Should I include this research poster and preprint on my AMCAS application?

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This is my first time posting on SDN, so my apologies if I made any mistakes.

1. ⁠I took a quarter-long seminar class where we developed and executed a research project with a professor. At the end, we wrote an abstract that was accepted at a national conference and presented by the professor as a poster. The professor said she was going to include all of our names as authors and that we could include it on our CVs, but when I look up the abstract in the official conference proceedings online it only has the professor’s name on it. Should I not include it on my AMCAS application since my name doesn’t show up on the abstract online? Also, I’m wondering if I can’t include it because the research was done as part of a class.

2. ⁠For the actual research lab I was part of, I’m the second author on a paper that was accepted to bioRxiv as a preprint (not peer-reviewed) back in 2022. I ended up leaving the lab a few months later, and the paper was never published in a peer-reviewed journal. Is this worth including or could it make me seem like I don’t follow things through to the finish?

If I don’t include either of these, then I only have a presentation at my school’s undergraduate research conference from my research lab to show for my research productivity. Thank you for any advice about whether to include those on my application!
 
1. I would say don't include it if "we" is the whole class and the professor didn't include your names.
2. Definitely include this, but make sure you notate that this is a bioRxiv paper and add something like "(completed/unpublished manuscript)" at the end of the citation to make it clear that this paper has not been submitted for peer review at any point.
 
1. Get a copy of the final poster from the professor. She might have included your names as authors on the poster title, but for whatever reason it never made it to the abstract.
2. Definitely include, but make it clear that it was a preprint
 
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