Extracurricular hours in the context of gap years

[PreMed2006]

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Adcoms, here is one interesting question.

When you look at the research output (total hours and publications), clinical hours, non clinical volunteering hours etc. , do you take the number of gap years (0, 1, 2 etc) as the context or just look at the raw numbers? Is there any significant gain as the number of gap years increases?

Thank you

 

[Mr.Smile12]

40 hours a week for 50 weeks (roughly 1 year discounting holidays) is 2000 hours for full-time work. So the answer is that we look at the raw numbers in context.

 

[LunaOri]

We expect the number of hours to continue to accrue during your gap years. We don’t expect a traditional applicant to have as many hours as someone who has been out of school for a couple of years