1) It's an Artistic Endeavor. As a DJ, you are a performer.
Yes. Ditto for a research experience taken for credit.
Listing 15 activities us fine. For nontrads, grouping is the only recourse, or leaving activities out completely.
Maybe, depending on the hobby (like how interesting is it and would your skill level/depth of knowledge have grown over the years). If you decide to include lifelong involvement, I suggest breaking it down several timeframes using the Repeated feature, say childhood, HS, and college. Don't worry too much about precise hourly computations prior to college. If you like you can enter a zero, or better enter a 99, 999, or 9999 to signal that the hours are unknowable.
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Yes, that's OK. Many applicants format their intended "persona" as a doctor from amazing or appalling doctorly things they've witnessed in the course of their clinical duties or shadowing activity.
Ideally, for an Employment, Volunteer, or Teaching space, he'd add a Contact for each team he coached, with the first in the header (most recent/most hours-doesn't matter) and the others in the narrative space.
LOL. What do you think most physicians do all day at work?
I would say it is an interesting hobby that involves significant skill that I have continued from age 6-now (I’m oldish). I will likely include lifetime involvement for this activity then, as it is a huge part of who I am.
As you are "Old-ish" maybe also add a timespan for post-college years.
Okay perfect. I will do that. Thank you so much.
As years have passed, using a teammate would be fine.
Ok great. I was there from 2010-2014. I’ll use a teammate. You’re the best. Thank you for all your help. I’ve learned so much from your posts.
Giving the study abroad scholarship its own space is fine, but if you make it MM are you going to discuss the scholarship or the abroad experience? If the latter, why not use an "Other" space (where most applicants discuss a study abroad experience if they choose to list it) and mention the scholarship in the title and/or in the body of your narrative, rather than in an Awards/Honors space?
If you want to signal to schools that you intend to continue an activity, be sure to make it clear which hours you have already completed and then add the future intentions. Note that future hours don't carry weight in adcomm decision making. Two options:
You aren't required to claim all the hours that you've shadowed.
If you had 50 physician shadowing hours (the average among all those applying), I suggest listing less than 50 for other professions.
Okay sounds good. Would you apply the same logic when applying to DO programs via AACOMAS?
Sorry, I have no experience with AACOMAS schools' adcomm expectations.
Regarding grouping multiple jobs, how should one enter the date ranges for 2 different jobs that were years apart? I began my 1st one in 2013, and ended my 2nd in 2018. There is a gap inbetween.
What you've described is fine. How do you propose to name the space to give the two jobs a commonality? Are they both collegiate jobs?
One was during college, and the other after graduation. They are blue-collar. I put "Manufacturing Work Experience"
Sounds good.
It is preferred that you refrain from mentioning a manuscript in-preparation, or a submitted manuscript, or a manuscript in-review, as there is no guaranty it won't need major revisions, will be accepted by that journal, or will even eventually be published anywhere despite three-plus submissions. If you feel compelled to mention it regardless, bring it up in the affiliated Research space, but preferably you'll save it for Secondaries or future update letters after it's been through the peer-review process and you have an acceptance letter.
Describe it as Intercollegiate & Community-Based Cultural Group Leadership and get all possible points by describing it as you have here.
Include this too, as it supports your thesis.
1) Adcomms will look on listing this sort of assistance to a friend or family member as fluff, and it isn't worth mentioning three tutoring sessions regardless, as it would make you look desperate. Don't list this experience.
1a) Yes and yes. Hopefully this activity didn't keep you from volunteering your time in the USA as well.
Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it. I have paid experince as a nurse that began this year and will continue till August next year. I was thinking of listing the hours completed already before submission and the rest as future hours up until I have to leave for matriculation. What are your thoughts on this?
If you want to signal to schools that you intend to continue an activity, be sure to make it clear which hours you have already completed and then add the future intentions. Note that future hours don't carry weight in adcomm decision making. Two options:
No.
Thank you.
1) If you can make a good faith estimate, do so, particularly for the college years, but the total hours don't matter, so a zero or a 9999 would be fine to enter as alternatives.
Generally,for Honors/Awards, you could enter the time spent in ceremonies receiving the honor, or a zero, though if one were asked to be a graduation speaker, I think the speech preparation time could be entered.
The title you enter for the Contact will appear after their name on the printout, so it could be academic credentials (PhD) or their job title (Chair of English Department), or the position they hold that is relevant to you using them as a Contact (Principal Investigator, Faculty Advisor, co-volunteer, Shadowing Coordinator). Note that you can use PhD and another title if you put a comma between and it will still look OK. Or you can put the PhD after the last name with a comma before it. Another comma is entered automatically between the content of the Last Name space and the Title space.
1) Using one space to describe this effort would be acceptable. Others have included ONE SPACE about the experience of writing a thesis.
