extracurriculars the summer before freshman year

nooob
Sun, 10 May 2009 04:09:28 +0000

1) Do med school applications count activities done during the summer before freshman year?

2) I have two options of volunteering:

apply to a hospital, fill out complicated paper work, take a TB test, volunteer for a minimum of a few months, etc.
go to a clinic (have a friend that’s a doctor there) and help nurses check in patients (no official paper work, etc.)


Do both count equally as “volunteering in a hospital”? Obviously the first one seems more official but the second one is a lot easier to schedule and there are no pressures as to when I could help.

3) Does a job count as an extracurricular to med schools? What is better, working at a job this whole summer or volunteering this whole summer?

Thanks!