After you hit the reply button, but before your response appeared, I amended my post slightly to cover your concern. Everyone knows the purpose of Ronald McDonald House, so no need to explain.
1) Looks fine.
Yes. It won't look "bad." As you use the space to describe those activities' impact and insights gained, you will no doubt touch on aspects that are desirable in a candidate for med school.
1) Ideally they'd both have their own space, but if you've run out of slots, grouping is fine, but all the header for the first must also be entered in the narrative box for the second. Each has its own date span, hours, contact, location, etc.
I think it's better under a Research tag.
Leadership experiences are often presented best within the context of the original related activity. When mentioned there, you state the date span, hours, and and added duties. The title of the activity should include your leadership role.
Correct that your research needn't be re-explained. The poster titles are probably enough to jog a memory.
I suggest you list date span one and use the narrative to explain the future plan, adding "I expect my involvement during the next academic year to total another xxx hours."
Adcomms will be more interested in what you did after HS graduation, but you can still touch on the back story and briefly reference multiple past awards won in your narrative space.
1) See response above to Boogy'sChick post.1) I did competitions for short fiction writing in high school and won 1-2 awards every year, but did not compete in anything after entering college. I still write generously, but only in personal journals. Another hobby of mine is beauty -
2) When I want to relax I play with makeup and watch "beauty guru" videos on youtube. I'm not in any way a professional, though, and don't get thousands of likes on my instagram/twitter/etc. Should I bother mentioning either of these hobbies even though they don't have any tangible products that I could show off?
3) I don't want adcoms to think I'm just a pre-med freak who does nothing outside of school...I also religiously go to the gym 5 days a week to relax but I doubt they would care for that
I strongly recommend including a Hobbies entry. Every Secondary doesn't allow for an opportunity to mention leisuretime activities.
You may call it Community Service, as I believe it is stipended without SS, income tax, or Medicare deducted ( tho eventually you have to claim the income). Even if you label it Teaching or Employment, Americorps is widely understood by Adcomms to be a community service.
Hobbies don't require a Contact.
If you can't get a precise number from old work stubs or bank deposits that you can base a work-hour calculation on, then just give it your best shot. It doesn't have to be perfect, so long as a Contact will back you up.
Yes, so long as you have another entry for Research, using Emoplyment is fine.
If you don't have another Leadership entry, and if the leadership component's hours are strong enough to stand on their own, and if you need more space for description, and especially if you are a candidate for highly-selective, research-oriented med schools, then you should split out the two components of this activity.
You can include impact, insights, and personal growth in any non-Most Meaningful entry if you have room.
1) Options for sneaking in mention of a future activity are:2) how do you enter something you will be doing over the summer? I was awarded a research scholarship to do conduct research at another uni over the summer. It's sort of like an REU. I have a section in Work/Activities called academic recognition where I listed all of my awards, and I included that there. Should that be enough? I'm planning on mentioning the experience further in my update.
2) Also, going off that note, I know that you shouldn't put any award from high school unless it actually matters. Would National AP Scholar be good enough to include? Or US Presidential Scholar Candidate?
1) Does the published abstract have a PubMed ID#? Then it's a Publication. The associated presentation can be mentioned in the same space.
If you want to use a continuous date range in the header for an activity that was not continuous, then name the activity something that suggests intermittency, like adding "Academic Year" to your title, as well as explaining in the narrative.
Thank you Catalystik. Your help is appreciated immensely!
IMO the local posters belong in the Research space. You can truncate the titles and author lists if needed to help them fit.
That sounds fine.
