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I think it would be fine if within the Shadowing space you use for the dedicated shadowing, you also make a note that "In addition, x% of your clinical rounds (or whatever) listed elsewhere, you were in the presence of physicians, watching them interact with patients, for ~YY hours." Keep in mind that about 50 hours is the average listed for shadowing experience, so don't go overboard in your estimate.
No, but it isn't uncommon for an applicant to enter an activity in the Other category describing the experience of completing a thesis (if it is completed and has been accepted).
1) For some activities, like sports or artistic endeavors, where involvement was near-life-long, some applicants will go back 1-2 decades.
Here is an example of a super-condensed Publication entry using PMID#, thanks to tmax, which you could adapt for your own purposes. (Though I generally disagree with including submitted manuscripts, there might be a place for them when one can demonstrate super-productive involvement and has a proven pattern of acceptance):
Only two mistakes? Just as your brain and those of your readers "autocorrected" these errors when the essays were read slowly and carefully, so will it be for most adcomms who read them more quickly. Don't worry about it.
Most leadership activities are mentioned in the same space as the activity which spawned the opportunity, so adcomms won't have any trouble figuring out what's what, considering you kindly named the space in a way that points a giant arrow to your leadership activity. As your description also communicated that this is a major leadership role, you'll be fine.
You cannot correct the entry, if that's what you're asking. How old were you 10 years ago? Might your age (if not the specific activity or other context) clue in readers that there was a typo in the date?
haha yeah it should. I would have been 13. not sure if its good or bad that theyd be able to tell.
Not a big deal.
Many do not list any future hours or plans on their primary application. Better to mention only those activities you're sure of. Hopefully by the time you receive Secondaries that provide an appropriate prompt, you'll have a good idea of other involvement you can mention. For other schools, update letters might be a possible means of informing about other relevant activities.
Awesome, thank you!
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I see! That clears things up. Thank you @Catalystik!
If an application is littered with mistakes, it gets annoying. Two mistakes doesn't begin to approach being a "huge negative."
Can you separate out the hours of Leadership (not including the time before you were elected) and the volunteer hours (not including travel time)? Then they can be listed in two spaces. If the community service component is low, you might consider grouping it with other non-medical community service, so that the Total Hours for both venues looks stronger. You could mention hours as a general member as part of the backstory of the Leadership space.
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I think it's an interesting volunteer or hobby activity worth mentioning in Secondaries if you get a suitable essay prompt. That you were "acknowledged" is not worth mentioning, IMO. That three of the papers you edited were published, IS worth mentioning.
Just cite the poster. No further narrative is needed. The Total Hours for the space would be the hours you stood in front of it at a conference (prep hours would go into the Research Total hours of the affiliated space). If you were not the presenter, enter a zero.
I'm completing 150 by December though for sure. So is this strategy okay to do?
1) Extracurricular can mean any activity outside of classroom requirements, or it can exclude work also, but it more commonly seems to mean anything related to a college campus (eg, organizations, student gov, intramural sport). Take your pick.Ok, I have a lot of (slightly complicated) questions about this section before I turn in my application! @Catalystik I'd love your help and input 🙂
1. What comes under the extracurricular activity category and how is this different from the hobby category?
2. As a non-trad, I have many activities with "hard-to-verify" hours. Mainly in some of my volunteering activities, things happened like the organization changed/shut down/got a new volunteer coordinator/went from paper sign-in to electronic and lost some hours/etc.
In particular, I have one non-clinical volunteering that is my most meaningful where I did 140 hours from Jan 2014-Feb 2016, and put a second category as 150 hours from March 2017 - December 2018. This place changed volunteer coordinators 3 times and went from using no sign-in sheet to paper sign-in sheet to electronic ipad sign-in. Anyway, it looks like my hours from the first two coordinators did not transfer over to when the new coordinator started. So the system shows only my hours with the new coordinator which is 50 hours total ?!?! I don't know what to do with this, and it's worrisome. Do I have to put down 50 hours in AMCAS to match even though I actually did the above hrs? How do I explain this? Fyi, the 1st volunteer manager left in late 2014, second one left in 2016. New one began in 2017. I have been unable to contact the first two, but I can still try. Either way, it seems I need to put the new, current coordinator down as contact 🙁
3. I split some of my activity hours using the repeated feature stating my hours completed until July 2018, and then future hours starting from July 2018. I understand this is recommended. However, for some activities, I'm hesitant to do this mainly b/c the bulk of my hours will be done this summer. For example, one activity looks like this: Jan 2014-Feb 2016 = 140 hours, and second category March 2017 - December 2018 = 150 hours. I did this because I did not complete as many hours as I would have liked from March 2017 to now. It would look weird to put down March 2017 - July 2017 = 70 hours right? I only went to this activity 4-5 hours a month back then
4. Do bullet points look lazy and sloppy to adcom readers by any chance? I want to use bullets b/c it lets me put in the most information, but if it is perceived negatively...
Adcomms are well aware of how H4H is structured (no pun intended), but you can explain the sporadic involvement in the narrative if you wish.
I'm not clear on the level of your involvement with this society. Was it a campus club, a national group, or what? For how many hours were you involved and over what amount of time? Was it mainly training seminars, weekend meetings, or a weekly involvement? In what way did you demonstrate leadership that adcomms will find meaningful, in your opinion?
The quality of the writing for the Personal Statement and the Activities area are expected to be similar. If you feel they are not, take special care with the Secondary essays to be clear and concise.
There is a process for making an appeal mentioned in the AMCAS instruction manual. You might look thorough this thread to see if your situation has already been addressed: *~*~*~*Official AMCAS Questions Thread 2018-2019*~*~*~*
1) It would be a leadership position, but if you want to list it under Leadership-Not Listed Elsewhere, you'd need to enter the datespan and hours for leadership only and leave your job as a stylist under Employment, with its own dates and hours, without double counting the hours.
If your application was complete with MCAT included and it was verified, then schools receive a corrected copy of the verified transcript. If your application has no MCAT score, then the school won't have the application yet. In my experience the appeals process (as outlined in another users original post) is usually fairly quick as there are straightforward criteria for approving such appeals, or not, but total time of delay depends on how much further arguing you plan to do if denied.
1) Yes.
1) Typically, the time spent preparing manuscripts is included in the affiliated Research entry. It seems odd you won't have one for the social epi paper, as a demonstrated understanding of the scientific method is an important part of an applicant's appeal (regardless of discipline). But if you won't have it, then the prep hours would go in the Publications Total Hours slot (with subtotals near each citation).
1) Got it. You might include this brief explanation in the Publications space after the citation. You would not include the class-required project completion hours, just the "further"manuscript prep hours in this unusual case, because the class is on your transcript and the time is accounted for already.
Can you describe where you're running into a problem?
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