And here are a few more:
Johns Hopkins
1. Describe briefly how you selected your undergraduate school and major area of study. This space is limited to 900 characters.
2. If you have already received your bachelor's degree, please describe what you have been doing since graduation, and your plans for the upcoming year. This space is limited to 700 characters.
3. If you interrupted your college education for a semester or longer, please describe what you did during that time. This space is limited to 700 characters.
4. List any academic honors or awards you have received since entering college. This space is limited to 600 characters.
5. Briefly describe your most rewarding experience or some achievement of which you are particularly proud. This space is limited to 900 characters.
6. Are there any areas of medicine that are of particular interest to you? If so, please comment. This space is limited to 1100 characters.
Medical College of Ohio
1. Briefly discuss any extenuating circumstances which you feel are pertinent to your application (poor grades, course withdrawals, etc).
2. The Medical College of Ohio is committed to excellence in education which prepares graduates to deliver quality health care. Developing cultural competence is an important goal in our curriculum. Cultural competence is defined as an awareness, understanding and ability to use specific methods to deal effectively with cultural issues and its role in health and health care. Please discuss a life experience in which you feel you demonstrated cultural competence.
Mount Sinai
1. What makes you special, someone who will add to the Mount Sinai community? (suggested 250 words or less)
2. Indicate the reasons for your specific interest in Mount Sinai. (suggested 200 words or less)
3. Describe your past and current research activities indicating the nature of the work, where it was done, the time period involved, and the research mentor. If you have published any abstracts or papers, please provide the citations. Describe your current expectation with respect to your career in biomedicine and how the MSTP training fits into those goals.
New York University
1. If there is any information you wish to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee regarding a physical or emotional problem that you feel may have affected your scholastic performance, please indicate below. (You may enter up to 1500 characters.)
Ohio State University
1. Please describe your interest in attending The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and the unique qualities that you would bring to the entering class. (2750 characters or less)
2. Please describe your motivation for a career in medicine and experiences you have had that helped confirm this desire. (2750 characters or less)
Pittsburgh, University of
1. Describe a personal experience which resulted in a substantial moral or ethical dilemma. What was the outcome? We are reluctant to accept assertions that you have never encountered such a situation. Please do not address cheating in an academic setting. (Limit your response to 250 words or less.)
2. The recruitment of a diverse student body is a major goal of the University of Pittsburgh's Medical School Admissions Committee. Please tell us whether facets of your life and education to date would contribute to the achievement of this goal. Such facets might include your early education, socioeconomic status, culture, race/ethnicity and work experience. (Limit your response to 250 words or less.)
Pritzker, University of Chicago
1. Relate an experience in which you felt you truly helped someone. (1300 Characters)
2. If you have been involved in research, what did you learn that makes this type of experience worth recommending to others? (1300 Characters)
3. Tell us about a difficult or challenging situation that you have encountered and how you dealt with it. In your response, identify both the coping skills that you called upon to resolve the dilemma, and the support person(s) from whom you sought advice. (2400 Characters)
4. Most individuals live by a system of values and beliefs which serve as a guiding principle for daily living. What influences have been particularly important to you? Please describe both values and influences. (2400 Characters)
Stanford
1. The Committee on Admissions regards the diversity of an entering class as an important factor in serving the educational mission of the school. The Committee on Admissions strongly encourages you to share unique, personally important, and/or challenging factors in your background, such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, culture, race, ethnicity, or life or work experiences. Please discuss how such factors have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine. (Please limit your answer to 2,000 characters including spaces.)
2. What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals.
a. Fulltime private practice, with the option to engage in teaching and collaborations in clinical research projects with an academic institution and other public service activities
b. Fulltime employee of a government or non-governmental organization engaged in Health Policy planning such as the World Health Organization, Office of the Surgeon General or the Food and Drug Administration
c. Fulltime faculty member of a Medical School or Research Institute engaged in research activities and teaching
d. Fulltime Public Health Officer for county, state or federal government
e. Fulltime Hospital or Insurance Company administrator (Chief Medical Officer of Blue Cross of California)
3. Why do you feel you are particularly suited for this career? What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career? (Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters including spaces.)
4. In 2003, the Stanford School of Medicine implemented a new curriculum to better integrate the scientific basis of medicine with clinical practice. A key element of this curriculum is a requirement for in-depth didactic and scholarly activities through participation in a scholarly concentration of your choice. Details of the curriculum and scholarly concentrations are available at
http://med.stanford.edu/md/curriculum, which we ask you to review prior to answering the last essay questions. How will the Stanford curriculum, and specifically the requirement for a scholarly concentration, help your personal career goals? (Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters including spaces.)
Tufts
1. Is there an personal reason or circumstance/history that motivates you to attend TUSM in particular or to study in Boston, as opposed to attending another school or studying in another city? (Directions state that a simple no is typical and acceptable.)
Vanderbilt University
1. Autobiography: Write a brief autobiography. As completely and precisely as possible, give a picture of yourself, your family, and events you consider important to you. In doing so, identify the values that are of greatest importance to you. If you have completed your undergraduate education, please comment on what you have done or have been doing since graduation. (2000 word limit)
2. Skills: In addition to preparing you to be an excellent physician, Vanderbilt is committed to educating leaders and scholars in clinical practice, basic research, clinical research, education, and health policy. Describe any skills or experiences that have prepared you for one or more of these broader missions. (500 word limit)
3. Research: Discuss the scholarly work or research you have done of which you are most proud. What did you find? What might be the consequences of your work (500 word limit)
University of Virginia
1. Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? (Limit your response to 300 words.)
2. Briefly describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (Limit your response to 300 words.)
3. What do you think will be your greatest personal challenge as a physician, and how will you address this? (Limit your response to 300 words.)
Wash U.
1. Have you had any personal experience or relationship with Washington University? If yes, please explain (maximum 1800 characters).
2. If you have already completed your education or if you do not plan to be a full-time student during the current academic year, describe in chronological sequence your previous and/or planned activities since graduation. (max 1800 characters)
3. (optional) Do you have unique experiences or obstacles that you have overcome that were not covered in your application about which you would like to inform our Admissions Committee? (maximum 3000 characters)
Weill, Cornell
1. If you are not attending college during the upcoming academic year, what are your plans? Please limit your statement to less than 200 words.
2. Please write a brief statement giving your reasons for applying to Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Please limit your statement to less than 200 words.
Yale
1. Please use this space to write an essay in which you discuss your interest in the Yale University School of Medicine. Please limit your response to 500 words.
