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MSAR says community college courses are accepted case by case. Has anyone who has applied before been able to use them?
I'm also gonna focus on volunteer work in the essay. We'll see how it goes, I supposeI don’t feel like it’s solely about that. I picked up volunteering for Meals on Wheels in my area as soon as the pandemic started and feel like I will be using that for this essay instead.
MSAR says community college courses are accepted case by case. Has anyone who has applied been able to use them?
I don’t feel like it’s solely about that. I picked up volunteering for Meals on Wheels in my area as soon as the pandemic started and feel like I will be using that for this essay instead.
That’s awesome, and that’s a wonderful experience to write about! I feel that the way the question is posed tho, it’s sort of implying that you SHOULD have been doing something during the pandemic “to better prepare you to be a Med student and physician”... which is ridiculous because obviously not every single person has had the opportunity to do something like that the past few months.
There doesn't seem to be anywhere to upload it (but I know that happened at one other school - Einstein or Sinai I think? - and they just emailed out a link to submit the photo after you'd submitted your application). I also can't get back into the application portal after submitting so I can't check my status or anything...Where do we submit our photo? I didn't see anywhere to upload it
ok am i missing something or can anyone else not find a picture upload link? "1. Use the link in the secondary application to upload a photograph of yourself (showing from the waist or shoulders up)"
Where do we submit our photo? I didn't see anywhere to upload it
There doesn't seem to be anywhere to upload it (but I know that happened at one other school - Einstein or Sinai I think? - and they just emailed out a link to submit the photo after you'd submitted your application). I also can't get back into the application portal after submitting so I can't check my status or anything...
How are you getting into the status page? When I enter my AMCAS ID and birthday it just refreshes and doesn't take me anywhere.After you submit the secondary, on the status page, there is a section for photo upload.
How are you getting into the status page? When I enter my AMCAS ID and birthday it just refreshes and doesn't take me anywhere.
How are you getting into the status page? When I enter my AMCAS ID and birthday it just refreshes and doesn't take me anywhere.
You took one quarter or one semester? One semester is all they need.wow didnt realize this school required 2 quarter classes of biochemistry.... only have 1
is it even worth applying now?
1 quarterYou took one quarter or one semester? One semester is all they need.
I think they mean one quarter. I'm in the same boat. At my quarter-system school, they only require one quarter, and Miami is the only medical school I've seen so far that asks for more than that. Trying to decide whether it's worth submitting the application and potentially subjecting myself to summer school at the local CC before I matriculate.You took one quarter or one semester? One semester is all they need.
Cali fam and this forsaken quarter systemI think they mean one quarter. I'm in the same boat. At my quarter-system school, they only require one quarter, and Miami is the only medical school I've seen so far that asks for more than that. Trying to decide whether it's worth submitting the application and potentially subjecting myself to summer school at the local CC before I matriculate.
"What have you done to help identify, address and correct an issue of systematic discrimination?"
Anyone else kind of dumbfounded by this question? I feel like nearly all if not most applicants have not "solved" an issue of systematic discrimination.
I think they mean one quarter. I'm in the same boat. At my quarter-system school, they only require one quarter, and Miami is the only medical school I've seen so far that asks for more than that. Trying to decide whether it's worth submitting the application and potentially subjecting myself to summer school at the local CC before I matriculate.
Be honest then and say that you never took part in anything like this. But talk about the insights you may have gained from any movements addressing social issues over the years and also talk about how it would be relevant when you are in medical school / as a physician.And what if you were following guidelines quarantining and not protesting? I’m immunocompromised and don’t have social justice org experience either
i copied whatever is on my transcriptIf we're using AP credit for some of the prerequisites, what do we put in the "Grade" column?
Just curious, is there a difference between systemic discrimination and systematic discrimination? Did they use systematic for a reason?
I put AP since that's what shows up on my transcript for the gradeIf we're using AP credit for some of the prerequisites, what do we put in the "Grade" column?
I agree, I'm completely dumbfounded that they added this question. Not everyone is able to go to protests or has the time to join a social justice organization. I definitely educated myself a lot on social justice issues during quarantine (and shared infographics / donated and the like), but I feel like it's pompous to call that "correcting" systematic discrimination issues. Even a student social justice org is unlikely to "correct" issues, although they do great work.This is hands down the most illogical secondary question I have seen on any of my secondaries. How are individuals, most of whom are not even out of college yet, or held a job in the real world, supposed to go around not only identifying systemic racism, but correcting it. I don't think i'm going to be completing my secondary for Miami now. It's a question that is obviously pandering to current events in the U.S, but it isn't even well thought out.
Same exact thing for me. If anyone has a solution that has worked, please let us know!uhm hi so I got my secondary today and I can not get onto the application for the life of me....I've tried different browsers, different computers, iPad, iPhone, carrier pigeon...
I enter my AMCAS ID and birthdate and every single time when I click enter the page refreshes and clears my birthdate ... I've already emailed them but no answer
glad I'm not alone!!Same exact thing for me. If anyone has a solution that has worked, please let us know!
OOS received this morning.Did anyone receive a secondary today?
According the instructions PDF, should we still be providing descriptions for community service and employment even though the prompts don't explicitly state? I'm confused since only they only clinical experience descriptions, but in the email PDF it says "6. When asked for a chronologic list, please list start and stop dates along with a brief description of the activity"
I agree, I'm completely dumbfounded that they added this question. Not everyone is able to go to protests or has the time to join a social justice organization. I definitely educated myself a lot on social justice issues during quarantine (and shared infographics / donated and the like), but I feel like it's pompous to call that "correcting" systematic discrimination issues. Even a student social justice org is unlikely to "correct" issues, although they do great work.
Don't mention it. Most people don't have pubs anyways.For the research question: I spent about 1.5 years in an astrophysics research lab but the research was not published. Should bring up the fact that our research was not published or just not even mention it?
Yes, around 400 for each.Are you guys reaching the 500 word limit for the two new prompts?
Totally agree. The prompt seems to trivialize the actual issues at hand. How can one person claim to have "corrected" these things, even a tiny piece? I'm not sure whether Miami didn't totally think through the inclusion of the question, or was brilliant to include it to see who discusses the topic with humility and tact, without being self-congratulatory (often for doing the bare minimum). As a white person, I am not writing about BIPOC topics for this prompt because it does not feel at all appropriate to sing my own praises, no matter how involved I may be in social justice. I hope it's okay to talk about systematic discrimination of other groups.even for the people who had the time during the springtime of their youth to attend protests (myself included) it feels so cringey/"fake woke" to write about something so recent and feels weird and demonstrative, as if the only purpose was to talk about how you attended them. i have another topic i can probably write about but miami is super wrong for this.