Including a sport during a semester I dropped out

[Medikit]

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I was going to list running as a hobby on my application. I also ran competitively for my team and helped them get 4th in their division, however I did this during my first semester of college a semester that I dropped out of during thanksgiving week. Do you guys think I should add it? I haven't run competitively since, but I've been running regularly for the past year about 4x a week. So I thought I'd list it as a hobby and mention that I ran competitively.

 

[Heal&Teach]

Interesting question... I'd think that it would be fine to list that you ran competitively and give specific dates as to when you did (and specify that you competed on the team at your school). I'm not sure that the admissions committees would be paying that much attention to your extracurriculars at all unless you've specifically mentioned them in your essay. I think that they moreso concentrate on what you've written in your personal statement and secondary. But then again, there might be that isolated time when someone wants to be nitpicky and go through your application with a fine-toothed comb. IMHO, you probably don't have much to worry about considering the volume of applications that medical schools receive. I mean, what are they going to say? "They let you continue running even though you didn't finish the semester?" And you can basically explain to them what you just wrote here.

 

[MoosePilot]

I was going to list running as a hobby on my application. I also ran competitively for my team and helped them get 4th in their division, however I did this during my first semester of college a semester that I dropped out of during thanksgiving week. Do you guys think I should add it? I haven't run competitively since, but I've been running regularly for the past year about 4x a week. So I thought I'd list it as a hobby and mention that I ran competitively.

I'd list it. Sets you apart. You might pick up some runner support, but there's no such thing as runner discrimination, so it's all good and no bad 👍

 

[samurai_lincoln]

But then again, there might be that isolated time when someone wants to be nitpicky and go through your application with a fine-toothed comb. IMHO, you probably don't have much to worry about considering the volume of applications that medical schools receive. I mean, what are they going to say? "They let you continue running even though you didn't finish the semester?" And you can basically explain to them what you just wrote here.

The OP dropped out around Thanksgiving, so the season was finished up by that time. IIRC, cross country nationals are held about a week before turkey day. Otherwise the people in the northeast and midwest would be freezing their asses off during regionals. So no complicated explanation necessary.

 

[Heal&Teach]

The OP dropped out around Thanksgiving, so the season was finished up by that time. IIRC, cross country nationals are held about a week before turkey day. Otherwise the people in the northeast and midwest would be freezing their asses off during regionals. So no complicated explanation necessary.

Good point RJ (oops, SL). 😀 👍

 

[Medikit]

Thanks for replying to my thread 🙂

I wrote it up in hobbies and mentioned that I've been a runner for some time and ran competitively and helped my team secure a 4th place finish at our regional 🙂

I wish I was still running competitively 🙁