How is the Activities section of AMCAS evaluated at your school?

[Gauss44]

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I would like to find out how ADCOMs evaluate the Activities section of AMCAS? This will influence how I fill it out.

One of many decisions I'm making is whether to include long lists of my over 15 part time paid positions in the description box, or rather just mention that there were 15, give an example of what I did and what I learned from it. My examples will (hopefully) depend on what ADCOMs look for, if I can figure that out.

EDIT: I wish I could edit the title. Now I wish that I asked, "What are some ways that medical schools evaluate the Activities Section...

 

[LizzyM]

They may be looking for experiences in specific categories such as "what you did during summer", "times when you demonstrated working as part of a team", "employment during the academic year", "fun".

They may look at how much time you spent in a given school term on work to support yourself, or varsity sports, or other activities that took away from your academics or ability to serve others during that time.

There are 1,000 different ways to do this and no single one is the "right way".

 

[gyngyn]

There's a thread for this! *~*~*~*Official AMCAS Work/Activities Tips Thread 2017-2018*~*~*~*

 

[Gauss44]

There's a thread for this: *~*~*~*Official AMCAS Work/Activities Tips Thread 2017-2018*~*~*~*

I would like a discussion NOT a single response; thus, I would prefer this to have it's own thread.

 

[Gauss44]

My sense is that some schools have something like 1-10 points available for each category on the drop down bar. So, if you filled out all 15 as Honors, for example, you would do yourself in and get a terrible score. Alternatively, if you use a different category for all 15, you will maximize your points, as long as there is something substantial for each one.

Is anyone's school like this or very different from this?