Question pertaining to Extracurricular, volunteer, community service

[DrModern]

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Hello all, I have a few questions on what I should/ shouldn't put on my application.

So I was part of this pre-med organization for three years (fresh- junior).
Fresh: member of the year, with 300+ hours of community service.
Sophomore: officer 450+ hours
Junior: executive officer 450+ hours

So I had people tell me to merge everything to merge everything together, but every year I bring something entirely new to the table. What do you guys think?
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Also, I have been swimming every other day, on and off for three years in college. (1.5 hours per session)
Should I state this in the application? I guess this would be categorized as extracurricular activity.
I'm just swimming on my own, not part of the team or anything.
But then again, this is nothing exceptional except for me maintaining my shape.
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Also, on the topic of fitness, I was pretty out of shape out of college, 25+% body fat.
During this gap year, which I used to study for MCAT, I went to the gym every single day.
Now I have a defined six pack with under 10% body fat.
I think this shows dedication and drive to achieve my goal.
Should I list this as part of my application? What do you guys think?

Thank you all for reading this long post

 

[AlteredScale]

Hello all, I have a few questions on what I should/ shouldn't put on my application.

So I was part of this pre-med organization for three years (fresh- junior).
Fresh: member of the year, with 300+ hours of community service.
Sophomore: officer 450+ hours
Junior: executive officer 450+ hours

So I had people tell me to merge everything to merge everything together, but every year I bring something entirely new to the table. What do you guys think?
----
Also, I have been swimming every other day, on and off for three years in college. (1.5 hours per session)
Should I state this in the application? I guess this would be categorized as extracurricular activity.
I'm just swimming on my own, not part of the team or anything.
But then again, this is nothing exceptional except for me maintaining my shape.
----
Also, on the topic of fitness, I was pretty out of shape out of college, 25+% body fat.
During this gap year, which I used to study for MCAT, I went to the gym every single day.
Now I have a defined six pack with under 10% body fat.
I think this shows dedication and drive to achieve my goal.
Should I list this as part of my application? What do you guys think?

Thank you all for reading this long post

You should add all of these to your ECs. Describe them briefly and then save the "what you got out of them" for the secondaries. Nice job with keeping your health! (I'm jealous haha)

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

I do not think you should add most of that...

Like I get that people say "have something unique" but like there are literally hundreds of millions of people on earth who try to be healthy. It does not carry with it any kind of altruism or anything special. Like I think its great and I say keep it up, you will be happier and live longer for it. But for an application to medical school? That's like me saying that I work out on my job application for a lab tech job or something. It would more or less just raise an eyebrow I imagine.

If you did something with that stuff (be on a team, teach people how to sweet, volunteer for disabled people) then those would be excellent ECs. But just saying you swam and kept in shape is really weird to put on this kind of application.

I hate to drag others into this, but maybe @Goro has more to offer on this.

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[Awesome Sauceome]

***teach people how to swim (sorry on my phone)

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