2020-2021 Rutgers (New Jersey)

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Yeah I think for ED applicants they release the secondary questions early, but with the pandemic and delayed transmission date I'm not sure what's going to happen this year. Anyone who applied ED get the secondary questions yet?
 
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ahh crap!! i really didn't wanna take another timed test before starting med school. feel like this might be because of COVID to allow them to better assess the applicant incase they weren't able to do certain activities
 
Paxromana38 said:
Yeah I think for ED applicants they release the secondary questions early, but with the pandemic and delayed transmission date I'm not sure what's going to happen this year. Anyone who applied ED get the secondary questions yet?
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I am probably late with the reply but during the seminar they mentioned that ED applicants should email Dr. H or Dean Rivero after they submit primary for secondary questions so that they can start drafting the answers. I think thats how they did it last year as well.
 
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Here's the prompts. 1500 character limit on all of them.

  1. We seek students who are self-aware, resilient and adaptable. Discuss a personal or professional challenge you’ve experienced and how you resolved it. Please include insight on what you learned about yourself as a result:

  1. We are committed to an environment which fosters collaboration, cohesiveness, equity and social justice. With this in mind, how will you contribute to the NJMS community?

  1. If you will not be a full time student between June 2020-August 2021, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity:

  1. If you chose to pursue one or more gap years prior to applying to medical school, please share insight on your decision:

  1. If you are a re-applicant, what have you done to enhance your re-application?

  1. Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy:

  1. Please elaborate on any academic challenges (including MCAT), institutional actions, and/or personal difficulties not thoroughly addressed anywhere else in your application:
 
Also, on the Demographics tab:
We recognize the importance of diversity and understand that our applicant pool is multidimensional. Therefore, please help us learn more about you:

-How do you self-identify? (Select race on dropdown menu)

-How do you self-identify culturally?

-Please share any other descriptors or information you consider important to your identity:


And then some questions on the Affiliations tab
 
medigal97 said:
Here's the prompts. 1500 character limit on all of them.

  1. We seek students who are self-aware, resilient and adaptable. Discuss a personal or professional challenge you’ve experienced and how you resolved it. Please include insight on what you learned about yourself as a result:

  1. We are committed to an environment which fosters collaboration, cohesiveness, equity and social justice. With this in mind, how will you contribute to the NJMS community?

  1. If you will not be a full time student between June 2020-August 2021, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity:

  1. If you chose to pursue one or more gap years prior to applying to medical school, please share insight on your decision:

  1. If you are a re-applicant, what have you done to enhance your re-application?

  1. Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy:

  1. Please elaborate on any academic challenges (including MCAT), institutional actions, and/or personal difficulties not thoroughly addressed anywhere else in your application:
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@TheDataKing
 
  • If you will not be a full time student between June 2020-August 2021, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity:
  • If you chose to pursue one or more gap years prior to applying to medical school, please share insight on your decision:
So if I graduated this past academic year and am now working until matriculation I'd only fill out the first, yeah? The second only is if I had a gap year and now am applying?
 
Justapremedguy said:
  • If you will not be a full time student between June 2020-August 2021, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity:
  • If you chose to pursue one or more gap years prior to applying to medical school, please share insight on your decision:
So if I graduated this past academic year and am now working until matriculation I'd only fill out the first, yeah? The second only is if I had a gap year and now am applying?
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I am in a similar situation and was planning on talking about why I wanted to take a gap year. I think it would be ok either way, but I thought if I could explain more about me it could help!
 
DuckDoc98 said:
If you are applying right after graduation do you still need to fill out the gap year essay prompt?
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I decided to fill it out because I am taking a gap year by applying now(the summer after graduating) as opposed to last year. There were reasons I chose to do that and I explained it for that essay prompt. Imo that seems like the best way to go about it
 
What do you guys think about:
  1. Using my yearbook picture as my photo. It's professional, I'm in a suit, and it's nice. But it was taken 8 months ago and they request one taken within 6 months. No one will care, right?
  2. Half of my essays are just under 1500 characters (the limit) and then I have two in the 1000-1200 range. Does that look bad?
 
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Justapremedguy said:
What do you guys think about:
  1. Using my yearbook picture as my photo. It's professional, I'm in a suit, and it's nice. But it was taken 8 months ago and they request one taken within 6 months. No one will care, right?
  2. Half of my essays are just under 1500 characters (the limit) and then I have two in the 1000-1200 range. Does that look bad?
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1. Yeah that should def be fine. Unless you look radically different now they wouldn’t even notice

2. that’s def not an issue because you’re at the lowest around 2/3 of the way to the limit which I can’t imagine someone would look at and think is a problem unless you didn’t elaborate or explain something well
 
medigal97 said:
Here's the prompts. 1500 character limit on all of them.

  1. We seek students who are self-aware, resilient and adaptable. Discuss a personal or professional challenge you’ve experienced and how you resolved it. Please include insight on what you learned about yourself as a result:

  1. We are committed to an environment which fosters collaboration, cohesiveness, equity and social justice. With this in mind, how will you contribute to the NJMS community?

  1. If you will not be a full time student between June 2020-August 2021, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity:

  1. If you chose to pursue one or more gap years prior to applying to medical school, please share insight on your decision:

  1. If you are a re-applicant, what have you done to enhance your re-application?

  1. Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy:

  1. Please elaborate on any academic challenges (including MCAT), institutional actions, and/or personal difficulties not thoroughly addressed anywhere else in your application:
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For the "Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy" question, what are you guys writing about? I'm thinking of talking about the effect that COVID-19 had and what I've been able to do instead since I've already been able to address ties to NJ and my diversity essay in other questions. How does that sound?
 
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If I applied to the BA/MD program back in high school, should I answer the re-applicant prompt? Or would it be best to call the admissions office?
 
Naioki151 said:
If I applied to the BA/MD program back in high school, should I answer the re-applicant prompt? Or would it be best to call the admissions office?
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Id go out on a limb and say so because you wouldn’t have submitted an amcas app or anything. Also now basically everything on your app is post high school so it would be strange to be considered a re-applicant

But I’d probably call/email just to be sure
 
Just took the CASPer test because of NJMS's requirement for RD... I felt like I ran out of time on every single scenario. I think I left 1-2 questions blank on every single scenario. But for all the scenarios I wrote the answer to first question pretty thoroughly. I am hoping that leaving the questions blank doesn't count negatively. Anyone who took it had similar experience? I am freaking out thinking this might the reason I might not make in!
 
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