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AMCAS/AACOMAS Application & Activities Review

Your activities brought to life

AMCAS Activities Editing

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he activities section on the AMCAS application & AACOMAS application is your chance to show medical schools what you have been doing up until you have applied. This will include all your medically related activities, but also your non-medical ones. This is your resume, ready to shine. The AMCAS activities section requires describing your experiences succinctly and with purpose. We will help you stand out against your peers. We will also help you develop your AMCAS Most Meaningful Experiences section into written material that medical school admissions committees will enjoy reading. This relatively new section on the AMCAS activities is proving to be the most important. The Meaningful Activities section is what gets read before your interview, so be sure to make it stand out. MedSchoolCoach provides you the help you need to write your activities and describe them clearly and powerfully.

Our Application Review Package Includes
  • Pre-Review: A review of your resume to identify the most important and interesting activities to list on your AACOMAS or AMCAS application.
  • Content Review: Review each of your activity descriptions in detail for content, as well as grammar, to assure that they will jump off the page to medical school admissions committee members.
  • Most Meaningful Activity Review: A complete review of your most significant activities to make sure your strengths and significant accomplishments are conveyed to the admissions committee.
  • Other Information Review: If you are applying as a disadvantaged applicant, or need help writing about your academic misconducts, we help you craft these mini essays.
  • Multiple edits: Our multiple edit packages offer you the chance to really solidify your AMCAS activities section and make sure everything is perfect before you submit.

  • Editing Plans

  • Talk with an advisor about which activities you should include in your AMCAS and which you should designate as most meaningfulPre-Review
  • Review each of your activity descriptions in detail for content, as well as grammar, to assure that they will jump off the page to medical school admissions committee members.Content Review
  • Thorough review of your three most meaningful activities mini-essaysMost Meaningful Activity Review
  • Number of Edits

  • polishing

  • $250

    one edit

  • no
  • yes
  • yes
  • One

  • extensive

  • $350

    three edits

  • yes
  • yes
  • yes
  • Three

  • unlimited

  • $600

    unlimited edits

  • yes
  • yes
  • yes
  • Unlimited

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AMCAS & AACOMAS Activities Tips

Your activities section on the AMCAS application should be both brief and meaningful. As one adcom put it, “we want both — brevity and meaningful information. Brevity because we have to read too many applications and wish to be fair to all. Meaningful information because we can’t interview everyone who is “academically qualified” and so the depth and extent of extra-curricular activities are very important — as has been said before, the more we can find out, the better equipped we are to make decisions.”

The following are tips from Dr Liliana Montano, Assistant Dean of Admissions at Weill Cornell Medical College

  • Think carefully about which kind of experiences were really meaningful to you — don’t try to fill out space. We are very good at recognizing bs.
  • High school activities are important only to underline continuity during college at increased levels of participation, leadership or responsibility (e.g., you’ve played a musical instrument, participated in the high school orchestra and are now in the college orchestra, etc.)
  • Don’t repeat what’s obvious from answers to things like experience type, title description, contact name & title or organization name (e.g, don’t repeat in the description that you worked on research with Dr. So and So — that information is above the description of your experience).
  • If the organization in which you participated is not well known, give a brief description followed by the role you played there, specially if it involved any type of responsibility.
  • If you made Dean’s list (or any type of honor like that) for more than one semester, use the description area to list the other semesters.
  • If you received any scholarship, fellowship or other honor that is not nationally recognizable, describe it briefly. Don’t waste paper on scholarships that are awarded to half the population at the school.
  • If you were just a member of an organization, let us know how many meetings/week you attended and why you joined.
  • If you list a publication, make sure it’s been accepted for publication and cite it properly. If the paper is just being “prepared for submission” or “submitted,” include this fact as part of the research description in the part where you listed the research activity.
  • If listing a research experience that extends through the academic year as well as summer, use the description area to let us know the time invested during each of those periods (e.g., full time during the summer, 10 hrs/week in the fall/spring blah blah blah)
  • Remember that each experience you list is “up for grabs” if you are invited to interview — you might be asked anything about it and it can make you or break you.
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