2016-2017 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Application Thread

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Please tell us about a passion (professional or personal) you have had thus far in your life. (250 words)
Please tell us about a situation in which working with others has been challenging. (200 words)
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Thinking about applying here, does anyone know what the FlexMed situation is and how many students from the class will be from the program? Does it make OOS chances slimmer?
 
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mus69247 said:
Thinking about applying here, does anyone know what the FlexMed situation is and how many students from the class will be from the program? Does it make OOS chances slimmer?
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http://blog.mountsinai.org/blog/tag/flexmed/

The article is from 2013, so I think about half of the incoming class is FlexMed. It probably makes OOS chances slimmer but it'll make everyone's chances a bit slimmer.
 
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If we do not have a committee letter, do we only submit 2 letters? Their website states they want 1 science and 1 nonscience professor. Does anyone know if we can submit more (is there a maximum)??
 
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If we do not have a committee letter, do we only submit 2 letters? Their website states they want 1 science and 1 nonscience professor. Does anyone know if we can submit more (is there a maximum)??
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I don't believe they had a hard maximum when I applied, but you probably shouldn't submit more than 4-5.
 
Secondary Received 7/5 1:48 PM EST. Questions are the same as last year!
 
Received. Anyone having trouble with the photo upload? I chose a file, it says complete, but the picture still says "no photo".


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1. Please tell us about a passion (professional or personal) you have had thus far in your life. (250 words)
2. Please tell us about a situation in which working with others has been challenging. (200 words)

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tjo422 said:
Received. Anyone having trouble with the photo upload? I chose a file, it says complete, but the picture still says "no photo".


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I'm having the same problem. There's no upload button and it won't let me save. It says "This page is complete" though.

Update: I went ahead and submitted since it gave me the option to delete and gave me notice that the section was complete. I think it should be fine.
 
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I'm having the same problem. There's no upload button and it won't let me save. It says "This page is complete" though.

Update: I went ahead and submitted since it gave me the option to delete and gave me notice that the section was complete. I think it should be fine.
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Did the same thing :)


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Secondary submitted! This is easily my top choice, so fingers crossed!

PS, @WedgeDawg -

Please tell us about a passion (professional or personal) you have had thus far in your life. (250 words)
Please tell us about a situation in which working with others has been challenging. (200 words)
 
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What does a professional passion even entail? Are they looking for EC type responses (Ex. tutoring, EMT...etc)?
 
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What does a professional passion even entail? Are they looking for EC type responses (Ex. tutoring, EMT...etc)?
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No one said it had to be professional. You can write about anything you care deeply about.
 
It says "professional or personal."
 
Should it be related to medicine in some way? I feel like my personal passions are not worth writing about. The only things I can think of are what I have already written in my activities.
 
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@pillowsnice I wrote about running and now I'm starting at Sinai in a month! Write about anything that you're passionate about (within reason)
 
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BourgeoisGanglia said:
I'm having the same problem. There's no upload button and it won't let me save. It says "This page is complete" though.

Update: I went ahead and submitted since it gave me the option to delete and gave me notice that the section was complete. I think it should be fine.
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Same, I submitted anyways. Watch they reject me just because of a blank photo :(
 
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I'm having issues with the photo too. Hopefully they'll get that resolved soon.

Personal passion? Video poker. That probably won't fly though!
 
submitted. really like this school
 
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@Apollo8 Totally fine! I did exactly that. It's probably best to touch on a different side of that topic or go into greater detail about it, though; don't just copy-paste your blurb from the activities section.
 
Working on the secondary here now! I am excited about this school. Don't have any research experience so its' a big reach, but hoping they like my unique, non-trad story.
 
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what the consensus on writing about something you've already touched on in your AMCAS?..... any passions (professional or personal) I have already hit in some manner on the primary.

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If it's really a "passion" its hard to see how it wouldn't be in your primary. Just make sure to take a very different angle on it. Personally, I was able to link a bunch of the stuff in my primary with a general theme that I am passionate about, so it was easy enough to write this one.
 
Does Mt. Sinai accept updates after the secondary is submitted but before interviews begin?
 
I got my secondary 7/5 and submitted 7/21...I hope that long turnaround doesn't get in my way. Would love to go here!
 
Is anybody else here non-trad? (looking at you @ChrisMack390 ... lol)

How did you answer the post-bacc coursework question? It asks how many post-bacc courses you took. Did you literally just put a number? Or list out all th post-bacc courses you took with names, etc.?
 
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Is anybody else here non-trad? (looking at you @ChrisMack390 ... lol)

How did you answer the post-bacc coursework question? It asks how many post-bacc courses you took. Did you literally just put a number? Or list out all th post-bacc courses you took with names, etc.?
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Non trad here! But I haven't taken a post bac so I didn't have to answer that question. Sorry :/


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Is anybody else here non-trad? (looking at you @ChrisMack390 ... lol)

How did you answer the post-bacc coursework question? It asks how many post-bacc courses you took. Did you literally just put a number? Or list out all th post-bacc courses you took with names, etc.?
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Um. Are you sure this is for Sinai? I don't remember being asked that. In any case, I did a master's degree, not a postbacc, so the reason may be because I just said no.
 
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Um. Are you sure this is for Sinai? I don't remember being asked that. In any case, I did a master's degree, not a postbacc, so the reason may be because I just said no.
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Got it! Thanks. They asked if you completed post-bacc courses and then another box popped up asking for how many. There was no character limit..I was probably being overly thorough but gave a list of course names. Rather be safe than sorry and given no character limit it seemed they could be expecting a large response!

Secondary submitted, finally!
 
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Got it! Thanks. They asked if you completed post-bacc courses and then another box popped up asking for how many. There was no character limit..I was probably being overly thorough but gave a list of course names. Rather be safe than sorry and given no character limit it seemed they could be expecting a large response!

Secondary submitted, finally!
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Good luck!
 
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Got it! Thanks. They asked if you completed post-bacc courses and then another box popped up asking for how many. There was no character limit..I was probably being overly thorough but gave a list of course names. Rather be safe than sorry and given no character limit it seemed they could be expecting a large response!

Secondary submitted, finally!
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That's exactly what I did, I think it's fine :)
 
Does anyone know when they start sending out II's?
 
II as well :) complete 7/6
 
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Congrats guys! Hope I get one - this is a dreeeeam school for me.
 
First II feels sooo good! LizzyM ~75
Complete 7/8

I look forward to meeting you all!
 
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INTERVIEW INVITE, MY NUMERO UNO:clap: (sorry Dartmouth :p)

NYC is easily my #1 location to live and grow, I LOVE Manhattan. Mt. Sinai I love you

I'm crying. Since I decided on this path, Sinai has been my top choice so I can go there for med school and ideally never leave, doing residency and working there. Now I'm sooooo close
 
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First II as well! I was getting pretty paranoid haha...
 
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Yorick said:
INTERVIEW INVITE, MY NUMERO UNO:clap: (sorry Dartmouth :p)

NYC is easily my #1 location to live and grow, I LOVE Manhattan. Mt. Sinai I love you

I'm crying. Since I decided on this path, Sinai has been my top choice so I can go there for med school and ideally never leave, doing residency and working there. Now I'm sooooo close
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Congrats!! Would you guys mind sharing dates of completion @Yorick @neeranjun.rishi
 
Guys, could someone pm me the link to the secondary? I kinda lost it...
 
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