Volunteering question

[doctry23]

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I've been volunteering at this elementary school for 3 years now since freshmen year, tutoring low-income students after school in science and math, but this semester I am getting an opportunity to switch to night volunteering and tutor adults who are trying to get their GED. I think I'd enjoy both equally, so just wanted to see whether one volunteering opportunity sounds better to SDN/med schools, etc.

Also, if I was volunteering/tutoring at schools because I needed hours for my educational classes - does this still go under non-clinical volunteering hours?

 

[LizzyM]

One is not better than the other. Do as you please.

People list activities in the experience section for which they get college credit including research and unpaid experience in clinical and non-clinical settings. You can list this as non-clinical volunteering.

 

[LizzyM]

I am assuming this does not extend to "research classes," correct? Where you like pick from an "experiments to do" list and where the expected result is already known, and you go to lab 1-5 T/Th, and get a grade on how well you carried it out. I've been operating on the assumption that this doesn't count because it seems silly to call it "research" for a multitude of reasons but if I'm wrong about that, given that I'll only be applying with like 250-500 it'd be nice to have some extra research hours on my app xD

Like I'm pretty sure it's not but I just want to double check

No, I understand research to mean systematic investigations to create new knowledge.

 

[Styrene]

I tutored adults for GED/TASC as premed. Great experience. Recommend.

I've been volunteering at this elementary school for 3 years now since freshmen year, tutoring low-income students after school in science and math, but this semester I am getting an opportunity to switch to night volunteering and tutor adults who are trying to get their GED. I think I'd enjoy both equally, so just wanted to see whether one volunteering opportunity sounds better to SDN/med schools, etc.

Also, if I was volunteering/tutoring at schools because I needed hours for my educational classes - does this still go under non-clinical volunteering hours?