Thoughts on ECs for this semester?

[fishs]

Hi guys!

I was just wondering what y'all thought about my EC's for this semester. I'm going into my sophomore year. I didn't really do much this summer, as I had some plans that ended up falling through/general difficulties. I did clinical volunteering twice a week. Now, as this semester starts, here is my plan: I am on the e-board of a smaller premed club at my school, I am going to be volunteering at a Title I school for a couple hours each week, and I am continuing to work in a lab that I started in last semester. I worry about if I should add some clinical volunteering, but the hospital in my college town requires a time commitment, and I'm not sure if I can balance it with my homework during the week. Is it worth it to try to squeeze it in, or is what I'm already doing enough?

Thanks for any advice

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[Mr.Smile12]

Strong non-clinical community service activities show service orientation outside of a clinical setting (minimum 150 hours total by the time you submit your application to avoid getting screened out). Examples include food distribution, job/tax services, shelter work, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. Teaching/tutoring is overrepresented among prehealth students, and it shows academic competency. Working in education is more meaningful if you were employed as a teacher at a Title 1 school. In terms of paying it forward, I think tutoring at a school is very helpful, but tons of premeds tutor K-12 students.

 

[fishs]

Strong non-clinical community service activities show service orientation outside of a clinical setting (minimum 150 hours total by the time you submit your application to avoid getting screened out). Examples include food distribution, job/tax services, shelter work, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. Teaching/tutoring is overrepresented among prehealth students, and it shows academic competency. Working in education is more meaningful if you were employed as a teacher at a Title 1 school. In terms of paying it forward, I think tutoring at a school is very helpful, but tons of premeds tutor K-12 students.

Thank you for your input. The volunteering I'm doing seems to be more of a "mentoring" thing. It's described as a "helping immigrant students throughout the day" sort of thing. The students I work with speak limited english, but I'm not going to be teaching them english really. Does that also fall under tutoring/teaching?

 

[alwaysrunning]

What is the time requirement for clinical volunteering at the hospital versus the volunteering at the school?

 

[fishs]

What is the time requirement for clinical volunteering at the hospital versus the volunteering at the school?

There isn't really a big difference- 3hrs/week at the school and 4 at the hospital. I guess my thought was that I had already started with som clinical volunteering but didn't really have any nonclinical. I also realize that volunteering 7 hours a week isn't that much, but I am not able to do these on the weekends. And I don't to overcommit myself and have to drop one of them midway through.