I am having trouble figuring out how to enter a hobby into the AMCAS work/activities section, particularly with the "Start/End dates" and hours.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
Adcomms are more interested in what you've done recently. You could just enter the estimated hours since HS graduation. Or you could use the Repeated feature and add more timeframes (to show dedication to a sport or music, eg), divided out by the HS years and even further by adding the childhood years before that. All the timeframes you choose to include will appear above the narrative box, each with their own estimated hours. If providing a fair estimation is difficult, you might instead insert a 99, 999, or 9999 to indicate the number of hours involved is too high to matter. Or, as mentioned put in a 0 or 1, because it doesn't matter.I am having trouble figuring out how to enter a hobby into the AMCAS work/activities section, particularly with the "Start/End dates" and hours.
Any suggestions?
Adcomms are more interested in what you've done recently. You could just enter the estimated hours since HS graduation. Or you could use the Repeated feature and add more timeframes (to show dedication to a sport or music, eg), divided out by the HS years and even further by adding the childhood years before that. All the timeframes you choose to include will appear above the narrative box, each with their own estimated hours. If providing a fair estimation is difficult, you might instead insert a 999 or 9999 to indicate the number of hours involved is too high to matter. Or, as mentioned put in a 0 or 1, because it doesn't matter.
Also, Hobbies don't require a Contact to be provided.
If you want to add future hours up until the time of med school matriculation, you might add a fourth timeframe and Total Hours above what I suggested above. I am not suggesting any exaggeration; you would be amazed at some folks' estimates of music and sport invovement over a multi-year span. Perhaps a 99 would be appropriate for a 14 month span.What should we put for the date range? Should this also be exaggerated? I'm having trouble figuring out what the end date for my hobbies should be...is it the date at expected matriculation?
If you want to add future hours up until the time of med school matriculation, you might add a fourth timeframe and Total Hours above what I suggested above. I am not suggesting any exaggeration; you would be amazed at some folks' estimates of music and sport invovement over a multi-year span. Perhaps a 99 would be appropriate for a 14 month span.