Volunteering & Shadowing after submitting AADSAS

[Jongho Yoon]

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I am done with DAT and looking forward to do some shadowing & volunteering in June.

I volunteered about 30 hours and shadowed a dentist in korea for about 40 hours.

I am thinking about just writing down on AADSAS about my volunteering and shadowing plans for this month. Would this be helpful do you think? Would adcoms think that I am just rushing to volunteer and shadow to increase my chance?

Also, I found out that I need to do orientation for about 12 hours in order for me to volunteer at the hospital. Did you all have to go through all this too? I think 12-hour orientation is not worth doing it, since I am looking for a long-term volunteering.

I am thinking about at least 40+ hours of shadowing and 20+ hours of volunteering during the summer.

 

[yuppers]

Two things:
1) nothing wrong with continuing to volunteer. I am also going to do so and will continue through my senior year.
2) I think that you should be done (or almost there) with the shadowing already especially if you are planning to apply early.

 

[printer21]

my health advisor told me that if you already started doing a shadowing or volunteering, you can put it down that you started and will continue to such a date.. if you haven't started yet, then it becomes iffy.

 

[Gokes]

I think adding future job shadowing plans is ok and actually at USC this past weekend they encouraged it.