Extracurricular/Voluteer/Community Service Question

[SoCalDent]

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For those of you who applied last cycle, I am wondering to what extent do you put volunteer/service activities in that section of the application. I don't know if I should feel silly putting down that I volunteered at for 4 hours one saturday etc. Is that too superficial? Should I just put everything down I have ever done. there is not really any answers in the FAQ section. Thanks.

 

[Regmata]

I think I put the bs things I did down...but that is because i didnt have much volunteer/community service.

If it was completely irrelevant I may have left it out...it is a pain finding all the dates.

 

[superfinger45]

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[snowy117]

I think you should too...
When I was being interviewed at NYU, the interviewer asked me about basically every single one of my volunteer/community experience.
As long as you can say that you learned something from it, I think you should put it on your application.

 

[xdianaax]

Wait I'm confused, what do you guys mean? I volunteered in some shelters and stuff, but I couldn't tell you when...should I still list it, it was for a weekend each or something...😕

 

[SoCalDent]

dianna, I would definitely put that down. Just come up with something close to the dates. I was wondering more for things like 2 hours at this shelter, or 3 hours at special olympics etc.