DZinTheGame
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Hello everyone,
I'm currently in the process of writing my Work/Activities section and I have some questions (I'm an international student and I have no access to any particular advising so google/reddit/SDN are my only sources of information about the process).
I didn't think about the AMCAS application much before but now I came to realize that due to having 15 entries limit I might not be able to include the section where I list my awards or the section where I talk about conferences attended (I also participated in planning some conferences/research symposiums).
1. Is it possible for me to just include the awards/posters/conferences in the publications section? If so, how should I use my description space because I heard we shouldn't do bullet points? or should I make an entire section for the awards/conferences and just mention the publications/posters in the description of the Research Lab experience ??
2. I have a TAing experience which I wrote on a single section but I also have 2 other tutoring experiences, one through the Academic Resources Center of my university and it targets freshmen (I have been doing that for 3ys now); the other one is way more significant, it's a non-profit that I joined as a tutor for children (grade 7-12) but later came up with the idea (and was tasked to lead it) of a sub-project in this tutoring service that is tailored towards kids from marginalized groups and it provides a long term mentorship service - is it better if I group the two experiences in one section(leadership) and just try to cram both in 700chars?? (mind you I already exhausted all 3 of my most meaningfuls)
3. I listed "SCUBA Diving" as a hobby, I am certified and I was professionally trained to do it; can I just use the same section to speak about my volunteering experience with my diving club?(It was meaningful to me but I didn't do it for a long time so I definitely don't want to give it an entire section and I don't want to list my hobby as EC or service neither)
4. I have a problem with classifying some of my activities, for some of them I started as a volunteer and grew into a leadership position, do you think it would be better to classify them as "leadership" activities instead of community service/EC ? Moreover, in the case where I had various positions (like being editor then editor in chief or being member then president) should I mention all the positions in the experience title or the most recent is enough?? (Im already writing about my differnet roles in the description)
5. Similar to previous question but I see that many activities can be put in multiple categories, is it better if I try to have as many categories represented as possible or should I just classify them as I see the most fit ?
Thank you very much!
I'm currently in the process of writing my Work/Activities section and I have some questions (I'm an international student and I have no access to any particular advising so google/reddit/SDN are my only sources of information about the process).
I didn't think about the AMCAS application much before but now I came to realize that due to having 15 entries limit I might not be able to include the section where I list my awards or the section where I talk about conferences attended (I also participated in planning some conferences/research symposiums).
1. Is it possible for me to just include the awards/posters/conferences in the publications section? If so, how should I use my description space because I heard we shouldn't do bullet points? or should I make an entire section for the awards/conferences and just mention the publications/posters in the description of the Research Lab experience ??
2. I have a TAing experience which I wrote on a single section but I also have 2 other tutoring experiences, one through the Academic Resources Center of my university and it targets freshmen (I have been doing that for 3ys now); the other one is way more significant, it's a non-profit that I joined as a tutor for children (grade 7-12) but later came up with the idea (and was tasked to lead it) of a sub-project in this tutoring service that is tailored towards kids from marginalized groups and it provides a long term mentorship service - is it better if I group the two experiences in one section(leadership) and just try to cram both in 700chars?? (mind you I already exhausted all 3 of my most meaningfuls)
3. I listed "SCUBA Diving" as a hobby, I am certified and I was professionally trained to do it; can I just use the same section to speak about my volunteering experience with my diving club?(It was meaningful to me but I didn't do it for a long time so I definitely don't want to give it an entire section and I don't want to list my hobby as EC or service neither)
4. I have a problem with classifying some of my activities, for some of them I started as a volunteer and grew into a leadership position, do you think it would be better to classify them as "leadership" activities instead of community service/EC ? Moreover, in the case where I had various positions (like being editor then editor in chief or being member then president) should I mention all the positions in the experience title or the most recent is enough?? (Im already writing about my differnet roles in the description)
5. Similar to previous question but I see that many activities can be put in multiple categories, is it better if I try to have as many categories represented as possible or should I just classify them as I see the most fit ?
Thank you very much!