EC's - Can you specify weekend vs weekday volunteering on AMCAS?

[wannagotoFlorida!!]

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For some semesters where i had heavier volunteering, I was able to do as many as i did per week because i would spread them out on weekends and weekdays. For one of my "heavier semester", i did 1.5h - 2h/week on weekdays for a program, and then 4h volunteering on weekends.

Is there anything on the AMCAS app where I can specify days of the week? Idk how true this is but i read on a Reddit thread that an interviewer grilled one applicant on his volunteering because they thought it was too heavy to be true even though he provided proper contacts. He basically spread them out over weekends and weekdays as well. Just wondering if I can somehow specify this on the AMCAS app

 

[Moko]

For some semesters where i had heavier volunteering, I was able to do as many as i did per week because i would spread them out on weekends and weekdays. For one of my "heavier semester", i did 1.5h - 2h/week on weekdays for a program, and then 4h volunteering on weekends.

Is there anything on the AMCAS app where I can specify days of the week? Idk how true this is but i read on a Reddit thread that an interviewer grilled one applicant on his volunteering because they thought it was too heavy to be true even though he provided proper contacts. He basically spread them out over weekends and weekdays as well. Just wondering if I can somehow specify this on the AMCAS app

You are really overthinking this. Based on the hours you listed in your other thread, you are nowhere near being "too heavy to be true".

 

[wannagotoFlorida!!]

You are really overthinking this. Based on the hours you listed in your other thread, you are nowhere near being "too heavy to be true".

Thank you, guess the neuroticism is taking over

 

[KnightDoc]

You are really overthinking this. Based on the hours you listed in your other thread, you are nowhere near being "too heavy to be true".

This^^^^^. The time and place to bust chops, if it's going to happen at all, would be during an interview. Nobody reading your application is going to care enough about the distribution of your EC hours to ask you to specify days of the week. 😎 The application is an overview of 3+ years of your life. It is not meant to be a bi-weekly timesheet.

 

[Catalystik]

For some semesters where i had heavier volunteering, I was able to do as many as i did per week because i would spread them out on weekends and weekdays. For one of my "heavier semester", i did 1.5h - 2h/week on weekdays for a program, and then 4h volunteering on weekends.

Is there anything on the AMCAS app where I can specify days of the week? Idk how true this is but i read on a Reddit thread that an interviewer grilled one applicant on his volunteering because they thought it was too heavy to be true even though he provided proper contacts. He basically spread them out over weekends and weekdays as well. Just wondering if I can somehow specify this on the AMCAS app

While you could explain anything you like in the narrative space provided for each activity, you would be wasting characters by going into that level of detail when they'd be better used describing the activity, your role, and its impact, etc.