Didn't describe my activities in AMCAS :/

[JustinD]

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Hey guys.

Applying to med school this cycle with a 3.95 and 30.

I submitted secondaries to 20 or so low tier schools and some DO's in august. I got rejected so far from rosalind frankline and also oakland beaumont in michigan.

An advisor looked over my app today and noticed my work and activities was great, but I never wrote in the description what I learned from it. I literally just described what my job was (for example for the homeless shelter I just wrote my description of my volunteering).

Is this something I need to send to medical schools a PDF describing my mistake and writing a small blip for each of my activities about what I learned?
Thanks.

 

[sharkbyte]

AMCAS allows you to mark up to 3 activities that are "most meaningful to you" and gives you I believe an extra 1300 characters or so for each one to explain why, did you do that? If not I don't think changes can be made to AMCAS after submitting; I think you can only add schools and LORs.

As far as sending a PDF to schools, I think adcoms would be able to answer this better @gyngyn @Goro

 

[JustinD]

I selected 2 meaningful activities and definitely expanded on what I learned from those. But the rest of the activities that I didn't check were meaningful I did not.

 

[ssggs]

My Premed advisor explicitly told us to only write down the things we did. She recommended writing the section in "Resume-style" too... Should I be worry? O.O

 

[gyngyn]

An advisor looked over my app today and noticed my work and activities was great, but I never wrote in the description what I learned from it. I literally just described what my job was (for example for the homeless shelter I just wrote my description of my volunteering).
Is this something I need to send to medical schools a PDF describing my mistake and writing a small blip for each of my activities about what I learned?
Thanks.

This is not likely to be of much use.

 

[Catalystik]

I selected 2 meaningful activities and definitely expanded on what I learned from those. But the rest of the activities that I didn't check were meaningful I did not.

My Premed advisor explicitly told us to only write down the things we did. She recommended writing the section in "Resume-style" too... Should I be worry? O.O

-Many activities don't lend themselves to this type of introspection.
-Sometimes "what you learned" isn't going to enhance your application if you tell the truth.
-Other applicants don't generally have room to include it anyways, in the limited space allowed. Or they emphasized that component more in the PS.
-If you did a thorough job on your Most Meaningful essays, there's a decent chance that your failure to include "impact" in the other Work/Activities entries won't be missed. (This would be true, also, if resume style was used). JMO.

 

[ruedjgtc]

My Premed advisor explicitly told us to only write down the things we did. She recommended writing the section in "Resume-style" too... Should I be worry? O.O

Resume style is rather vague, also it's hard to tell how 'incomplete' your entries were. Other than the most meaningful entries, I don't remember trying to make every other entry a pseudo most memorable entry. But, it's really hard to say because what I or someone else consider abbreviated may not be congruent. In general, you're trying to stand out but not for negative reasons. Hope some adcom has better info for you this cycle, though nothing can be changed at this point. If you have to re-apply just be sure to have someone who actually got into medical school check your application — but, I hope this mishap is just something you get to laugh about later after being accepted this cycle, good luck!

 

[Glazedonutlove]

I don't think you need to write what you learned in the small space. I only did in the most meaningful activities. I highly doubt that is the reason you were rejected. Rosalind rejects a lot of people. Don't get hung up on that.

 

[ssggs]

Resume style is rather vague, also it's hard to tell how 'incomplete' your entries were. Other than the most meaningful entries, I don't remember trying to make every other entry a pseudo most memorable entry. But, it's really hard to say because what I or someone else consider abbreviated may not be congruent. In general, you're trying to stand out but not for negative reasons. Hope some adcom has better info for you this cycle, though nothing can be changed at this point. If you have to re-apply just be sure to have someone who actually got into medical school check your application — but, I hope this mishap is just something you get to laugh about later after being accepted this cycle, good luck!

Thanks! I did elaborate on my most meaningful activities so I think I should be okay. And sorry OP for hijacking your thread!