Applicants often focus heavily on perfecting their personal statements while neglecting the importance of their Work and Activities section.
Most applicants do not realize that the Work and Activities section will appear prior to the personal statement, creating their first impression of you.
The Work and Activities section offers the opportunity to show the schools who you are, what you care about, and what you learned from each experience. We want to lean into the Core Competencies when writing them to highlight the attributes they are measuring.
The Work and Activities section is where you include the details: of whom you worked with, how many hours you spent on each activity, what you achieved, what you learned, and so on. With only 600-700 characters, this is not the space for storytelling.
AMCAS is the only application system that limits you to 15 experiences and includes the three most meaningful. All other applications have unlimited entries.
Another misconception people have is that only "clinical" or related experiences can go in there. That is absolutely not true! You want to include everything you did because that is how they understand you and your journey. If you leave out the work you did in college, they will not know that you had to work to support yourself. If you leave out an important hobby that defines you, they'll never know you have a way to relax.
I recommend starting your experience descriptions by first listing out everything you've done since graduating high school. From there, you can think about what you learned about yourself from each one. I'll explain more in our individual appointments and in the seminar how to write them!
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