If a school doesn’t accept updates and also doesn’t ask about application year plans on the secondary, will they give the benefit of the doubt about gap year plans when inviting for interviews? My specific situation is that I didn’t mention any clinical volunteering for my app/gap year in my primary but I still want schools to know that I will be doing it during the gap year. I don’t want them to think I just dropped it.
- Aug 17, 2016
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- Medical Student (Accepted)
You can project hours on primary and include an end date up to june of the year that you would matriculate
1) If they didn't ask and they don't allow updates, they'll be judging your application based on what you've already accomplished. They have no reason to make an assumption that you've continued with previous activities, since many short-sighted applicants, who can't imagine they might need to reapply, don't.
2) If you didn't project future hours on your Primary application, updates aren't accepted, and the Secondary had no relevant prompt, your only avenue for informing schools of gap year accomplishments would be during interview conversations.
Actually, you can project future hours up until August of the intended matriculation year.
- Aug 17, 2016
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- 578
- Status
- Medical Student (Accepted)
Woops. I just projected to June because lord knows I'm going to take some personal time before starting on this journey. Thanks for the correction!