Recevied email requesting application clarification...thoughts?

Hello all,

This evening i received the following email from Rutgers-RWJ director of admissions.

"Thank you for your application to RWJMS. In your essay your write about your experiences in volunteering and speaking to patients/parents. Could you elaborate on those or other volunteer experiences outside of your coaching? I am particularly interested whether any of the volunteer experiences were during you undergraduate years and the opportunities you had to be outside of the campus/athlete environment."

I already sent my response email - I wanted to gauge some of your opinions on if this is a good sign or a bad sign. My conviction is that if they weren't interested or didn't think that I was competitive then they simply would have rejected me outright. Does anyone have any additional input or opinions on what this email could be implying?

Before someone points it out - that is the email copy and pasted. The grammar and spelling errors did strike me as odd but I am assuming that she is extremely busy and sent the email quickly.

Thanks in advance for your input!

 

I hope that they aren't suspicious of anything in particular. None of my LOR writers were involved in any of my volunteer experiences. I'm under the impression that if a medical school is suspicious then they would simply deny you rather then waste my time and theirs investigating something of the sort.

 

I did have a few that I felt weren't significant enough to take up activities slots (only submitted 10-11 work/activities.) because they were a few one day trips and between 30-40 hour experiences. In retrospect I could have put them all under one slot - I'm hoping I won't have to re-do that extensive application again next year!