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Why can't you reference the CEO of this organization or one of your mentors?I'm the co-owner and technically VP or whatever; my roommate is the CEO officially. Like should I just put his name down as a reference or how does that work?
For what it's worth, I probably have worked the equivalent of a part-time job's worth of hours for about 2 years...so like...many thousands of hours (probably a lot more since I really went into it during the summer).
There are no official logs of these hours or anything except for two programs I did at my undergrad—a "boost" program where we essentially got a mentor and resource management to help facilitate growth, and then a formal accelerator where we got like a boatload of money and more formal, direct help from some more powerful people.
It's health-related and results speak for themselves, but at the same time, I don't know how an AO would perceive me referencing myself and putting down like 3000 hours for some activity.
In my opinion, it's better to list a non-relative as the contact person (whenever possible) for activities such as this. Since the booster and accelerator programs were both integrally related to your organization, why separate them into three activities? Can your contact for the accelerator program speak of your efforts leading up to your partnership? If there truly is no one else inside or outside your organization (co-workers? underlings? staff from your college's student affairs office?) who can objectively attest to your hours, then you have no choice but to list your brother as your contact. He is the supervisor/CEO after all. I struggle to understand how listing yourself in this scenario is any less "weird".Well, the CEO is my brother and roommate and is not in college anymore....is that okay? If that's fine then sure, I was just under the impression that listing someone with my same last name and that was my roommate may be kind of weird (sorry for not clarifying that earlier). Also full clarification,
"CEO" is just what he is legally, it's not like he's working more or is actually doing more than me; we aren't a huge business or anything.
As for the mentors they each only worked with us for a total of 5 months (accelerator: 3 months, boost: 1 month), which is not at all representative of the full timeline, so they could only account for around 30% of the hours I would have listed. Also on the AMCAS application, I list the fellowship and booster as separate activities, so I would still need an actual reference for the organization itself.