Tutoring

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[Dr. Brightside]

I do both and I'd say tutoring kids is actually quite a bit more difficult compared to tutoring a course you excelled in to other college students, but schools may like to see some peer teaching/mentoring experiences. It probably shouldn't matter, though.

 

[Catalystik]

This may be a suuuuuper stupid question, but is tutoring other college kids (say as a paid tutor) than tutoring underserved high school/middle school kids?
I've been doing the second option for a while now but since it's technically harder to teach more advanced subjects to college kids, I don't know if one is better than the other, and by how much if it is.

One point of Teaching being of value to your application is a demonstration of your ability to effectively convey information to others, which is something a doc does every day. Both of your experiences are good ones, if you are doing your job properly. Gracefully fielding difficult questions from college students might be looked at as about on par with inspiring younger students to retain information that they don't necessarily care to learn. That said, volunteering or working in a poor school district, if it gets you off campus and out of your comfort zone, will likely get you more "points" from adcomms.