secondary questions

[scarfscarfscarf]

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one of them "What do you feel is your most significant non-academic accomplishment?" leaves me wondering a question to myself. if i answer this using a high school experience, do you guys think that may be reaching too far back?

 

[ChairmanMao]

one of them "What do you feel is your most significant non-academic accomplishment?" leaves me wondering a question to myself. if i answer this using a high school experience, do you guys think that may be reaching too far back?

I don't recommend something from before you attended college unless it was very, very significant (like you publishing a novel or winning the Olympics). Medical schools and graduate programs really want to see how you've changed and mature since graduating high school and going back to something from high school is kind of reaching the bottom of the barrell.

 

[AdemTD]

I don't recommend something from before you attended college unless it was very, very significant (like you publishing a novel or winning the Olympics). Medical schools and graduate programs really want to see how you've changed and mature since graduating high school and going back to something from high school is kind of reaching the bottom of the barrell.

There was a thread where someone asked the same question. They called the school and the school didn't seem to care when they did the accomplishment. If they wanted the accomplishment to be post-high school, then they'd have explicitly stated that.

 

[creativekat]

I don't recommend something from before you attended college unless it was very, very significant (like you publishing a novel or winning the Olympics). Medical schools and graduate programs really want to see how you've changed and mature since graduating high school and going back to something from high school is kind of reaching the bottom of the barrell.

how about an experience you started in HS but built upon it and expanded it in college?

 

[scarfscarfscarf]

hmm tough call

 

[scarfscarfscarf]

my main issue is that all my extracurricular work/ accomplishments have been in for my AMCAS application. i don't want to sound repetitive, so there's not much for me to write about

 

[scarfscarfscarf]

i hate to bump this topic, but i still feel left in the dark. i want to answer "What do you feel is your most significant non-academic accomplishment?" with something from my college career, but because i've written so much about it in my extracurricular/work section i don't have much left to write about. how did other people tackle this problem?

 

[NeuroChaos]

i hate to bump this topic, but i still feel left in the dark. i want to answer "What do you feel is your most significant non-academic accomplishment?" with something from my college career, but because i've written so much about it in my extracurricular/work section i don't have much left to write about. how did other people tackle this problem?

With five lines as the limit, you cannot be very creative. Pick an EC and describe one specific experience from that EC that you felt was very important. It does not have to be a life changing accomplishment.

 

[scarfscarfscarf]

but would others agree that high school accomplishments might be okay if not specified otherwise?

 

[swamprat]

but would others agree that high school accomplishments might be okay if not specified otherwise?

yeah why not