application/resume question

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I absolutely agree with you. I put all of my AOII extracurriculars on my application and would again. There is another area for scholarly activity such as research. Grad school is a different beast so if you don't know about medical school admissions, don't comment about it. People assume that having success at a social level doesn't factor into medical school admissions, but who doesn't want a physician who can empathize with them or at the very least seem like a normal person?

The problem with Greek involvement on any application or resume is that it may very well be read by someone who has a negative opinion of Greeks and Greek Life. I would never put it on a resume myself, given my field, but I think that someone considering it should factor in:

1) What are the odds that your resume will be read by someone anti-Greek? This can depend on your field, your region of the country, etc. For medical school, I'd consider putting affiliation on an application to a school with big Greek life to be less risky than putting it on a school without it, or even one where there had been high-profile RM issues within the past year.

2) What offices have you held? Being president, philanthropy chair, or scholarship chair is probably most impressive to a non-greek. You and I both know that recruitment chair and new member educator are critical positions, but a "layman" just may not care.

3) What does your resume look like without it? If you have nine other activities you are trying to scrunch on, do you really need number ten? If you were just a member of a GLO, compared to an officer in other orgs, you want to emphasize those instead.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

The problem with Greek involvement on any application or resume is that it may very well be read by someone who has a negative opinion of Greeks and Greek Life. I would never put it on a resume myself, given my field, but I think that someone considering it should factor in:

1) What are the odds that your resume will be read by someone anti-Greek? This can depend on your field, your region of the country, etc. For medical school, I'd consider putting affiliation on an application to a school with big Greek life to be less risky than putting it on a school without it, or even one where there had been high-profile RM issues within the past year.

2) What offices have you held? Being president, philanthropy chair, or scholarship chair is probably most impressive to a non-greek. You and I both know that recruitment chair and new member educator are critical positions, but a "layman" just may not care.

3) What does your resume look like without it? If you have nine other activities you are trying to scrunch on, do you really need number ten? If you were just a member of a GLO, compared to an officer in other orgs, you want to emphasize those instead.

I would sure hope that someone attempting to apply to medical school had done more to be involved in college than just be a layman member of their GLO. The idea that you have to be active and well rounded is pretty established. I would agree that if that's all you have on your GLO resume and you have tons of other officer experience in campus organizations, leave it off...but that's not the information we were provided. If you have been very active as an officer in your GLO, absolutely include it. Leadership experience is a definite plus on your med school application. I also doubt the importance of RM issues on the application of qualified applicants. It doesn't work that way. BTW, I did not go to school at a Greek heavy school. Despite being from LSU med school, it is NOT on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. One school is in New Orleans, and the other is in Shreveport (where I went incidentally) the home of very few collegiate Greek chapters.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

...a layperson member of their GLO.