<p>This summer I have two choices. To be a volunteer at St.Vincents hospital or to be an intern at Mosh (a science museum). Which one looks better for college?</p>
<p>Doing something you are interested in and invest yourself in is your best option. Which would you most look forward to? I think the science museum internship may be a little more unusual.</p>
<p>What are your career plans? What are your interests? If you wanted to become a physician assistant, for example, the hospital spot would help you accumulate the patient contact hours that are required for admission to the PA program. If you are interested in research or teaching or whatever you’d be doing at the museum, than that would be the better choice. It’s better to choose the one that you would most enjoy doing than to guess which would look better on a college application.</p>
<p>The thing is… I’m still undecided on what I want to study in college!</p>
<p>I feel like hospital volunteer is so overdone that it wouldn’t stand out much to colleges. Assuming you have no preference in major yet, I’d go with the museum internship because you can spin that experience in a lot of different directions.</p>
<p>This kind of questions come up every now and then. Remember, anything you choose should not be depending on how it looks on your college application. Think about where your passion is. It is not a checklist of requirement you need to fulfill, it is showing who you are.</p>
<p>It sounds like you would be happy with either choice. Is the internship more difficult to get into than volunteering? Then choose that. You can always volunteer at a hospital another time. Also, you could do both. You could volunteer one evening a week at the hospital. They are pretty flexible with schedules and they are open all the time.<br>
if you want to go in to medicine, you will have plenty of time to volunteer in college.</p>
<p>I think they are both pretty common, both nice things to do and both look the same to colleges.</p>