"Undergraduate" / "College" Synonymous? (Secondaries)

[MedPR]

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So school A asks about volunteering/ECs during "undergraduate." While school B asks about volunteering/ECs during "college."

If I'm doing a post-bacc (technically in college) should I answer the question for school A the same way I answered for school B? Or is school A really asking only about undergraduate?

 

[FrkyBgStok]

Haha. Man, after following your posts the last couple weeks, you are really freaking about the minor stuff. That's ok. It is huge thing and it would suck to screw up something minor. Remember that these applications are set up for traditional students so be concise but include the awesome stuff after high school and before med school. But you are doing fine.

 

[MedPR]

Haha. Man, after following your posts the last couple weeks, you are really freaking about the minor stuff. That's ok. It is huge thing and it would suck to screw up something minor. Remember that these applications are set up for traditional students so be concise but include the awesome stuff after high school and before med school. But you are doing fine.

Haha yea, everytime I start a thread or make a post like this I just know someone's going to call me out on it.

I know they're made for traditionals, and that's why I was thrown off by this school using the term "college" instead of "undergraduate." I've done a lot since completing undergrad and I don't want to not put it on a secondary, but I also don't want to "break the rules".

 

[theseeker4]

Haha yea, everytime I start a thread or make a post like this I just know someone's going to call me out on it.

I know they're made for traditionals, and that's why I was thrown off by this school using the term "college" instead of "undergraduate." I've done a lot since completing undergrad and I don't want to not put it on a secondary, but I also don't want to "break the rules".

Don't worry, they aren't going to penalize you because you put something in the essay that the author of the essay prompt didn't exactly have in mind when he made it up. Talk about what you want in the secondary essays, as long as you can at least justify to yourself that you are following the prompt.

 

[TriagePreMed]

Some would consider "post-bacc" to still be "undergraduate" because it's undergraduate level coursework.

 

[notbobtrustme]

It's up to you to highlight your own life. If you want to talk about what you did during your post-bacc, make that clear in the essay.

 

[MedPR]

Some would consider "post-bacc" to still be "undergraduate" because it's undergraduate level coursework.

That's true, though AACOMAS does consider "pb" different from "ug" so who knows :/

I suppose I'll talk about anything I've done from freshman year through now without making the distinction of pre/post graduation.