VERY early AMCAS question

[tigress]

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So obviously this is extremely early but I already made two presentations this week so I'm indulging myself after the hard work and just hanging out. I was thinking about AMCAS and what I would put for my post-secondary experiences, and I was wondering how you determine what category something fits in. Like I was a volunteer at bone marrow drives; is that not medical/clincal volunteer? And I gave a lecture to a med school class, so is that leadership, or presentations/posters (it wasn't about research), or what? I mean all of this is totally not important right now, I'm just curious. Does it even matter what category you put? And what order do you put stuff in?

okay truthfully I'm probably procrastinating from studying for the MCAT 😛

edit: oh yeah, and how do you break things up? Like e.g. I graduated from the honors program and wrote a thesis for it, so do I put those together? And my summer research led to a poster and an abstract, and then the poster was at the American Chemical Society meeting, and the abstract got "published" in my school abstract book, so does all that go together?

 

[Aegis]

So obviously this is extremely early but I already made two presentations this week so I'm indulging myself after the hard work and just hanging out. I was thinking about AMCAS and what I would put for my post-secondary experiences, and I was wondering how you determine what category something fits in. Like I was a volunteer at bone marrow drives; is that not medical/clincal volunteer? And I gave a lecture to a med school class, so is that leadership, or presentations/posters (it wasn't about research), or what? I mean all of this is totally not important right now, I'm just curious. Does it even matter what category you put? And what order do you put stuff in?

okay truthfully I'm probably procrastinating from studying for the MCAT 😛

edit: oh yeah, and how do you break things up? Like e.g. I graduated from the honors program and wrote a thesis for it, so do I put those together? And my summer research led to a poster and an abstract, and then the poster was at the American Chemical Society meeting, and the abstract got "published" in my school abstract book, so does all that go together?

I remember thinking the same questions when I filled out my AMCAS. Basically I guessed, I would say your bone marrow thing is medical. They don't seem to be that strict about what category you place things into, whatever you think is closest is most likley right. Now your research is interesting. I think you can probobly get away with adding a different entry for eveything you did with it. I remember I did research and then presented a poster about it at a scholarship day, which I listed as two different experiances on the AMCAS. It probobly comes down to how you word it. I know they just don't want you saying nine different experiances for every time you were on the deans list. Oh if you ask me its too early to start craming for the MCAT, check out this discusion board for my theory on that. http://www.xsorbit3.com/users/gvsupremed/index.cgi?board=MCAT&action=display&num=1101903581 click on the attachment once you get there...Good luck