<p>Adcoms see having a job while going through the rigorous pre-med years as a sign of maturity, time management, responsibility, and overall ability to juggle multiple things while handling the course load. There are a wide range of jobs available to pre-meds, such as cashier, waitress, tutor, CNA, ER scribe, you name it. </p>
<p>Would adcoms look down on tutoring as a job compared to other jobs such as cashier or waitress due to the fact that tutoring is too academic related and oftentimes between student and private consumer?</p>
<p>Lastly, should there be an official “trail/record” of work that you have done? Like explicitly documented? I know that some tutors do not have that kind of documentation other than a person’s word that they tutored. It seems as if anyone can put down “tutoring” as a job on the AAMC work/activity section and get away with it; wouldn’t colleges place little value on tutoring due to knowledge of this fact, especially with other viable jobs out there?</p>
<p>On your AMCAS application, when you list an EC (like tutoring or ER scribe or whatever), you’re asked to list a contact person so that AMCAS or any of the schools you’re applying to can contact that person to verify your participation in the EC.</p>
<p>Some colleges as part of the process for a committee letter require the applicant to list all ECs and get the contact person’s signature verifying the person has done as claimed before the committee will issue a letter.</p>
<p>I can’t see why tutoring would be looked down upon so long as it’s documented. Both my kiddos have been tutors–both paid and volunteer. (At the academic support centers at their respective colleges, full time at the a local CC, hired by a on-campus entity [NROTC] to provide regularly scheduled tutoring services to their members. Also did volunteer tutoring thru non-profit agencies. One was the official [volunteer] math/science tutor for her social organization.)</p>
<p>Individuals who regularly tutor for cash should have been filing self-employment tax returns. (Documentation–plus required by federal law.)</p>
<p>All in all, tutoring without any documentation is a pretty weak EC, IMO.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought so at the moment I am tutoring for an online company as well as for an oncampus academic service. Although the rate is less, I think the official “trail” will serve me better than a few extra bucks from private tutoring.</p>
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-This was my D’s job in UG, the best on campus, position was called “SI” oficially, but it was tutoring. This job led to awesome LOR’s, great conncetions and a leadership medal at graduation in addition to sharpened communication skills and no need to prep in subject for MCAT (Gen. Chem). Well, some pocket money were OK also, not much though. She was doing it for 3 years, sometime teaching class of 40+ explaining material at the board. I do not see anything wrong with that, I believe that you will find that you will understand materilal better yourself after you explain it to others. In addition, D. has not mentioned that her job was discussed at Med. School interviews. The more common subjects were her volunteering and her Minor.</p>