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General Admissions & OTCAS Observation hours vs Experience

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I currently have around 60 shadowing hours with multiple therapists in different settings and I am wondering if I am even competitive for admissions?

I have many hours working with special needs children at summer camps, tutoring, etc. and for some schools these count as observation hours and at others they just want hours spent shadowing OT's, should I put everything under "observation" because it all counts for a couple of my schools but not others?