So I know that it is obviously important and beneficial to submit your applications early in the cycle. I also know that you can update your app throughout the process. My situation is that I am volunteering at a camp for children with special needs starting the second week of June. It will be about 125 hours of volunteering. Am I correct in thinking that I should just wait until after this camp to submit my app in the third/fourth week of June? I'm under the impression schools don't start reviewing applications until July 1st anyway.
Question about submitted application early
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This isn't really the case. You can send updates much later in the cycle, often post-interview, but there's no easy way to update your app throughout the cycle
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no, do not wait until the camp is over to submit your application. Include this as an activity and denote that it's current and you're still doing said activity by imputting the end date as "July 2017" or whenever it ends. And the text in which you explain the activity, the last sentence should reiterate that you'll continue to participate in this activity for "x months" or "until matriculation in 2018". In short, do not delay submission for the sake of adding extra hours to an activity that you can explain that you're gonna do x amount of hours for in the future anyway!
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happy to help! good luck 🙂
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Because it is a pre-determined amount of hours and you are most likely going to go through with it without any major complications, I would feel comfortable adding it to your AMCAS application for an early submission at the beginning of June. Your AMCAS will take several weeks to be verified and you will most likely have completed the activity by then anyways, so if there are any secondaries that ask about those kinds of experiences you will do just fine with it. Only activities that are uncertain or more "prospective" rather than concrete in the future should be avoided on AMCAS.
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Just so you know AAMC does not submit verified applications until basically the last week of June to schools. And even though schools receive your app, they might not even start "reviewing" for a few weeks.
Applying late June /early July will NOT hurt your application at all. But honestly I don't see this volunteering making or breaking your app, so I wouldn't wait, instead would write projected hours.
