<p>Things like doing well in Intel, Siemens, International Chem Olympiad, etc. Are you able to mention these things in med school applications; and will selection committees care?</p>
<p>Generally speaking medical schools are only interested in achievements from your college years. I don’t think that you’re supposed to list anything (except publications) from before college. But I could be wrong…</p>
<p>Your AMCAS application only has a limited number (15) of slots to list all your work/experiences/research/awards and these are listed in chronological order–most recent first.</p>
<p>See p. 54 of the 2012 AMCAS Instruction Manual</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/download/131750/data/2012amcasinstructionmanual.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/download/131750/data/2012amcasinstructionmanual.pdf</a></p>
<p>Not much, research is something of an exception, if you have real publications, but they may not be as effective as if you received them during college. Further, you are allowed to list anything you continued from high school (for example, hospital volunteering starting in high school and continuing through college as well).</p>
<p>If you win Intel, I would put it. Otherwise, no.</p>
<p>I would not put any high school athletics, clubs, school leadership positions or high school specific activities.</p>
<p>So, on average how many hours of volunteering do most medical school applicants have (counting all the way from high school to the end of college?)</p>
<p>High school hours don’t count for medical school admissions.</p>
<p>I would guess that most applicants have a couple hundred hours of volunteering during college. High school hours aren’t really going to impress even if they are contiguous with college hours. I was merely stating that it was possible to list them if they were contiguous.</p>
<p>never thought about that, but what mmmcdowe said makes sense. If you’re still shadowing the same doc/hospital or working in the same lab as you did in high school then you should say that you started it while in high school, otherwise, leave virtually anything from high school in high school.</p>
<p>Also, shadowing is not really about the hours but about the experience (i.e. what you get out of it, how you can talk about it). I actually don’t know if what I’m about to say is true, but I would imagine that shadowing one doc for 200 hours (arbitrary number) isn’t necessarily any better than 100 hours total with 10 docs in different specialties and different styles of practice (e.g. academic, private hospital, public hospital, solo practice, group practice). If anything, the latter might be better since you can now intelligently talk about seeing what different types of doctors do instead of only having essentially one experience with medicine.</p>
<p>No, not at all. D. did not include her job at Med. Research lab during HS, althugh she has learned a lot and her experience has helped her with Med. Research nternship during college.</p>