Secondary received -- this is a dream school for me! For clarification, university track = Case Western Reserve 4-year MD, college track = Cleveland Clinic 5-year MD + research qualification. @Wedgdawg Prompts are:
(University Track)
1. The admissions committee is interested in gaining more insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person. Examples may include a moral or ethical dilemma, a situation of personal adversity, or a hurdle in your life that you worked hard to overcome. Please include how you got through the experience and what you may have learned about yourself as a result. (3500 char)
2. One of the four pillars of the Western Reserve Curriculum is Research and Scholarship. Although research is not a pre-requisite requirement for the University Program, if you have participated in research or in another scholarly project please tell us about it. Describe your experience, including the question you pursued and how you approached it, your results and interpretation of the results, and most importantly, any thoughts about what this experience meant to you. Remember that the definition of research is broadly-based and can include such projects as a senior capstone or a thesis, and can include both medically and non-medically-related investigations. OPTIONAL 3500 char
3. If you were working on a small group project and you thought that another student wasn't carrying his/her load, how would you handle it? (300 - 1000 char)
4. Is there any further information that you wish to share with the Admissions Committee? This optional response will only be considered by the University Program. *OPTIONAL*
(College Track) Previous essays plus:
5. Each year our students target for themselves areas of improvement. Other than the acquisition of new knowledge, what personal area do you think you have that could use strengthening? Design a plan as to how you could improve it. (500-1000 char)
6. Tell us about a time when you received unexpected criticism or negative feedback. How did you react? What did you do? (500-1000 char)
7. How do you see your career ten years from now? (500-1000 char)
8. When were you challenged to teach, coach, or mentor others to learn a new skill or improve an old one? Please describe how it went and what you learned from the experience. (500-1000 char)
9. If you took a gap year, please describe how you spent that time. Please limit your response to 500 characters, and leave blank lines between paragraphs (500 char)
As far as I know the Case (University) and Cleveland Clinic (College) admissions boards are separate entities. It seems like essays #1-3 will be seen by both, #4 by Case only, and #5-9 by Cleveland Clinic only. Anyone know whether that's true?
Some users posted rejections from CCLM and interviews at case western, so seems like we survived, at least one round of rejections
