2015-2016 Northwestern University (Feinberg) Application Thread

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How specific are you guys getting with future career plans? Do they mean specialty? Or academic/privatice practice?
 
I can't access the other essays....can anybody post them? Thanks


Nevermind. Found them
 
Don't think so. However, I do know that they wait until late Spring to officially reject people 😛
 
Question: Did anyone else try to log back in to their application after submitting the payment but the link that was included in the Northwestern email just routed you to a page that says "2015 entering class application"? I didn't get an email confirmation of my submission of my app or anything...
 
panda16 said:
Question: Did anyone else try to log back in to their application after submitting the payment but the link that was included in the Northwestern email just routed you to a page that says "2015 entering class application"? I didn't get an email confirmation of my submission of my app or anything...
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it says it takes several hours for that email, i wouldnt worry
 
For the diversity questions, would it be acceptable to check the box stating "Medically underserved background (ever enrolled in Medicaid, sought medical services at free clinics, delayed or went without medical care due to cultural, financial, or geographic barriers)" if my father's family grew up in poverty and couldn't afford medical care? Some of his family still live in these conditions, but I personally have not been medically underserved.
 
DR.MIke said:
For the diversity questions, would it be acceptable to check the box stating "Medically underserved background (ever enrolled in Medicaid, sought medical services at free clinics, delayed or went without medical care due to cultural, financial, or geographic barriers)" if my father's family grew up in poverty and couldn't afford medical care? Some of his family still live in these conditions, but I personally have not been medically underserved.
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No, I think they are referencing you, not others for the box checking. Now, you can relate your interactions with your family members, seeing their struggles, and hopefully, what you did to contribute to helping alleviate their suffering.
 
DR.MIke said:
For the diversity questions, would it be acceptable to check the box stating "Medically underserved background (ever enrolled in Medicaid, sought medical services at free clinics, delayed or went without medical care due to cultural, financial, or geographic barriers)" if my father's family grew up in poverty and couldn't afford medical care? Some of his family still live in these conditions, but I personally have not been medically underserved.
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Those questions want to know about things that you have personally experienced, so if you have not personally gone to a free clinic or had Medicaid because your own family did not have health insurance, I would leave it blank. It would be really unfortunate if they asked you in an interview about how that influenced you if it hasn't. Not saying that having that family has not influenced your experience, but you yourself were not medically underserved.
 
Do you think it would be acceptable then to explain in the text box about my family's situation and how it has affected me?
 
Anyone else getting a "500 Internal Server Error" when they click on the secondary link?
 
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DR.MIke said:
Do you think it would be acceptable then to explain in the text box about my family's situation and how it has affected me?
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If I were you, I wouldn't. I'm always very very very cautious about those types of questions because I never know what they wanted specifically and how they would interpret me putting certain information down. However, if your uncles/aunts/cousins situation was that dire and influenced majorly your desire to pursue a career in medicine, then you would have to make that abundantly clear in your answer.
 
DR.MIke said:
For the diversity questions, would it be acceptable to check the box stating "Medically underserved background (ever enrolled in Medicaid, sought medical services at free clinics, delayed or went without medical care due to cultural, financial, or geographic barriers)" if my father's family grew up in poverty and couldn't afford medical care? Some of his family still live in these conditions, but I personally have not been medically underserved.
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no..
 
wintersrain said:
Anyone else getting a "500 Internal Server Error" when they click on the secondary link?
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I have been since the 13th... tried it on Debian Chrome and Iceweasel as well was Windows XP IE.... it's a no go.
 
Anyone send an email about the server error or do we think they're working on it?
 
nealcaffrey said:
None for me yet either! Glad I'm not the only one!
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Still nothing for me as well. Also missing any kind of secondary (or automatic fee request) from Mayo Clinic. I've received all of the other automatic ones at this point! Hopefully MSTP people will hear from Northwestern soon 🙂
 
Ayyyy Diversity essays like these always put me in a bind.

I'm not an underrepresented minority and honestly there are slews of other asian males that can "add to the diversity" of Feinberg who may encompass more diverse social backgrounds than me. BUT I want to show Feinberg that I'm not "just another asian male". I have unique academic interests and ambitions.

I wanted to put this in the Diversity section - what do people think? Is it OK to put in my academic interests and experiences that make me unique and how those would add to Feinberg's class? Other schools or more vague about diversity so I can put my interests in there, but this one seems pretty tailored to only ethnic/social/sexual diversity.

Let me know :help:
 
Yangeranggg said:
Ayyyy Diversity essays like these always put me in a bind.

I'm not an underrepresented minority and honestly there are slews of other asian males that can "add to the diversity" of Feinberg who may encompass more diverse social backgrounds than me. BUT I want to show Feinberg that I'm not "just another asian male". I have unique academic interests and ambitions.

I wanted to put this in the Diversity section - what do people think? Is it OK to put in my academic interests and experiences that make me unique and how those would add to Feinberg's class? Other schools or more vague about diversity so I can put my interests in there, but this one seems pretty tailored to only ethnic/social/sexual diversity.

Let me know :help:
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I feel your situation especially in light of this prompt. I'm white, and I put a diversity essay in regard to my academic background/unique aspects of my file I wanted to bring up in the Pritzker one but NOT Fienberg because As you mentioned this was tailored to the SES and gender identity and ethnicity type diversity.
 
darkamgine said:
MSTP Seconadry! 6 Essays (different from MD, more research focused)
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I just got the MSTP secondary today.
One question though, doesn't this seem like two separate questions: "What is the most gratifying research experience you have had to date and why? What was the greatest obstacle you had to overcome in research and how did you overcome it?" These are both under essay 4 but they seem like completely different questions. I guess I will merge the ideas from the two separate essays into one but that's going to be really hard in 200 words!
 
panda16 said:
I feel your situation especially in light of this prompt. I'm white, and I put a diversity essay in regard to my academic background/unique aspects of my file I wanted to bring up in the Pritzker one but NOT Fienberg because As you mentioned this was tailored to the SES and gender identity and ethnicity type diversity.
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Ah yeah I thought so. Thanks for the response.
 
I'm wondering the same thing. As a white, straight male raised in a normal household I feel like I can't use this as a reason to add diversity. BUT, when it says how you would bring diversity to the school, it doesn't specify that it needs to be based on parts A-C. It could be an extension of your answers there. At the top it defines diversity as the totality of characteristics and experiences of students. I think it is pretty narrow minded to think of characteristics and experiences simply as race and orientation so I don't see any issue using this as a typical diversity question.
 
doc_mcd94 said:
I'm wondering the same thing. As a white, straight male raised in a normal household I feel like I can't use this as a reason to add diversity. BUT, when it says how you would bring diversity to the school, it doesn't specify that it needs to be based on parts A-C. It could be an extension of your answers there. At the top it defines diversity as the totality of characteristics and experiences of students. I think it is pretty narrow minded to think of characteristics and experiences simply as race and orientation so I don't see any issue using this as a typical diversity question.
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Yeah I was fifty-fifty on doing the same for Feinberg as the rest of them based on what was said at the top of the page (IDK if I am mixing up secondaries at this point but I thought that Feinberg's was like 'broadly defined diversity blah blah blah). So I thought that my original "diversity" prompt answer would suffice, but then the subsequent questionnaire is what really deterred me haha...I actually forgot to mark "heterosexual" on there because I thought none of them would apply to me haha
 
panda16 said:
Yeah I was fifty-fifty on doing the same for Feinberg as the rest of them based on what was said at the top of the page (IDK if I am mixing up secondaries at this point but I thought that Feinberg's was like 'broadly defined diversity blah blah blah). So I thought that my original "diversity" prompt answer would suffice, but then the subsequent questionnaire is what really deterred me haha...I actually forgot to mark "heterosexual" on there because I thought none of them would apply to me haha
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Did you mark "other" then?? hahah But yeah I am using the space to put my normal diversity essay. They seem to hint that identity is only one aspect of diversity and that there is much more.
 
doc_mcd94 said:
Did you mark "other" then?? hahah But yeah I am using the space to put my normal diversity essay. They seem to hint that identity is only one aspect of diversity and that there is much more.
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I just didn't mark Any of them hahap
 
Question on Letters of Recommendation for here.

I am technically a "non-traditional" student - graduated college in 2010 and with my Masters in 2012 and have been working for the Navy since. Since my original degree was not in the sciences, I am taking my pre-requisites at a 4-year university part-time.

Since I have the ability to receive a letter from the pre-health committee at my current school, where I am taking my pre-requisites, can I do that? Or should I submit LORs from my supervisor, grad advisor, etc.? I emailed Northwestern and they sent me back an answer that did not really answer my question.
 
I just submitted my secondary; where on the portal can I see my application status? I can't actually find the application status, even though the portal says "The current status of your application will appear on this page."
 
vilraj said:
Question on Letters of Recommendation for here.

I am technically a "non-traditional" student - graduated college in 2010 and with my Masters in 2012 and have been working for the Navy since. Since my original degree was not in the sciences, I am taking my pre-requisites at a 4-year university part-time.

Since I have the ability to receive a letter from the pre-health committee at my current school, where I am taking my pre-requisites, can I do that? Or should I submit LORs from my supervisor, grad advisor, etc.? I emailed Northwestern and they sent me back an answer that did not really answer my question.
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I spoke with Northwestern about non-trad cases as well. From my understanding you fall under non-trad so you are able to turn in individual letters from supervisors, grad advisors, etc. Schools do "prefer" committee letters, but at the end of the day, I would choose whichever would make you a stronger candidate. If you cannot have strong letters from the committee, then do individual. Maybe ask if the committee would be willing to add individual letters from supervisors (etc) to their packet. If the committee will be weaker than individual, as long as you can explain why you decided to go with individual letters I think you should be fine! It's about what will supplement a strong application....this is just MHO
 
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