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Can we put prestigious awards and hospital/shadowing/research experience from high school on our and CVs/resumes? Or is only college considered acceptable?
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just college and beyond unless you continued something since high school into your college years.
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If you mean on your resume/cv, before you apply to med school - sure, why not.
In your med school app, normally you feature activities and accomplishments from your college years. Even so, I would personally continue to list REALLY significant awards from high school, like a high placement in one of the national Intel competitions or a state-wide science fair or things similar.
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It's for my resume/CV for recommendation letters. In high school I won state scholarship awards and some competitions so I will probably include those. Can I include high school hospital volunteering too (300+ hours)? Or is that a "no-no" because it hasn't been recent enough.
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in my opinion.....
if you are a freshman then include it all.
if you are a sophomore then it can go either way and you might want to include it all if your resume looks otherwise unimpressive.
if you are a junior or senior and/or this is a for a recommendation for med school applications then you should only include the prestigious awards and leave everything else out. You don't want the letter writer to focus on stuff you did in high school instead of more recent and more relevant accomplishments.
if you are a freshman then include it all.
if you are a sophomore then it can go either way and you might want to include it all if your resume looks otherwise unimpressive.
if you are a junior or senior and/or this is a for a recommendation for med school applications then you should only include the prestigious awards and leave everything else out. You don't want the letter writer to focus on stuff you did in high school instead of more recent and more relevant accomplishments.
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If it is VERY valuable and you're an underclassmen, then sure. If I got a resume from an upperclassmen w/ stuff from HS, I'd probably laugh. I might still interview the person if I had time but one would have some proving oneself to do. Listing HS activities when you've been in college a few years would make me wonder why you haven't done anything more significant since then.
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A CV is a list of someone's qualifications throughout life. Last time I checked life doesn't start at age 18. This is a CV question not an AMCAS med school application activities question. There's no reason to exclude from the CV a prestigious award given within the last few years solely based on not being 18 at the time
