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I've never seen an entire letter quoted in the Activities section. Nor are links to heroic news stories encouraged. I expect there's a reason for that. Instead, you might describe the award and its criteria, and maybe paraphrase the highpoints of the letter briefly, so as to appear more professional.
In what way did you not meet expectations? If you are vague like that, you will be asked for details.
Yes, as I guessed in another thread and commented: a slower typing speed than required is understandable and doesn't reflect negatively. If asked, just whip the answer out. Don't make them drag it out like it's a huge personal flaw.
1) Sorry, it's Employment - Not Medical/Clinical as no real patients were cared for.
Sorry, I misunderstood.
Community Service is more important.
Are you an aspirant to highly-selective, reseach-oriented med schools, or are your stats more consistent with schools below the top twenty?
No need to apologize, I should have been more clear. I am very grateful for the advice you have provided thus far. Thank you so much!
Didn't you enter the related research into a Research space (if it was hypothesis-driven) or the thesis under the Other tag (if it was based on a literature review)? If you want those hours to get attention, I'd suggest doing so.
Or you could go ahead and list the distinction in Awards/Honors, put a zero for Total Hours, and in the narrative space mention that 100 of the research hours listed elsewhere were dedicated to the thesis that resulted in the recognition. (You wouldn't want to double count those research hours, anyways.)
1) If they are over $3000.
If you haven't started it yet, you shouldn't list it. Can you wait to submit until you begin?
Applicants foster kittens and pups. Bunnies are more unusual. Definitely include it, but only count the hours you're interacting with them, not all of the time they reside in your residence.
Thank you so much!
You will no doubt be blessed by the weary adcomms trying to digest the mass of information on your application.
1) Most adcomms will view this as nonclinical, but if you emphasize the patient contact parts of your job, some will mentally give you points in the "clinical" column. It's always best to undersell youself in this regard, rather than being perceived to be doing the opposite. You still have the advantage that comes with needing people skills in order to do your job, regardless.
When you visited the lab a few times, what did you do there: orientation, safety training, online certifications, or other?
Yes, you can use yourself, unless you have an adherent who is more objective who follows you: advisor, faculty member, adult family member, friend.
1) Yes you an list it now. Understand that future hour predictions don't carry any weight, so you'd be listing it mainly so adcomms will know your intent. It will be important for you to give updates on Secondaries, where possible, and in future update letters (where permitted) as you continue in the lab and get a better overall picture of your role.
You can list both by using the Repeated feature, so you have two timespans listed. End timespan 1 (100 hours already completed) and begin timespan 2 (400 projected hours) with the current month. Both spans and total hours will appear in the header of the activity.
If only my kids realized that.
No. Call it a submitted manuscript in review in your Research entry. If it's accepted you will have something new and relevant to report on Secondaries or update letters.
I can't promise that 100% of adcomms will view it negatively, but really, it just isn't done. Might you consider tacking mention of it onto the end of another similar or volunteer activity, stating that the one activity inspired you to xxx, that you've been accepted to start 8/2018 in a [role] position at [location] for 9 months?
I think I'll find another way to include it than as a future activity
It wouldn't be clinical unless you were involved in care relevant to their medical condition, like administering medication, guiding physical therapy exercises, doing occupational therapy teaching, etc. The reasoning is that babysitting a three-year-old isn't considered "clinical," but you'd do those same tasks you mentioned for them, too.
If you are ambitious to attend one of those schools, considering you said "I have several different research experiences (800 hours/2 years in a biology lab, 200 hours/6 months in a surgery lab, and 75 hours/3 months in a humanities research group)" you'd likely be better served to list each research activity separately and to lovingly revel in the exciting lessons learned from each of those opportunities in the narrative space.
