I don’t recommend for or against. It’s not the coursework that is discussed, but rather the experience of living elsewhere. But only if it was impactful in some way.
It’s fine to list him for all three since he can vouch for everything.
What and who did you tutor? Do you have a Contact who is an objective validator? Do you have other teaching, tutoring, mentoring or coaching listed?
I tutored first year general chemistry and second year organic chemistry. I can have one of my peers validate tutoring as it was common for upper year chemistry students to tutor these courses for first years.
Could you group the HS camp and the chem tutoring together as Paid Employment?
I could squeeze them together if you think they're both important, I'm just worried how I'd split up the time. One was for a summer full-time. The other was intermittently over 2-3 years (private tutoring). How would you recommend I go about splitting that up/describing the time period?
Total Hours for the space would include hours for both. Subtotals and datespans would go in the narrative about each.
Sounds good. Thanks a lot Catalystik!
Does this advice hold true if the merit award is awarded by the school as you entered? For example, my University awarded a 40k merit scholarship over 4 years for high school grades and exam scores. I don't know if this is worth adding a whole section for because it would be the only award + like the typical grade awards from schools every semester.
A merit scholarship based on HS achievement isn’t worth entering into an Activities space. There is another place in the AMCAS application to apportion how you paid for college.
1) It’s fine to list yourself as Contact for this.
Thanks, I do have a few hundred other hours for non-clinical volunteering. This tutoring is only an extra 50 I did during quarantine and I was hoping to just add it in to show I tried to do something during that time when I couldn't get other in-person opportunities.
could I list myself as the contact for a teaching experience? I starting teaching piano to children on my own time. And would this be better as an artistic endeavor?
Can you check emails and see who sent the shadowing schedule? That would be a possible Contact. Or ask the boss who would be more suitable to list. You need not mention physician names if you have one person to attest to all of them.
Call it a Hobby which needs no Contact. Or call it volunteer and use the parent of one of the kids as Contact, as you prefer to use a more objective source than yourself if possible.
The scheduler who is part of my boss's team sent the schedule but I'll def ask which is better, thanks! I've also been told using storytelling is an effective way to describe activities. Does that apply to shadowing?
See the example in post 2 of this thread, item #10. Brief anecdotes are sufficient.
1) Yes, divide it into three categories. IMO, a Leadership space should include only the dates and hours of leadership roles. Clinical and nonclinical volunteering need to be differentiated.
Prior to teaching piano (I just started in April so I don't have a large amount of hours) I've played piano for the past 16 years. Is it too cliche and redundant to list piano as another hobby entry, separate from teaching? Do admissions care that I've played piano for so long or do they care more about the teaching aspect?
1-2 months of teaching piano will not add substantially to your application.
What about 4 months (2 projected) ? I'll be teaching until the end of July. I aim to continue once I relocate back home. Sorry if this is a trivial question
Sorry, but projected hours won’t count for much, other than to signal intent. We know that all too often life intrudes and prevents completion of serious plans. If you do complete the additional two months, you can let schools know via update letters (where allowed), in Secondary essays (where appropriate), and during interview conversations. Then those hours have the possibility of effecting decision making.
Using a separate entry would be undesirable. I prefer what you’ve done, using one space but differentiating the hours which are in-person vs virtual.
Yes, but break it down in your description (teaching vs prep).
It should superficially look different. Change the first sentence, substitute some vocabulary, make some minor edits or reorganizations.
I would rather see the experience listed under the "Other" or "Extracurricular" category, since it will contain two experiences of equal strength, with the title of the space reflecting both components. If that isn't satisfactory to you, use the Research tag with the words Academic Exchange Organizer included in the space's name. Regardless, within the description, apportion the hours aggregated in the Total Hours space to each subcomponent. as you describe it.
1) Yes.
Thank you so much!
I don't have enough sense of your overall application and goals to best advise you. Do you have a WAMC post where you can direct me with your stats, school list, and more information about your entrepreneurial involvement? This is not the thread for providing that sort of information.
3) i think for leadership it would be 100 (2018)->300 hours (2019), followed by 16 hours in the last month as I am now a part of a mentorship program to help newest exec board with transition post covid (though maybe that's more nonclinical volunteering rather than leadership?)
You can use the Repeated feature since the times of involvement are spread out over years. Alternatively, just add a note at the end of the space about your recent mentorship, since it's minimal, and which I think is fine to leave in the same Leadership space.
Thank you so so much! Is there any way I could privately send you my hours breakdown for you to look over for any red flags/clearly deficient areas? I’m sure I’m being really neurotic but my last application lacked some strategy and I’m trying to make up for it this time haha.
Sorry, but my PM box is closed. Activities reviews can be sought in the WAMC Forum.
Enter either a zero or the time you sat at an awards ceremony to have the honor conferred.
1) Yes, you can group them provided you enter Contact info/Organization in the narrative space for those listed after the first.
Yes. That's a big fat "0." You're listing the awards themselves, not the hours you spent in class and studying, grinding away to earn the grades the led to the awards. Those are actually the hours reflected in the credits in your Academic Record section! 😎
Thanks, that makes sense. However, one of the tutorings is an MM for me (the refugee/ELL one) and I feel I need all characters for that. Could I just put that alone, then the others in another "tutoring/mentoring/etc." activity slot, or would that be too confusing?
