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A short little follow-up question on the last post I made concerning my upcoming SMP year. My extracurriculars are mostly up to par in terms of commitment and hours except for non-clinical volunteering, which I have zero of. I was told by some of the adcoms here to take care of this now before beginning my SMP (currently in the process of MCAT study and applying to these SMPs), as I would not have time during my SMP year.
I'm going to begin volunteering at a local food bank next week, but say I volunteer for 2-3 hours a week (pretty much all I have time for) for the rest of the semester, I'm only going to have about 20-30 hours by the time I graduate.
One thing I am heavily considering is the AmeriCorps Summer of Service this summer if anyone is familiar with that. I don't have other plans for my summer and I feel like it would be a good use of my time. The only thing I'm afraid of is that cramming all these hours now and the short-term nature of the AmeriCorps project will look bad. Obviously it isn't ideal that I’m doing it late, but does anyone have any insight into how heavily this will hurt? Many thanks.
I'm going to begin volunteering at a local food bank next week, but say I volunteer for 2-3 hours a week (pretty much all I have time for) for the rest of the semester, I'm only going to have about 20-30 hours by the time I graduate.
One thing I am heavily considering is the AmeriCorps Summer of Service this summer if anyone is familiar with that. I don't have other plans for my summer and I feel like it would be a good use of my time. The only thing I'm afraid of is that cramming all these hours now and the short-term nature of the AmeriCorps project will look bad. Obviously it isn't ideal that I’m doing it late, but does anyone have any insight into how heavily this will hurt? Many thanks.