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I have a question concerning the personal statement. How connected do outreach activities need to be? I can list four volunteering activities that I did, but in each one of them I did something different. Each activity is unrelated to the other. Is it good enough to just describe each activity, one per paragraph, and then use the rest of the essay to explain my past research experience? Thank you!

I don't think you need to upload all your transcripts. I attended two undergraduate institutions, but what I did at the other institution had nothing to do with science, so I'm not uploading the transcript I got from there. What I did instead was that I added the name of the institution on the list of past experiences. If the transcript that you're uploading shows a full curriculum, with a number of credits that would be expected for an undergrad, I think that is good enough.

It seems like individual scores don't matter. What determines whether you get a score seems to be whether the reviewer recommends you for an award or not. You can get an idea of whether you are recommended from the "Summary Comments" section. One of my reviewers gave me VG/VG, but in his "Summary Comments" section, he says that I failed to explain exactly how I am unique and interesting given my unusual background, which I guess means that he did not recommend me for an award.

It's 2:00 and Fastlane is still down.. so anticlimatic

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