<p>Anyone have any advice or pointers on filling out the AMCAS application? Anyone run into any problems with it?</p>
<p>Send in transcripts early, if sent later it could take a while to verify (due to bulk influx...)</p>
<p>for the section where they ask about your parents it seems they are mainly interested in parents who are in a health profession. Neither of my parents are.</p>
<p>Anyone know what the significance of this question is?</p>
<p>Historically, there was some advantage to being from a medical family. It's often suspected that there still is.</p>
<p>for coursework....did you list AP/IB credit under fall semester of freshman year? On my transcript its just listed at the end under "remarks".</p>
<p>That's what I did, but it's actually classified that way on my transcript. Not sure what somebody in your position should do.</p>
<p>Somewhere in the help file, it tells you what to do with AP credits. In fact, that's my advice on the AMCAS: read the help sections really, really carefully.</p>
<p>i agree....but i read the help section on IB credits and it doesn't say anything about where to place them if they aren't assigned to a specific semester</p>
<p>I definitely got burned by not reading that. I ended up with gigantic red X's all over my application. Who knows whether that hurt me.</p>
<p>for the work/activities section: If you have paid research (non-lab) experience do you categorize that as "paid employment" or "research/lab"? I know there's no right answer to this I just want to get some opinions.</p>
<p>any advice on listing multiple abstracts from one experience. I have the experience listed as "research" but I am not sure how to list the abstracts. Should I make another experience that is "publications" and list them all there or just list them in the description of the experience? I can't list them individually since i already have 13 experiences listed and besides it would totally look like padding. Also some of them were abstracts that were presented as posters which I didn't personally present. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>If they're from the same research experience, I'd group them together -- possibly even with that experience, or just on their own.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd somehow group posters and abstracts into the same place as the research experience. The only think I'd list as a publication would be if a paper came out of the research experience. At least, that's how I would've done it.</p>
<p>thanks...</p>
<p>another question: I was reading on studentdoctor that diversity in activity classification is important which is understandable however someone was talking about some scoring system where they assign different categories a certain number of "points"...is this true? (i'd like to think its not). </p>
<p>This goes back to my question from above...if you get paid for research is it a better idea to categorize it as research or as paid employment? I would think that the latter would carry more weight since if your getting paid for it you must be good at it and are sticking to a pretty strict schedule. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Classify research as research. That is the most specific category. I would only put jobs that don't fit into the other categories (ie non-clinical, non-research jobs) into the "paid employment" category.</p>
<p>I would imagine that different admissions committees handle EC diversity differently, BUT that very few would do it as you describe.</p>
<p>thanks norcal and BDM</p>
<p>I would also recommend looking over this thread. it is still active after 2 years. For 08, I think it starts on page 10. Great</a> tips for entering your "Work/Activities" for AMCAS 2006 - Page 11 - Student Doctor Network Forums</p>
<p>thanks!!</p>
<p>looks like i have alot to sift through :D</p>