Providing links in the Work & Activities section

[okokok]

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For most of the nitpicky questions about the Work and Activities section, I think it doesn't really matter and whatever you choose to do is fine for the most part, but for some reason I can't decide about putting links in the description of the Work & Activities section (specifically, I'm thinking of two links, one to a pdf of a scientific poster and one to a pdf of a nonscientific magazine article). I know they'll rarely get clicked, but maybe in the event they were really trying to decide between me or another person? Or is this totally a waste of characters?

 

[NickNaylor]

I wouldn't. Instead, if an interviewer or anyone else is interested, I would just email the links later. You could also email the links to the admissions office after submitting your secondary. Either way, I don't think putting them in your AMCAS is the best way to go.

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[okokok]

I wouldn't. Instead, if an interviewer or anyone else is interested, I would just email the links later. You could also email the links to the admissions office after submitting your secondary. Either way, I don't think putting them in your AMCAS is the best way to go.

Sent from my SGH-M919

Thanks for your advice, I appreciate it.

 

[LizzyM]

If we want to look at them, there's always google... but I do find that the links are a generous way of making more information available. At my school, the point where we'd be looking at links would not be in deciding between you & someone else but in deciding if you meet the threshold for an interivew. I guess, in that regard, the links could work for you, or against, depending on the quality of what is linked.

 

[askamsky51]

If we want to look at them, there's always google... but I do find that the links are a generous way of making more information available. At my school, the point where we'd be looking at links would not be in deciding between you & someone else but in deciding if you meet the threshold for an interivew. I guess, in that regard, the links could work for you, or against, depending on the quality of what is linked.

Interesting. I was going to contribute to the thread by stating I doubt any adcoms would bother follwing a link. Clearly I was mistaken.