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2012-2013 Loyola University (Stritch) Application Thread
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No, the patient with rare disease you have a research project that studies a novel experimental treatment but pt's parents are adamantly against the treatment one.
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I don't know about you guys, but I have applied to 15 schools and this is my longest secondary. I'm about half-way through right now...
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I'm still working on some secondaries I got last week 🙁 I got a little behind haha. My goal is to have them all in by August 1st.
Yes this is the beast mode secondary
oh yeah well the 25 lines is a max, not a goal. i'm sure if you've adequately covered the topic in whatever amount of lines you have, it's fine.
Yeah, I took my PI's advice and answered it as concisely as possible. One of the few times I didn't listen to SDN 🙄
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Welcome!
For the ethics question do we know if this patient is a minor or what he or she wants? I'm just confused why the patient's wishes are irrelevant. I'm not asking for anyone's essay idea, I'm just confused.
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Must be a minor if the parent's wishes are relevant.
😕 If he's not a minor then his parents don't matter.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
secondary website.
thank you
It's best not to assume anything. What if the disease resulted in the patient being comatose, and the parents had to make a decision? Keep it broad but concise, as weird as that sounds. I think they do this to discern how you think about the question, or to possibly see how much clinical knowledge you might possess at this stage. If the patient was a minor then they probably would've said that based on my previous statement. I'm happy I took a medical ethics class.
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I typed my in Word first with Times New Roman 12 point and ended up with the exact same line breaks when pasting into the website, if that helps.
Still no secondary. :-/
I haven't gotten the email with the secondary yet either. I went to the site posted on this page and entered in my aamc id and it let me log in. My status says :We have received your application from AMCAS and we are currently screening your academic credentials. We will be sending additional information to you within the next few weeks.
Do you think it would be a bad idea to just do the secondary now or should I wait til I get the official invite to do the secondary via email?
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Never submit one before you are officially invited to - in some cases they may throw out your application.
You're still ahead of the game.. many people are still waiting for their primaries to be processed so I'm sure you will be fine.
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Unfortunately you have to pay before you get access to the secondary. I don't want them to see that I paid before I even got officially invited, so it looks like I'm waiting.
edit: They aren't in the OP, but can anyone that has access post the secondary prompts?
edit: They aren't in the OP, but can anyone that has access post the secondary prompts?
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See above... they've been posted already.
+1. It's not worth the risk.
almost ready to submit this secondary off... which turned out to be a life novel.
Question for anyone who is at this stage, when you click 'print app' to preview it, all of my essays turn into blobs, even though I put two lines in between each paragraph like they asked - is anyone having the same issue? it's rather unsightly to just have blobs like that... or maybe that's just how it looks on the print preview, not sure...?
Question for anyone who is at this stage, when you click 'print app' to preview it, all of my essays turn into blobs, even though I put two lines in between each paragraph like they asked - is anyone having the same issue? it's rather unsightly to just have blobs like that... or maybe that's just how it looks on the print preview, not sure...?
I found that by inserting the characters below in place of just pressing "return" will give me the desired newline character:
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I am placed two of these between paragraphs and it gave me a double space.
hahaha - sorry about the grammar. I had posted this on page 2 and just now failed to edit it successfully after copying and pasting.
ohhh i see what you were saying. I did see that post earlier but didn't understand.. ok I will try that, but now I am also noticing that these characters: " and '
are not showing up either... and I need them to quote a couple things...
Another blobber here.
hmmm.... I would try googling it. I think the language is HTML. My guess would be to try sequential double/single quotes (example: I said ""hello"" to Mr. Bean instead of I said "hello" to Mr. Bean).
If that doesn't work, you could try this:
double quote: "
single quote:
I don't know for sure that either of those will work though but I googled newline character and guessed what language they used to write the page to figure out what might give me a newline character. I think something similar should work to figure out quotes and apostrophes. Hope that helps!
EDIT: SDN uses HTML - Go here for codes: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
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Wow, thanks for being so helpful!!!!! Do you think it's weird to submit the secondary back within a day? Or do schools generally know that people pre-write essays?
I pre-wrote everything I could and have been returning them as quickly as possible because I think it might be more helpful to get it in quickly. I also think that if it's well written and they don't think you pre-wrote, it could impress them! Or that's what I'm hoping...
Good luck!
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i didnt' write anything there.
Same.
To be fair, that sort of bit us in the ass with LECOM-E.
But overall I agree -- it's still an unnecessary risk.
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