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Hi, UC Davis requires 180 hours, but the admitted students have 2500 to 3000 hours. Does that mean even with maybe 500 hours, they won't accept you?
kate_g said:I *hope* there are also people with experience more like mine, and to those people I ask: Did you just estimate? How closely did you try to judge, and were you conservative or generous in guessing? I don't necessarily want to fudge, but also I don't want to shortchange myself just to avoid fudging.
That's what I figured, too. So the stupid thing is now, do I estimate my hours generously to keep up? Or do I err on the side of honesty and maybe end up looking like a "worse" applicant for a really stupid reason? For instance, I volunteered in a shelter hospital from some time at the end of '98 or maybe the beginning of '99 (I don't even remember) until the middle of 2000. I worked 4 (or was it 6?) hours every Sunday, and maybe another 4 on some Wednesdays (I really don't remember) and other odd days for special events. There are no W-2s because I wasn't paid, and the shelter was way too disorganized to do something like log volunteer hours. None of the same people even work there anymore. But when it comes right down to it, I pilled cats, gave eye ointment and ear drops, injected insulin and ketamine, drew blood, hosed out kennels, dished out food, syringe-fed anorexic cats, administered fluids... After the first hundred or so times doing each of those things, either you've got it or you don't no matter how many more hours you spend at it, right? OK, so there are the rare events (bullet removal, seizures), and the fact that the longer I spent there the more I was trusted with (placing catheters). I guess I just hope verbal_kint was right and the actual number matters less than what you can demonstrate having learned.HorseyVet said:I honestly think at least half the people applying grossly inflate their hours.
kate_g said:That's what I figured, too. So the stupid thing is now, do I estimate my hours generously to keep up? Or do I err on the side of honesty and maybe end up looking like a "worse" applicant for a really stupid reason? ... I guess I just hope verbal_kint was right and the actual number matters less than what you can demonstrate having learned.