Mistake on app, volunteer hours not listed...am I screwed?

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BioLife23

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My stats for reference - GPA: 3.94, MCAT: 504.
ECs on app - Former business owner (5+ years), manager in hospitality for 3 years, worked in medical clinic 2 years (while in undergrad), 140+ hrs shadowing, various hobbies and lots of travel experiences.

The dilemma - Basically when I submitted my app I was using Firefox because things weren't loading properly in Chrome, but my app looked fine. However, after I submitted and logged back in, I realized that my volunteer entry (plus one hobby) was not there. The rest of my ECs are listed, but now my only option is to add information about my voluntering onto the secondaries that have a "anything else you want to add" section. My question is whether or not adding it to the secondary will look faux pas and possibly hurt more than help?

For the schools that don't have anywhere to add it I am essentially unable to tell them about my volunteering, so how will this weigh on me given the rest of my app? I am really upset about this but still hoping it will work out. 🙁
 
I don't have an answer for this, but you might want to post it on the "Official AMCAS Work/Activities" thread for a quick response.


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I am no expert but I would call amcas and see what they say


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Did you forget to put in those entries, or did you put them in but AMCAS failed to save them? If the error is on their end, you might be able to edit it. Most likely however they will tell you that you cannot edit a submitted app, and you just have to add the activity on secondaries (or directly email each school explaining with a PDF of the missing activity/description to add to your file).
 
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