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For the question about listing/briefly describing clinical experiences, should we stick to undergrad only or can we also go back to high school if there's room?
 
futuredoctor20202002 said:
Hey guys! I am an incoming M1 in the MD/MPH program and would love to answer any questions if you have any. I was totally looking forward to meeting some of you through hosting, so I'm pretty bummed about virtual interviews, but hoping to meet you guys through this! Feel free to message me about anything!

(also I never took biochem lab either lol)
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Any insight from experience on how to best go about the secondary question: "Briefly describe the one clinical experience you have had that has most significantly influenced your decision to study medicine. Do not replicate your AMCAS personal statement."?
Not sure if MD/PHD applicants got this question too. Wondering if they mean "replicate" as in copy and paste or as in don't use any content that was in your PS?
 
ss901 said:
Any insight from experience on how to best go about the secondary question: "Briefly describe the one clinical experience you have had that has most significantly influenced your decision to study medicine. Do not replicate your AMCAS personal statement."?
Not sure if MD/PHD applicants got this question too. Wondering if they mean "replicate" as in copy and paste or as in don't use any content that was in your PS?
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I think they mean don't copy/paste or say the same thing that you wrote about in the primary. If they want our most important clinical experiences that ISN'T on the primary, then I've got nothing lol. So I'm writing about one of my activities from AMCAS but just using a different story and a different take-home message
 
ss901 said:
Any insight from experience on how to best go about the secondary question: "Briefly describe the one clinical experience you have had that has most significantly influenced your decision to study medicine. Do not replicate your AMCAS personal statement."?
Not sure if MD/PHD applicants got this question too. Wondering if they mean "replicate" as in copy and paste or as in don't use any content that was in your PS?
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I talked about something that was mentioned in my PS. I described aspects of it that weren't said in my personal statement. I got in and will be starting next month.
 
What are the acceptable/typical nicknames for the school in secondaries? University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is a lot of words!
 
Are secondaries out yet? Do they send secondaries to all applicants?
 
Do you think it's worth mentioning a sport I played for 10 years (not in college) for the sports essay?
 
Pokemon95 said:
Do you think it's worth mentioning a sport I played for 10 years (not in college) for the sports essay?
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yeah i think so! I think they are looking for "well-rounded" people that do things other than just school. I think its healthy to have other things you do in life like participate in recreational sports
 
PlzLetMeIntoMedSchool363 said:
Im wondering if any accepted students remember how much of the 500 word limits did you guys utilize?
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tinfoilforests said:
After looking up my secondary responses, I found that I averaged 200 words for the questions. The smallest was just shy of 150 and the longest was just over 300.

Important to add that I will be matriculating this summer.
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I used 150-250 words on all of the essays except for the one about leadership skills. That one was 425 words.

The optional essays were shorter. The smallest was 7 words for one of the optional essays.

I'll be joining @tinfoilforests
 
Hey everyone, I am currently prewriting secondaries and I came across the prompt "List your employment in chronological order". On my primary I left out some jobs (Not sure why I had them on my previous application that I didn't submit last year), however they were not anything important (checkers team member and deli worker at sams club) should I put these in my secondary or just leave them out and nit stress this mistake?
 
Calizboosted76 said:
Hey everyone, I am currently prewriting secondaries and I came across the prompt "List your employment in chronological order". On my primary I left out some jobs (Not sure why I had them on my previous application that I didn't submit last year), however they were not anything important (checkers team member and deli worker at sams club) should I put these in my secondary or just leave them out and nit stress this mistake?
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Any job is an important EC; list them
 
Calizboosted76 said:
Hey everyone, I am currently prewriting secondaries and I came across the prompt "List your employment in chronological order". On my primary I left out some jobs (Not sure why I had them on my previous application that I didn't submit last year), however they were not anything important (checkers team member and deli worker at sams club) should I put these in my secondary or just leave them out and nit stress this mistake?
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List them, also it doesn't matter that they weren't on your primary.
 
is anyone else having trouble pre-writing/writing the "why us" secondary for this school? what are some things that stand out to y'all?
 
Will you guys be mentioning your most travel experience even if you didn’t do any medical related traveling? I was just thinking about mentioning a trip I took to Italy
 
Pokemon95 said:
Will you guys be mentioning your most travel experience even if you didn’t do any medical related traveling? I was just thinking about mentioning a trip I took to Italy
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Not every answer needs to be directly related to medicine!! Show them that you're an interesting and well rounded person, who engages with other cultures. The question isn't asking "have you gone on any medical mission trips."

On this note: this is just my personal opinion (no idea what adcom thoughts are), but be careful especially with this travel question of saying something along the lines of "I traveled to this third world country and saw all these people who needed medical care, now I want to do medicine." You don't need to travel very far to find underserved communities - there's so much need just in Miami, or your own hometown. Unless you actively provided meaningful support to the community you visited, it can come across voyeuristic. If I were reading these, I'd be more interested in learning about how you engaged with people from other cultures as equals, rather than some savior role.
 
Pokemon95 said:
Will you guys be mentioning your most travel experience even if you didn’t do any medical related traveling? I was just thinking about mentioning a trip I took to Italy
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The question asks about travel, not medical travel. Out of all the applicants/Med students I’ve known 0 have done medical travel lol.
Also Italy is balling definitely talk about that
 
Sredman said:
Well you have to think about why you are applying. Why did you send your primary to them? Is it the city? Research? Stuff like that
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could just be a florida resident.

SouthernGeorgiaPines said:
is anyone else having trouble pre-writing/writing the "why us" secondary for this school? what are some things that stand out to y'all?
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early clinical exposure, community engagement, diverse patient population, wolfson docs program, scholarly concentration. honestly nothing stood out as super unique but i feel like why essays should be more about why you're a good fit and less time spending the springtime of youth worrying about the perfect, exact, unique situation you would be in at the school that could not achieved anywhere else.
 
The first prompt is really annoying me. My most meaningful experience for pursuing medicine is literally the lengthy, introductory paragraph of my PS. There are no other angles for me to reflect on it from.

Here’s to hoping they remove that prompt LOL.
 
14_karat said:
The first prompt is really annoying me. My most meaningful experience for pursuing medicine is literally the lengthy, introductory paragraph of my PS. There are no other angles for me to reflect on it from.

Here’s to hoping they remove that prompt LOL.
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That one, cincinnati, and the autobiography prompts at UCSD + vandy all feel a little weird and just ways to eat up the springtime of youth.
 
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I would guess they won’t send them till August 3rd, but that’s just pure speculation at this point lol
 
What was up with the “a decision to send you a secondary will be made shortly”? I thought they don’t screen?
 
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