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2022-2023 MU-COM Secondary Essay Prompts

1. Please share any other relevant information that you would like the MU-COM Admissions Committee to know about you.

2. Indicate any changes or additions that have occurred since submitting your AACOMAS application. (Including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, research, military service, academic warnings, conduct violations, and/or convictions.)

3. Are you interested in practicing medicine in Indiana? If yes, please describe your interest and reasons why. If no, please explain why not.

4. Describe your motivation for attending MU-COM and osteopathic medicine. Please be specific.

5. Please explain any gaps in education or employment longer than holidays and semester breaks

6. In which area of medicine are you most interested in practicing and why (choose up to 3)

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1. Please share any other relevant information that you would like the MU-COM Admissions Committee to know about you.
2. Indicate any changes or additions that have occurred since submitting your AACOMAS application. (Including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, research, military service, academic warnings, conduct violations, and/or convictions.)
3. Are you interested in practicing medicine in Indiana? If yes, please describe your interest and reasons why. If no, please explain why not.
4. Describe your motivation for attending MU-COM and osteopathic medicine. Please be specific.
5. Please explain any gaps in education or employment longer than holidays and semester breaks
6. In which area of medicine are you most interested in practicing and why (choose up to 3)
 
soosh97 said:
1. Please share any other relevant information that you would like the MU-COM Admissions Committee to know about you.
2. Indicate any changes or additions that have occurred since submitting your AACOMAS application. (Including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, research, military service, academic warnings, conduct violations, and/or convictions.)
3. Are you interested in practicing medicine in Indiana? If yes, please describe your interest and reasons why. If no, please explain why not.
4. Describe your motivation for attending MU-COM and osteopathic medicine. Please be specific.
5. Please explain any gaps in education or employment longer than holidays and semester breaks
6. In which area of medicine are you most interested in practicing and why (choose up to 3)
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Are there any character/word limits to the questions?
 
How long are your responses for the question on the top 3 specialties (no word limit)? Mine are like 200 each
 
Anyone else having server issues with the portal?
 
GokuZ said:
How long are your responses for the question on the top 3 specialties (no word limit)? Mine are like 200 each
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Mine too. And I was having an issue paying but I tried again after 10 minutes and it worked
 
helpmeouthere said:
Mine too. And I was having an issue paying but I tried again after 10 minutes and it worked
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Same here. I hit submit for payment and then got a server error message. Then a few minutes later, I still received a confirmation email with the transaction receipt number we have to input on the portal to mark that step as "complete" with a green check mark. All good in that regard. But as of right now, I can't even log back into the portal to submit my secondary.
 
GokuZ said:
Same here. I hit submit for payment and then got a server error message. Then a few minutes later, I still received a confirmation email with the transaction receipt number we have to input on the portal to mark that step as "complete" with a green check mark. All good in that regard. But as of right now, I can't even log back into the portal to submit my secondary.
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I can't login either, just checked. Also that glitch caused me to be charged twice....not sure if that's worth a call since the receipt says it's nonrefundable 😅 it was $100 though
 
helpmeouthere said:
I can't login either, just checked. Also that glitch caused me to be charged twice....not sure if that's worth a call since the receipt says it's nonrefundable 😅 it was $100 though
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I would try and get a refund since it was a glitch/server error that caused you to get charged twice
 
For the question asking us to explain gaps in education/employment, is this an appropriate space to write about current gap year plans, or is this only referring to gaps from the past?

Also, I found it interesting that they asked a COVID question given there was an essay for it on the primary. Should I just try to find something new to write about for this secondary question or somewhat rewrite what I already included in my primary COVID essay?
 
premed476 said:
Mine are around 100 words. Should I add more? lol
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Quality > Quantity. Personally, mine took like 200 words for like two of them, and about 300 for the other. There is no word limit, so I think its about giving a thoughtful response.
 
GokuZ said:
Same here. I hit submit for payment and then got a server error message. Then a few minutes later, I still received a confirmation email with the transaction receipt number we have to input on the portal to mark that step as "complete" with a green check mark. All good in that regard. But as of right now, I can't even log back into the portal to submit my secondary.
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+1
 
GokuZ said:
Same here. I hit submit for payment and then got a server error message. Then a few minutes later, I still received a confirmation email with the transaction receipt number we have to input on the portal to mark that step as "complete" with a green check mark. All good in that regard. But as of right now, I can't even log back into the portal to submit my secondary.
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Thx for this. I waited after payment even though it showed me an error but received an email a few minutes later. I would've paid again if it wasn't for this message!! THX MUCH.
 
Any of you who is OOS got secondary yet? Mine primary was verified on 06/17 and I did not have receive any notification or secondary from MU! So paranoid rn
 
OOS, app received 6/16, secondary received 6/20
Just tried to pay for submitting the secondary but it gave me an error page and charged my credit card.... Got an email with the confirmation after a few minutes luckily
 
MikeC61 said:
OOS, app received 6/16, secondary received 6/20
Just tried to pay for submitting the secondary but it gave me an error page. Still charged my credit card though ......
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It does that. Don't pay again. you'll get an email confirmation in a few mins
 
If you got charged twice (like me) they give you a refund! 🙂 So if anyone else did that, give them a call
 
Got secondary,oos. I do have a question about the lors. It says a committee packet plus a science letter? I’m a bit confused on this. My letter packet, as far as I’m aware contains letters from science profs. Do I need a separate one not in packet?
 
drewmighty said:
Got secondary,oos. I do have a question about the lors. It says a committee packet plus a science letter? I’m a bit confused on this. My letter packet, as far as I’m aware contains letters from science profs. Do I need a separate one not in packet?
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I'm also in a similar boat. I have a committee letter which fully includes letters from multiple people (one of which is a science professor)
 
How much are you guys saying for if you are interested in practicing medicine in Indiana? I don't think I have it in me to talk about why I'm so interested in Indiana and use up all the 300 words.
 
eturch said:
How much are you guys saying for if you are interested in practicing medicine in Indiana? I don't think I have it in me to talk about why I'm so interested in Indiana and use up all the 300 words.
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I said no (OOS), gave a good explanation why, and used 150 words.
premed476 said:
Has anyone been marked complete yet?
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No, they said in your confirmation email you won't have LOR marked as received until they read them, and to allow them at least 4 weeks.
 
eturch said:
How much are you guys saying for if you are interested in practicing medicine in Indiana? I don't think I have it in me to talk about why I'm so interested in Indiana and use up all the 300 words.
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140-150 for me
 
I have a feeling that saying no is a big red flag for them as why would they want to teach anyone who is just going to leave the state vs ppl willing to stay and help in area?
 
drewmighty said:
I have a feeling that saying no is a big red flag for them as why would they want to teach anyone who is just going to leave the state vs ppl willing to stay and help in area?
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Last year 43% of their class was OOS, I don't think they expect everyone to stay.
 
drewmighty said:
Maybe not but at least stating an interest of staying is good no?
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Of course - if your interest is genuine and backed up with good reasoning. But I would not consider putting no as a 'big red flag', especially if you are someone with no connections to Indiana.
 
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