<p>Does unpaid work at lets say a med clinic count as "extracurricular, personal and volunteer activities" or "work experience"? How about unpaid volunteer activity in a camp? And finally how about unpaid volunteer activity in the 2004 political campaigns. </p>
<p>I realize that the med clinic sounds like a job. The camp sounds like community service and the 2004 political campaign may sound like a job but probably not community service. </p>
<p>What are they classified as? Anyone?</p>
<p>If you got hours for it, it's community service. If it's an internship (no hours, no money, just experience gained), I would put it under work experience.</p>
<p>All are extracurricular, personal and volunteer activities, not work experience. Anything unpaid is volunteer. </p>
<p>Work experience is something that is paid, and you get paychecks and had to fill out a W-2 form when you hired on. You can prove work experience by getting a 1099 at the end of the year to do your taxes with. </p>
<p>Unpaid volunteer activity in the 2004 political campaigns - you just defined it yourself - it is unpaid and volunteer, so it is not a job.</p>
<p>thanks so much for the advice ucmomma. its a great help.</p>
<p>An internship that is just experience gained would be extracurricular, not work experience. Work experience is hooked up with paychecks. Trust me, I am on a committee that reads scholarship applications.</p>
<p>oh ok thanks again ucmomma. ill heed your advice.</p>
<p>Glad to help anytime, red06. Like I said, I read scholarship applications for a certain institution and it pains me to see kids get all mixed up not knowing the definition of things and risk answering things "wrong". With some applications it matters, for some it doesn't. I'm glad for forums like cc where people really help each other.</p>
<p>i sure am glad also. without it, i dont know how i would survive. its also nice to see people have the same problems i do, that im not alone in them.</p>