Volunteer on resume??

[fan2342]

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Hi,

So I have been volunteering for over 10 years now and I was wondering if I should include the volunteer activities and events I helped out with during elementary, middle school, and high school on my resume and dental application.
Please let me know

 

[JLT223]

No. Dental schools don't care what you did when you were 10.

 

[fan2342]

No. Dental schools don't care what you did when you were 10.

What about the summer after I graduated high school?

 

[JLT223]

What about the summer after I graduated high school?

That's fine

 

[alexbil]

Any volunteer work that you did that is relevant to why you want to be a dentist will be good even if its from before high school. For example, you say one of the main reasons you want to be a dentist is because you have a passion for helping others, showing that you have been volunteering to help people since you were 10 years old only proves that point...

 

[super frank]

I think it explicitly says on the AADSAS application to refrain from listing activities you were involved with prior to undergrad. Definitely talk about it in your personal statement and supplemental applications though.

 

[Charles_Darwin]

^ I agree with rekker! I shadowed 2 additional dentists while in high school and didn't put that on my AADSAS, but for schools who asked "is there anything outside of your AADSAS that you'd like to add" I put them down