<p>Hello I am currently volunteering with a medical organization.
My question is that if I volunteer with different parts of the organization, does that only count as 1 EC.
For example: translation, warehouse...</p>
<p>It’s up to you on how to present your ECs.</p>
<p>For example (just one of many ways to list an EC);</p>
<p>Volunteered at X from Y to Z. …blah…blah…worked at translation for …worked at warehouse…worked at something else…so many hours a week.</p>
<p>Or </p>
<p>Volunteered at X doing translation from Y to Z…was responsible for …so many hours a week.</p>
<p>Volunteered at X doing warehouse from C to D…</p>
<p>Volunteered at X doing something else from E to F…helped design a new process…</p>
<p>Normally, you will be limited in application space for listing your EC’s, so the first option (combine everything for one organization into a single EC) is typical. However, if your EC’s are limited(for example, you spent much of your free time working with this one organization), and you want to expand the description of what you did for each part, then go ahead with multiple listings.</p>
<p>I would say it depends on the hours of involvement and the nature of the volunteering. If it is significant enough, separate them. If not, combine them together. Also, it may depend on the available space. CommonApp only allows up to 10 activities.</p>
<p>It’s not going to matter. </p>
<p>Most colleges pay little or no attention to EC’s. So at most schools regardless of whether you split out what you did or lump it all together you will get the checkmark that says took part in ECs. You can look at the common data set filing for schools you are interested in to see how much weight they give to ECs. </p>
<p>On the other hand, for schools that care a lot about ECs just racking up volunteer hours is not going to be a strong EC. So if you’re looking at a school in the top 100 or so, either way you do it you are still not going to end up with something that will impress an Adcom.</p>