2014-2015 Loyola University Chicago (Stritch) Application Thread

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1. Describe a valuable experience in your personal development. This might be a decision you have made, an achievement of which you are particularly proud of, or a person who has influenced your life.
2. Provide in detail an experience of working with individual(s) from diverse backgrounds. What was the experience? How did it have an impact on you?
3. Describe how you have dealt with a personal or academic challenge. Focus on what you learned about yourself and how it will help you during the challenges you might face in medical school.
4. Your patient has a rare disease and would be a great candidate for an experimental new treatment. You are the principal investigator for the research project and you and your Chair would like to pursue this experiment with the patient. The parents of your patient are adamant against the treatment. How would you handle this situation?
5. If you will not be enrolled as a full-time student during the current academic year, please explain what you will be doing prior to your planned matriculation into medical school? If you are a re-applicant, please tell us how your application has improved since the last time you applied.
6. Please use this space to bring the information in your AMCAS application up-to-date. Please indicate additional grades earned, alterations in your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of activities and anything else you feel we should know.

Good luck to everyone applying! :luck:
 
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Applying OOS! If anyone could post prompts for secondaries that'd be appreciated
no one has received a secondary yet, but these are the prompts from last year:

1. Describe a valuable experience in your personal development. This might be a decision you have made, an achievement of which you are particularly proud of, or a person who has influenced your life.
2. Provide in detail an experience of working with individual(s) from diverse backgrounds. What was the experience? How did it have an impact on you?
3. Describe how you have dealt with a personal or academic challenge. Focus on what you learned about yourself and how it will help you during the challenges you might face in medical school.
4. Your patient has a rare disease and would be a great candidate for an experimental new treatment. You are the principal investigator for the research project and you and your Chair would like to pursue this experiment with the patient. The parents of your patient are adamant against the treatment. How would you handle this situation?
5. If you will not be enrolled as a full-time student during the current academic year, please explain what you will be doing prior to your planned matriculation into medical school? If you are a re-applicant, please tell us how your application has improved since the last time you applied.
6. Please use this space to bring the information in your AMCAS application up-to-date. Please indicate additional grades earned, alterations in your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of activities and anything else you feel we should know.
 
no one has received a secondary yet, but these are the prompts from last year:

1. Describe a valuable experience in your personal development. This might be a decision you have made, an achievement of which you are particularly proud of, or a person who has influenced your life.
2. Provide in detail an experience of working with individual(s) from diverse backgrounds. What was the experience? How did it have an impact on you?
3. Describe how you have dealt with a personal or academic challenge. Focus on what you learned about yourself and how it will help you during the challenges you might face in medical school.
4. Your patient has a rare disease and would be a great candidate for an experimental new treatment. You are the principal investigator for the research project and you and your Chair would like to pursue this experiment with the patient. The parents of your patient are adamant against the treatment. How would you handle this situation?
5. If you will not be enrolled as a full-time student during the current academic year, please explain what you will be doing prior to your planned matriculation into medical school? If you are a re-applicant, please tell us how your application has improved since the last time you applied.
6. Please use this space to bring the information in your AMCAS application up-to-date. Please indicate additional grades earned, alterations in your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of activities and anything else you feel we should know.
Thank you! Does this school typically alter their prompts?
 
Is it harder to get accepted as OOS at this school? (I.e. Do they have in-state preference??)
 
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This is all true, but the MSAR says 13% of Illinois applicants interview, while it's it's less than 5% for OOS. Just something to keep in mind.
Hopefully it is because there is a much larger number of OOS applicants?(!) 🙁 ...
 
Hopefully it is because there is a much larger number of OOS applicants?(!) 🙁 ...

Well it's a proportion of each total so it can't be explained only by absolute number of applicants from each. I think they just see IL residents as more likely to attend. Schools like GWU and Boston also get a crazy amount of apps and they have the same slight in state bias.
 
secondary received! I was verified like 6/3.

1. Describe a valuable experience in your personal development? This might be a decision you have made, an achievement of which you are particularly proud of, or a person who has influenced your life.

2. Provide in detail an experience of working with individual(s) from diverse background(s). What was the experience? How did it have an impact on you?
 
no one has received a secondary yet, but these are the prompts from last year:

1. Describe a valuable experience in your personal development. This might be a decision you have made, an achievement of which you are particularly proud of, or a person who has influenced your life.
2. Provide in detail an experience of working with individual(s) from diverse backgrounds. What was the experience? How did it have an impact on you?
3. Describe how you have dealt with a personal or academic challenge. Focus on what you learned about yourself and how it will help you during the challenges you might face in medical school.
4. Your patient has a rare disease and would be a great candidate for an experimental new treatment. You are the principal investigator for the research project and you and your Chair would like to pursue this experiment with the patient. The parents of your patient are adamant against the treatment. How would you handle this situation?
5. If you will not be enrolled as a full-time student during the current academic year, please explain what you will be doing prior to your planned matriculation into medical school? If you are a re-applicant, please tell us how your application has improved since the last time you applied.
6. Please use this space to bring the information in your AMCAS application up-to-date. Please indicate additional grades earned, alterations in your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of activities and anything else you feel we should know.

Really?! Oh no! Can you please share the questions?
See above, they're the same as last years.
 
You also have to pay $75 before you can even access your secondary application... -_-

But you can view it if you press "Print Application" to see the prompts and everything. Same as the above poster! Good luck y'all
 
You also have to pay $75 before you can even access your secondary application... -_-

But you can view it if you press "Print Application" to see the prompts and everything. Same as the above poster! Good luck y'all
I really don't like this. Seems like the school is only interested in $$$ when they make you pay before even showing you the prompts. I understand that most schools just want the money, that why they won't screen heavily before sending a secondary but Loyola makes this blatantly obvious. Not a good vibe to start off.
 
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Secondary received. Verified prior to 6/27

App fee is 85$...to start your secondary 🙄

The length limit is "no more than 2 paragraphs". Also a 2x2 photo.
 
secondary received! I was verified like 6/3.

1. Describe a valuable experience in your personal development? This might be a decision you have made, an achievement of which you are particularly proud of, or a person who has influenced your life.

2. Provide in detail an experience of working with individual(s) from diverse background(s). What was the experience? How did it have an impact on you?

only these two questions? not the 6 questions from last year? they cut down huh?
 
Also their website is not working at the moment, I was trying to see what their screening process looked like...does any one have an idea?
 
this secondary just puts a bad taste in my mouth.... putting on the back burner for now
 
Did you see the bit about the letters of recommendation needing the full name and AMCAS ID? Mine definitely don't have the AMCAS ID.. do you think I should do anything or just submit
 
Is anyone having trouble uploading a photograph? I've tried to upload one several times but when I click on the image in the 'choose file' window, all the images are faded/I can't select them. I've already tried to make it smaller (under 2MB like it says), but still no dice.

Any advice?
 
Is anyone having trouble uploading a photograph? I've tried to upload one several times but when I click on the image in the 'choose file' window, all the images are faded/I can't select them. I've already tried to make it smaller (under 2MB like it says), but still no dice.

Any advice?

Oppp it looks like something I did just worked lol! If anyone is using a Mac / Safari browser, just drag your picture from whatever folder it's in right into the 'choose file' button. Pretty random but it looks like it worked for me!
 
For the question asking about "if you're a reapplicant discuss what you've.." should I be mentioning I am a reapplicant if I didn't apply here the first time around?
 
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Is anyone having trouble uploading a photograph? I've tried to upload one several times but when I click on the image in the 'choose file' window, all the images are faded/I can't select them. I've already tried to make it smaller (under 2MB like it says), but still no dice.

Any advice?

Quick question about the photograph: did you just go to Walgreens/something, take a passport picture, and get the picture file on a disc or something? How do people usually do this?
 
Quick question about the photograph: did you just go to Walgreens/something, take a passport picture, and get the picture file on a disc or something? How do people usually do this?

I had my picture taken against a white wall at my house with a camera in a suit and tie... uploaded it to my computer...
 
Did you see the bit about the letters of recommendation needing the full name and AMCAS ID? Mine definitely don't have the AMCAS ID.. do you think I should do anything or just submit

all of your letters should have amcas ID on them just to get to amcas...