Primary EC Description Vague?

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[907914]

So I am looking over my primary application and each EC description to prepare for interviews, but after reading one of my EC description, I kind of feel like it is vague and because of that, I am worried that adcoms will see it as embellished (not the activity or the hours as a whole, but rather a patient interaction story). I talk about a patient interaction that I had, but it is very general and essentially the following:

Patient sad --> I provided comfort --> Patient became emotional/thankful

In the primary, you don't get much of a character count, so will adcoms give me the benefit of the doubt and not assume that the patient interaction didn't happen? And what would constitute an adcoms BS alarm to go off? I am more than willing to explain anything the adcoms think is "BS" at the interview, but will it stop me from getting an II if an adcoms suspects this? Thanks

They won’t think it is BS. Sounds about as eye-rolling and “ugh” inducing as most other applicants I have read (myself very much included). Truth be told - at least from what I have picked up on here - it appears as though most applicants are pretty check boxy and standard in their descriptions, so unless you are a truly unique applicant not much weight will be put in your wording of the W/A section.

 

[Catalystik]

So I am looking over my primary application and each EC description to prepare for interviews, but after reading one of my EC description, I kind of feel like it is vague and because of that, I am worried that adcoms will see it as embellished (not the activity or the hours as a whole, but rather a patient interaction story). I talk about a patient interaction that I had, but it is very general and essentially the following:

Patient sad --> I provided comfort --> Patient became emotional/thankful

In the primary, you don't get much of a character count, so will adcoms give me the benefit of the doubt and not assume that the patient interaction didn't happen? And what would constitute an adcoms BS alarm to go off? I am more than willing to explain anything the adcoms think is "BS" at the interview, but will it stop me from getting an II if an adcoms suspects this? Thanks

You are overthinking this. Whoever scores the Activities section won't dis you on the basis of a single anecdote. If an adcomm's BS radar goes off during the interview prep, they will quiz you about the story. Be prepared to go full throttle into a fuller version of the story.