filling out AMCAS

[Rugger81]

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

for Post-secondary experiences:

what kind of description are they looking for? short and sweet? detailed? strictly facts or more a sense of how we "felt" about this experience?

Also, what if there is no real "Contact Info"? Is this stuff required for every experience?

For course work:

do we enter the units/credits EXACTLY as they are on the transcript? or do we convert ourselves? (my college used units, 1 unit = 4.0 credit hours)


Also, anyone know about how long it will take to be verified if it is submitted the middle of next week (read: after MCAT scores posted and everyone is online doing it)

Thanks.

 

[Ames980]

i second all of these questions.....
my PS experiences are currently all written more resume-esque than anything touchy feely, but should we take the time there to go into what we got out of the experience?

for the contact info -- personally i did a lot of volunteer work under one umbrella organization at school, so i used the faculty head as the contact person [not that he would necessarily remember me and what groups i was a member of, but i doubt they'll be ringing them up...]

 

[Premedtomed]

i second all of these questions.....
my PS experiences are currently all written more resume-esque than anything touchy feely, but should we take the time there to go into what we got out of the experience?

for the contact info -- personally i did a lot of volunteer work under one umbrella organization at school, so i used the faculty head as the contact person [not that he would necessarily remember me and what groups i was a member of, but i doubt they'll be ringing them up...]

I am in the same boat, I chose to describe my experience in essay form as the max. limit is 510 characters. It's not very professional, I know.
So I'm bit confused as well 😕

 

[Ames980]

I am in the same boat, I chose to describe my experience in essay form as the max. limit is 510 characters. It's not very professional, I know.
So I'm bit confused as well 😕

Part of me feels like it should be more *professional* as in the interview they can ask you about the experience more, and you can discuss it at that time, but at the same time - they want to see that you are interesting and mature yadda yadda yadda at the point of the application to get you to the interview..... hm?

 

[BaLeavaMD]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

for Post-secondary experiences:

what kind of description are they looking for? short and sweet? detailed? strictly facts or more a sense of how we "felt" about this experience?

Also, what if there is no real "Contact Info"? Is this stuff required for every experience?

For course work:

do we enter the units/credits EXACTLY as they are on the transcript? or do we convert ourselves? (my college used units, 1 unit = 4.0 credit hours)


Also, anyone know about how long it will take to be verified if it is submitted the middle of next week (read: after MCAT scores posted and everyone is online doing it)

Thanks.

Yes, you enter the EXACT thing that's on the transcript. If not, they'll give you a little "X" meaning they had to correct it!
It may take a little longer next week because EVERYBODY will be trying to send in apps. I sent mine on June 2 and it was done by June 7...so I don't know!
In my experiences section, I described the experience and what I learned from the experience...in paragraph form. You may want to call the school and ask how they would LIKE to see it...I did that and they told me that they have never seen one in bullet form or anyway besides paragraph form, but it doesn't matter!
No...you don't have to put contact info on it!

 

[DieselPetrolGrl]

mine are ..as if i was telling them my role...more interviewish/casual than resume

 

[nina512]

I was reading the examkrackers forum where questions are answered by Judy Levine (a real adcom). She said that she wanted to know the EC info in addition to what you learned, what you gained, and the personal significance. I know it's a lot to write in 500 characters, but that was her point of view.

Nina

 

[AlternateSome1]

I wrote mine out like a resume. I explained what the experience was without getting personal. The way I saw it was, if they wanted to know more, they could ask about it at the interview.