<p>When filling out you app. for med schools, can you use something you did in high school if it was something like a really long and extensive shadowing/internship type experience? i think its only what occurs AFTER HS graduation but i just wanted to be 100% sure! thanks</p>
<p>the EC's you did in high school don't count for much. They wanna see what you did during your college years.</p>
<p>Unless it's a prestigous award or something you plan to continue into college, I wouldn't put it.</p>
<p>So what if... I do a shadowing program every summer and I have already done it a few years in high school and plan to continue in the summers of my college career? Would I list that as one collective experience or what? How does it work when you are filling in the "experiences" part of your app. to med schools??</p>
<p>ONLY put the time spent after HS graduation in the post-secondary experiences portion of the AMCAS. There's no reason to list hs achievements, and given the fine-tooth comb they run other things through, I don't doubt that they give particular attention to the post-secondary experiences as well. They may change dates to correspond with your HS graduation, or make some sort of note on your application (they put "X"'s next to corrected items. If I remember correctly, if you get more than 10 X's they don't certify your application and it won't get sent out until you've corrected the errors or something...I don't remember the exact consequences).</p>
<p>If your experiences in HS played a significant role in your decision to become a physician, then that sort of information needs to be put in your personal statement or brought up in interviews (or both).</p>
<p>I got 37 X's. AMCAS did not penalize me, but it is of course impossible to know how medical schools felt about it.</p>
<p>What if you are a Presidential Scholar or NMF or Intel Finalist or Seimens Finalist? I am not any of these so I don't have to worry, but can one write these things on med school applications (just curious)? I do have a very prestigeous internship right now and it would be nice if I could mention it in med school applications, but I hope I do some meaningful stuff these next 4 years.</p>
<p>37?!?</p>
<p>I got like 2...</p>
<p>NMF - ehh, not that big of deal later on.</p>
<p>If you were a Siemens or Intel finalist, you would likely not just stop doing research. Students who get actually get chosen as even semi-finalists are undertaking some serious projects. And again, things can always be brought up in the personal statement or the interview.</p>
<p>1.) You cannot write them on the official list of things, but you could certainly write about them in essays and mention them in interviews in such. In fact, I would advise you to.</p>
<p>2.) Yeah, AMCAS doesn't like me very much.</p>
<p>3.) 37 was an estimate off the top of my head. I just recounted. It's actually 41.</p>