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[Lafakads]

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If I dont have any community service volunteering?

Only thing I can kinda put down was helping residents move into campus on the first week. Was in some strong college kid movers thing or something like that through the rugby team.

Or just leave it blank?

 

[PreMedOrDead]

If I dont have any community service volunteering?

Only thing I can kinda put down was helping residents move into campus on the first week. Was in some strong college kid movers thing or something like that through the rugby team.

Or just leave it blank?

In three or more years of college you have done nothing to help your local community?

😳

I suppose it's better than nothing...

 

[Lafakads]

In three or more years of college you have done nothing to help your local community?

😳

I suppose it's better than nothing...

Im not a typical premed. Engineering undergrad and changed my mind on that the last year. Took some prereqs and dominated the MCAT. I focused more on getting medical experience like medical volunteering, working in a pathology lab, shadowing and research.

 

[Praefectus]

Could you slant part of your medical volunteering as community service? Or you could try to do some community service this year and include it as an update during interviews.

 

[sector9]

If the prompt doesn't specifically state that they're looking for non-medical community service, then I don't see why you would avoid talking about your clinical community service

 

[Lafakads]

If the prompt doesn't specifically state that they're looking for non-medical community service, then I don't see why you would avoid talking about your clinical community service

A community service experience (unrelated to science or patient care).

🙁

I feel like a terrible person lol.

 

[JoshuaGuit]

Skew something. You had to have tutored some of your friends at one point or another during undergrad?

 

[PreMedOrDead]

Hmm, did you walk an old lady/man across a street recently?

Uh... how about pick someone's groceries up for them?

How about... did you hold the door open for anyone?


I would tend to agree with people here, I wouldn't leave it blank. Skew something is better than leaving it empty. Making a mountain out of a mole hill is generally frowned upon, but it's better than sounding like you did nothing during your undergrad (even though it seems like you did).

 

[Irish Football]

Don't leave it blank. Maybe don't apply to that school? If community service is important to that school, then what does that say about your chances of acceptance there?

 

[circulus vitios]

A community service experience (unrelated to science or patient care).

🙁

I feel like a terrible person lol.

Why? Not doing community service doesn't mean you're a bad person.

 

[Lafakads]

Skew something. You had to have tutored some of your friends at one point or another during undergrad?

I tutored but that was for a job at college.

Gonna use this.

"Volunteers may provide community service, however, not everyone who provides community service is seen as a volunteer, because some people who provide community service are not doing it of their own free will; they are compelled to do so by" - Wikipedia (yes quoted Wikipedia)

 

[Goobs]

I tutored but that was for a job at college.

Gonna use this.

"Volunteers may provide community service, however, not everyone who provides community service is seen as a volunteer, because some people who provide community service are not doing it of their own free will; they are compelled to do so by" - Wikipedia (yes quoted Wikipedia)

Your entire answer is a quote from Wikipedia? I'm under your impression they want your words and not someone else's.

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[sector9]

Your entire answer is a quote from Wikipedia? I'm under your impression they want your words and not someone else's.

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I'm guessing that the OP meant he/she was going to use that definition to decide what is community service, not that this was the secondary response

 

[FSU2013]

Find something, anything. Don't lie, but a little healthy inflation is permitted.

It's highly doubtful that your ECs will get you into med school or keep you out, but the absence of them is certainly noticeable. Think back, there's got to be a time you helped out at church, tutored a few friends, mentored someone. There's something. Find it. Make it sound grandiose.