<p>If I shadowed a physician during the summer AFTER senior year of high school (summer before college starts), will those hours count for college?</p>
<p>For my high school, if you did volunteer work during the summer before freshman year, it counted towards middle school hours which was pointless, so I was just wondering.</p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>I dont think so…since you haven’t officially begun. You probably should get more hours anyway. I am doing it every summer and during the school year. So that one summer wont matter much.</p>
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<p>thery do count. anything after graduating hs counts.</p>
<p>who is counting? From what I understand, it is pretty much your word on the amount of actual hours that you shadow or volunteer. My son keeps a “diary” and writes down everything he did and his thoughts about each experience. He started shadowing plastic surgeons in HS. He will have a log to review before any interviews.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I’m curious about that. How would you even verify the amount of hours you volunteered/shadowed? Who actually is counting (other than you of course)?</p>
<p>Get the doctor you are shadowing to write a LOR for you touching on how your time was spent with them.
The actual number of hours declared is by the honor system.</p>
<p>I think it counts. But why not to do more shadowing/volunteering? Hours are very unimportant. However, you might be asked about any of your experiences at Med. School interviews (my D. was asked about shadowing among others). You need to understand why you personally doing it (not in general, not because everybody else is doing it) and you need to state clearly what you have gained out of it (again in personal terms, not general type of answer). So, forget hours, gain as much experience out of it and from your own personal prospective. Keep in mind what has impressed you personally the most. The same for volunteering, although D. had long term volunteering commitment along with some shorter experiences. But again, hours were not important, she had some very memorable experiences that she has even shared with us, without breaking rulles of HIPPAA, of course. They actually were very interesting and “touchy”.</p>
<p>I disagree. I think hours are very important and they show the amount of experience/ meaningfulness gained from the shadowing.</p>
<p>^was not in my D’s application. Got accepted to couple top 20’s.</p>