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[Mr.Smile12]

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1) I don't know the rules on taking a medical redshirt or deferral. Being injured stinks, but I don't know if I would necessarily call it a "failure." You could go with a simpler route about not winning a championship when you competed, even if you tried changing up some habits or routines.

2) I would not call your advocacy strategy a failure. Sounds like the President and the C-suite admins already made up their minds. It's great they listened to you, but being an advocate or administrator is more complex than your description of it being a failure that fits the prompt, IMO.

 

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I'd change #2 slightly and you'd have a good answer. The failure is not successfully creating institutional change. I'd change it so that the failure is that of looking at the issue from different angles. Don't be trapped by your own convictions.

So here, you expand on the fact that you learned that as activist and a future doctor, you must look at problems from multiple angles. And you put that learning into action with the community seminars.

 

[LizzyM]

Another way to look at questions like this is that you can expect failure and disappointment at some point in med school (not necessarily failing an exam but failing to get a High Pass in a rotation that you felt you did well in, or not being selected for a specific training program) and what the adcom would like to know is how you have dealt with such disappointments and failures in the past. How do you change the things you can, accept the situations you can't change, and how do you tell one from the other?

In other words, the adcom may be less interested in what the failure WAS and more interested in what you did about it.