Hi!
I tried to ask this question in the Work/Activities thread, but it seems to be quite dead at the moment. So, I thought I'd try my luck here.
I volunteered for two years at center for children with visual impairments. My responsibilities involved mostly taking care of the kids, playing with them, reading to/with them, and working as a vision screener, which involved going to local preschools to provide vision tests that can identify potential vision problems in young children. I also participated in the organization's other fundraising work (for example, volunteering at the organization's Christmas tree lot during the holidays). My questions regarding this experience are:
1. Since I did all this with my sorority's philanthropy/outreach program, the only contact person that I can provide is a past or current president of the sorority chapter. Will this seem suspicious or silly? I didn't organize the events, so I never got in contact with any of the staff who actually worked at the center. Should I just leave the contact person's name blank?
2. This should count as volunteer experience, but is it clinical or non-clinical? The children i worked with weren't patients at a hospital... but I feel like the vision screening at least counts as clinical? I'm not sure, though. Do you think that's stretching it?
Also, I will be volunteering at a hospice this year (my gap year), but my actual volunteering/doing useful stuff doesn't start until the middle of this month. I have already started their intensive training program, though. Should I include this on my primary app. (and explain the current situation) and then elaborate on my actual useful experiences in the secondary app.? On the one hand, I don't want schools to dismiss me because I don't have enough clinical experience but on the other hand, I don't want them to think I'm padding my application.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
I tried to ask this question in the Work/Activities thread, but it seems to be quite dead at the moment. So, I thought I'd try my luck here.
I volunteered for two years at center for children with visual impairments. My responsibilities involved mostly taking care of the kids, playing with them, reading to/with them, and working as a vision screener, which involved going to local preschools to provide vision tests that can identify potential vision problems in young children. I also participated in the organization's other fundraising work (for example, volunteering at the organization's Christmas tree lot during the holidays). My questions regarding this experience are:
1. Since I did all this with my sorority's philanthropy/outreach program, the only contact person that I can provide is a past or current president of the sorority chapter. Will this seem suspicious or silly? I didn't organize the events, so I never got in contact with any of the staff who actually worked at the center. Should I just leave the contact person's name blank?
2. This should count as volunteer experience, but is it clinical or non-clinical? The children i worked with weren't patients at a hospital... but I feel like the vision screening at least counts as clinical? I'm not sure, though. Do you think that's stretching it?
Also, I will be volunteering at a hospice this year (my gap year), but my actual volunteering/doing useful stuff doesn't start until the middle of this month. I have already started their intensive training program, though. Should I include this on my primary app. (and explain the current situation) and then elaborate on my actual useful experiences in the secondary app.? On the one hand, I don't want schools to dismiss me because I don't have enough clinical experience but on the other hand, I don't want them to think I'm padding my application.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
