LizzyM said: The adcom knows what volunteering at an ortho clinic involves. Use a few simple phrases such as, "Assisted physicians with casting" if you feel the need. Don't wear out your welcome by putting stories in the EC section. I don't need to know that you "made up gurneys, stocked shelves, ran errands for staff members, delivered lab samples, made coffee, blah, blah, blah." Click to expand...

WOW, the audacity of some adcom members blows my mind. I can't stand this attitude of "we know everything you mindless little peons, stop insulting our almighty intelligence". I applied last year in late October and didn't get in. Obviously I was really late but I did not want to apply without knowing my scores. Imagine dropping $600 and finding out your score was less than competitive. Ouch. That would have hurt more than not getting in. Anyway, I called to get feedback on my application package from several schools. One adcom member wrote me back after a "detailed review" of my application. This person actually told me that I should continue my volunteer work b/c the adcoms look for volunteer experience of at least one years duration. This blew me away. I had my voluteer work listed on my work/activities section which clearly indicated I had been doing it for over 2 years. My personal statement also said in my work at XXX hospital, where I have been volunteering for over 2 years. Additionally, the secondary for that school asked me about my volunteer experiences and as a result I told them for the third time I had volunteered for over two years at this hospital. To put the cherry on top I had a nurse from the hospital I volunteer at write me a LOR. So this school was told that I had been volunteering for over two years FOUR TIMES and they tell me they need at least a years worth of volunteer work to consider it substantial. Maybe what they meant was that they want one years worth of volunteer work = to 2000 hours, but I seriously doubt this. So given all this I have a very VERY hard time believing that I should let adcoms make assumptions about anything, especially based on a simple title of my work/activity section. I can't make an adcom member read anything on my application. If they don't want to know the details they won't read them but I'd be an ass to hope that they were going to read my mind and assume certain things.