ones you'll receive in this process, don't overthink it too much.

 

[Bonne Nuit]

It is very easy, maybe its because everyone else has only 1 or 2 activities? I have 6, so that uses a lot of words to set up each activity.

Most premeds have more clinical experiences than just 1 or 2. 4-6 is probably about average, since you'll be including shadowing experiences in there, too.

Be concise and you'll be fine.