Question about volunteering, research, EC's in general

[TheBiologist]

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Is continuing your EC's your senior year worth anything in admissions?

Say you have some amount of hours of volunteering at the time of your application; would it help you if you also said you were doing another 50 your senior year or is this of no value? same with research or anything

the reason I ask is because I actually want to focus on research and not continue with volunteering my senior year. I will have 70 hours of volunteering and 250 of research.

OKAy to stop volunteering?

 

[Goro]

Yes. Very much so.

Is continuing your EC's your senior year worth anything in admissions?

Say you have some amount of hours of volunteering at the time of your application; would it help you if you also said you were doing another 50 your senior year or is this of no value? same with research or anything

the reason I ask is because I actually want to focus on research and not continue with volunteering my senior year. I will have 70 hours of volunteering and 250 of research.

OKAy to stop volunteering?

 

[CyrilFiggis]

Different schools value clinical, research and volunteering differently.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Seventy hours doesn't seem like all that much to me.

 

[futuremd1988]

70 seems a little on the low end, can you maybe get up to 100 and then stop?

 

[TheBiologist]

70 seems a little on the low end, can you maybe get up to 100 and then stop?

will i be denied with 70?

it seems like most people were telling me at least 40

 

[Turkishking]

will i be denied with 70?

it seems like most people were telling me at least 40

That was probably for shadowing
You should have had over 200
But i think ~120 is fine

 

[LoveBeingHuman:)]

Yes. Very much so.

Is continuing your EC's your senior year worth anything in admissions?

Say you have some amount of hours of volunteering at the time of your application; would it help you if you also said you were doing another 50 your senior year or is this of no value? same with research or anything

the reason I ask is because I actually want to focus on research and not continue with volunteering my senior year. I will have 70 hours of volunteering and 250 of research.

OKAy to stop volunteering?

@Goro OP asked two different questions, which I have highlighted. Mind clarifying which one you were answering?

 

[LoveBeingHuman:)]

Is continuing your EC's your senior year worth anything in admissions?

Say you have some amount of hours of volunteering at the time of your application; would it help you if you also said you were doing another 50 your senior year or is this of no value? same with research or anything

the reason I ask is because I actually want to focus on research and not continue with volunteering my senior year. I will have 70 hours of volunteering and 250 of research.

OKAy to stop volunteering?

If you get rejected and have to re-apply, what will you tell your interviewer for your second cycle about why all your activities ended several months ago?

 

[Gurby]

If you get rejected and have to re-apply, what will you tell your interviewer for your second cycle about why all your activities ended several months ago?

I guess OP would have to tell them the truth: that s/he didn't give 2 farts about any of those activities and was just trying to do the minimum amount of work to check off the boxes.