swtiepie711 said:
What I meant was that they ask "what have you been up do" which is in the activities section of my ACMAS. My personal statement wouldn't be rehashed, but my summaries from AMCAS experiences would basically be (when put together for the past year) what I've done for the past year. I can take out/add a sentence, etc. but it doesn't change much. Seems like you can't do much to change that...
Not everyone reads every word of those ECs. A reader might scan down to see if you have clinical exposure of some kind, research (if that's important to the school), what you did with your summers, leadership roles, something "interesting" that distinguishes you from the pack.
The secondary will get read. Put your little EC blurbs into paragraph form with a strong focus on what you have learned so far and what you are looking forward to in the coming year and how this time away from school is preparing you for med school (or motivating you to go back to school so you are not stuck in that job forever

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