1) It depends on how related they are. One description is fine if it covers what you want to say.
This is the AMCAS Activities Tips thread. You would do better to ask your question elsewhere (WAMC, where the desirable format is stickied at the top, or the Main Forum) giving full details about your application in order to get the best possible answer to your question.
Adcomms like to know how you stayed busy. That you were employable tells us something about you, that you can deal with the public, endure physical labor, manage young'uns, are trusted with money or keys, work well in a fast-paced environment, or whatever. Group your Collegiate Short-Term Employment if you need to save space, with abbreviated contact info for job #2 in the narrative.
AMCAS has a category for Artistic Endeavors-
I think that combining them in one Artistic Endeavors space would provide the context for the awards you decide to mention.
I think it's worthwhile to mention as evidence of scientific curiosity.
No. Don't do it. We are required to avoid clicking on strange links.
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More so in this last year at my school, since we are reviewing applications at home, where we may not have the same robust virus protection software that they do on school premises.
I think it would be fair and desirable to designate some of the hours from the activity and call it Shadowing. Be sure to subtract those hours from what you report for Volunteering so you don't double count them.
I don’t know that I have the room to create an additional activity, but I will definitely look at adding it into the MME description (the main body of this activity is shared between 2 non-clinical employments of 2000 hours and 4500 hours with the 2,000 being the MME and this project being maybe 150-200 hours).
Considering your other Research entries, I think you have scientific curiosity covered, but if you can squeeze it in, something slightly expanded, like:
Yes, it's a worthwhile addition. What hours would your Contact agree with? Just give a good faith estimate that is believable.
I'd tag the football involvement Intercollegiate Sports and mention the HS leadership roles very briefly as part of the backstory. Rugby might be best tagged Extracurricular, and again, you can include the backstory from HS. I agree with excluding the HS awards. If you start the coaching before you submit, it would go under Teaching (not Leadership), but really, you'd have barely begun and will have little to say. So maybe best to tack the invitation onto the end of the rugby entry.
No, but Ideally, the candidate would list other expressions of his leadership capacity, not necessary in sports.
Thank you for your thoughtful responses. I indeed will do as you recommend.
You're not so unique, as I did the same refocusing of career goals.
Yes, you can include this presentation on your AMCAS Presentations/Posters list, since you are an author, but give credit to the author that did the actual presentation.
Write it like this:
If you enter future start months into the AMCAS Activities space, it will not save them. I suggest you complete at least 40 hours before submitting, as future intentions are not much regarded by adcomms. This is one activity where longevity isn't necessary, so you should be able to get this done in a week if you have to. And surely you'll have reflections from the experience that might influence how you write your Personal Statement.
I agree with @Catalystik 's advice here.
Thanks what's the latest I can submit my application before it starts to affect my chances? The pcp said I can start in June
When in June would you start? How fast can you get the hours? Have you asked?
They didn't specify but I asked the ed doctor via email if I can start in May I'm waiting for a response. The pcp knows I want to do 8 hour days so I will get time in quick for him
How many hours were involved? Did this happen during the college years? Do you have another entry describing your musical involvement? What other volunteer hours can you list?
It seems that there will be good potential for you to be done and able to submit completed hours by July 1, then. Your chances will not be negatively impacted.
It was 3 hours a week for the entire 2016-2017 school year. I would estimate ~120 hours. This was done will I was a sophomore in college. I also play in a band with friends as a trumpet player recreationally. Aside from that, I have ~50 hours between cleaning up beaches, making sandwiches for the homeless, relay for life for an honor society I was a part of in college.
It's worth giving it a space on the application. There's nothing wrong with using a parent as a Contact, if you kept that information. Your friend, the co-musician, is another reasonable option. Or maybe the band director. If none is possible, use yourself (though a more impartial observer would be preferred).
So do I classify it as non-clinical volunteering?
Yes.
thank you for the reply!
Thanks so as long as I apply by July I should be good then. I hope I can get in this cycle I wish I used this site last year when I applied.
I am even though I'm going to get shadowing hours too. Alot of the ones I did virtually were on the admissions committee's at several us schools
Showing (briefly), but not telling is fine. I am not familiar with this person's "method," however I will tell you that reading entries that primarily tell a long story gives the impression that the applicant has little more to say, and didn't do much more, since it is at the expense of providing a global view of full role, contributions, lessons learned, future direction, and/or impact. One such 700-character entry might be fine, as is adding anecdotes to a MM entry, but an entire Activities section filled with them does not put the applicant in a good light, in my opinion. And thanks for giving me the opportunity to express this.
