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Especially on shorter secondaries. Do you guys like them? Or do you often end up rolling your eyes at them? I sort of just want to get straight to the point with my secondaries, but I get that may not be super engaging or enjoyable to read.

I'm not sure if I've articulated my challenge sufficiently, and would love to get some second opinions!

So I'm trying to figure out what to write for my challenge essay. From what I've read on SDN, I don't need to go to Africa and be on the verge of death by lion mauling to overcome a challenge. Great! I was thinking of writing about a time where my friend got a subungual hematoma on his big toe...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone would be able to proofread my essay for this year's cycle? The prompt is: "What is professionalism in the context of being a student in a doctor of physical therapy program?" Thanks!!

Hi, I am just confused of the essay questions that is provided under "Questions" on the AACOMAS application website. Are these the secondaries or are these additional essay questions to do for the primary application?

Have any of you filled out the disadvantaged status essay, and if so how long did you make yours? I'm a minority and a first generation college student, but I'm not entirely sure what to include. The character count is 4500, which is as much as the personal statement. Thanks!

I am a High School student in the United States wishing to apply for medical school in Ireland through Atlantic Bridge. As I was looking around at the requirements to apply, I noticed something called a "Personal Statement" which you needed to send in with your application and letters of...

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TMDSAS's 3rd optional prompt" "Briefly discuss any unique circumstances or life experiences that are relevant to your application which have not previously been presented." I have a few topics in mind and was wondering if they are worth talking about 1. When I lived in China I literally...

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Ok so there are a lot of things I feel like I want to mention in my personal statement about my journey in wanting to pursue medicine, but I don't know how much of them would be considered "red flags." all of these potential red flags kind of build on one another, so just read through everything...

The person in this situation had a 2.3 overall GPA at their first University. They transferred and finished with a 3.6 GPA at their new University as a Psych major (undergrad). There is a lot of power to their story. At their previous school this person struggled with opiate addiction. This...

I'm wondering how my writing for the GRE is. I've been practicing, reading sample essays, and trying to work at it. But I'm not sure how it's going... Here is an ISSUE prompt: “People who work in the arts and humanities should earn less than those who work in the sciences and economics because...

I posted a couple days ago (maybe even a week ago) with Google Doc links to my three personal statements. (Link here: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/personal-statement-help.1236825/#post-18489665 to read what people said before I edited them). Anyway, I've revised them and would like...

I am stuck on one of the topics for my essays. I have to write about an experience that advances the goals of diversity in medicine and or reduces health care disparities. Any help? What would you write?

Hey everyone So, I'm currently an undergraduate in a Communicative Disorders and Sciences program applying for grad school. I have a problem and that is that I don't have a lot of experience outside of school that are SLP-related. I originally was going towards a degree in Accounting, but...

Hello everyone If anyone could help me proofread/give advice on my personal essay I would be very appreciative. I would like some input from someone else's eyes Thank you in advance!

Please be as critical as you can. The prompt did not give a word limit either.. This is my first draft and I have not gone through it for grammatical errors yet. But any criticism on organization, thought process, etc. is greatly appreciated. This essay is for LMU-DCOM: Prompt: Medical school...

Most of you are now — or will soon be — editing your critical application essays and personal statements. When Accepted consultants review and edit your essays, they go through a process I call the editing funnel. When you edit your own essays, you should follow a similar process. Here’s how it...

The eoSurgical 2017 Student Essay Competition is now open medical students worldwide. Title: 'How will the 'internet of things' impact delivery and training of surgery? Are we heading for a global surgical reticulum?’ Prizes: 1st: eoStudent Sim take-home laparoscopic surgical simulator (RRP...

Hello everyone! So I started writing my essay and I talked about a health problem that I have. This health problem truly was one of the important reasons I wanted to get into health sector. Now that I am half way through I started being concerned if this is a bad thing to write in my essay...

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Hi everyone, I just have a quick question about the essay component of the application process. For the school specific questions, if two different schools both have a similar question that they're asking, are we allowed to use the same essay to answer both? I've seen some questions in which...

Hey everyone, first let me say that I've found this site very useful from afar (thanks, google), but i've only recently decided to join myself. If this goes someplace else, i'm sorry! I'm new here. Anyways, I wanted to get some input about how medical schools value adversity and...

I'm getting ready to submit my PTCAS application and the last thing I'm working on is the main PTCAS essay as well as the supplemental essay for one of my schools. I'm spending a lot of time on those essays making sure they are a good reflection of my writing skills, my personality and my desire...

Hi there, I'm working on my essays for my optometry school application right now and one in particular is kinda stumping me. Here it is: "Tell us about an experience that led to self-evaluation and resulted in personal change." So I think it's asking something like "Tell me about something...

Would schools look down on using abbreviations of their names (MSU for Michigan State University, Toledo for University of Toledo, MCW for Medical College of Wisconsin, etc.) instead of their full names? Looking to save character space.

So, this is my second time applying to veterinary programs, but my first time on this site. My applications are almost finished and all I have left is the Personal Essay section as well as some other essays for specific schools. This time around I would like to improve these sections, but I am...

For my diversity essay topic I'm thinking of writing about a near death experience. Last year I travelled to Panama as part of a volunteer medical team. While we were there we went swimming in a water hole in the middle of the jungle. One of my team members couldn't swim so he started to drown...

Hi SDN community, I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm sorry if this post is where it shouldn't be, but I looked everywhere for 'personal statement review' threads, but couldn't find a "main" one. Anyway, this is my personal statement. Helpful and honest criticism would be greatly...

At this point in the cycle, getting your primary app submitted and sending back secondaries is a race against the clock. During my first application cycle, I would receive a secondary invitation, work on my essay, wait a week and look at it again with a clear mind, and send it in. I sat on some...

Received a secondary app from WashU; one of the questions asked me to describe a time when I failed or was unsuccessful. My two initial ideas were either to write about the extensive difficulties I had in lab trying to get my experiment off the ground, or to write about an experience I had in...

The current draft of my PS says that I want to be a psychiatrist. It says this exactly once in the opening paragraph, and never again. This was a tactical decision because I volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline, my PS contains anecdotes which are most closely aligned with psychiatry, and I...

My personal statement includes a sentence saying that I support harm reduction for drug addiction, including needle exchanges and buprenorphine. Is this too controversial? I mean, this feels very non-controversial for a med school app. One reason I mention it is because I have been fighting...

I'm struggling with deciding on what to write about for the optional "unique circumstance/experience" essay on TMDSAS. One unique circumstance I can think of is my brother being admitted to a drug rehab center when I was a teenager. Do you guys think this would be an appropriate space to discuss...

I got positive feedback on my last personal statement, and the experience is one that I think truly played a very large role in my pursuit of medicine, beyond anything new I have done in my gap year. Instead of scrapping the whole thing and rewriting a new (potentially weaker) one, could I...

Time to brush up on your basic writing skills! Want to show the adcom that you are a master of the written word, someone who knows how to convey their thoughtful experiences and insightful ideas eloquently? Then it's time you brush up on your basic writing skills with the following 10 tips: 1...

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS APPLIED OR ARE PLANNING TO APPLY FOR SAN ANTONIO'S UIW DPT PROGRAM: I was wondering -- given the PTCAS questions given, are each of these a separate one or two page essay, or are the admissions representatives only looking for a short-answer paragraph? I would really like to...

This question has not been asked since 2010, according to my search. So I am asking again. What exactly is the Personal Statement prompt and length limit? I am afraid to ask my Premed Advisor because I am already late on submitting my first full draft. I am applying for entry in Fall of 2017.