Yes! "Thank you for reaching out! If you feel as though it was an extended gap period, we recommend completing that question. Essentially the committee would like to know what you were up to and any experiences you may have had while out of college/employment. Many of our applicants take gap years so that question helps our committee understand how each applicant used that time."
I have 124 on the CARS, so I am talking about it. I think they will still see it.
I honestly think it can be anything you haven't shared in the previous secondary responses or your primary. If you wanted to expand on something too but couldn't because of character/word count you could probably do that here as well
Great. I am leaning towards reflection, but then I am an OOS applicant, so I thought about why we essay.
Yeah I'm OOS as well and was originally thinking a why us but when I researched their website they didn't really have a whole lot of unique programs I felt I could meaningfully connect with and write about so I chose just to write about my characteristics further and what I could bring to the class using stories as example that I hadn't gotten to use yet
Great, I think I have an idea!
Talked about my family and upbringing
Yes, that should cover the community aspect of the question. When I applied I wrote about how I saw the social determinants of health impact patients in my previous clinical experience.
Personally I would not talk about working in a research lab. It sounds like they want to get to know about you as a person, not as a student/worker. They already have your activites 😉
Thank you @ecobio ! I think I’ll talk about my heritage and why/how that shaped me! Good luck!
I talked about being a major collector/player in TCG communities
Got the same. I assume it's automated as well.
I was thinking about writing about how covid impacted me. I feel my ability to get experience in medicine was hindered a lot by covid. Does anyone think this is a good idea? Or is it better to write about something else?
This was one of the secondary prompts a few years ago, so definitely something you could write about.
I was told that it would be better to not talk about previous waitlists with schools but I could be wrong. I think it does show growth but some schools may see it as like i hope you consider me this time because I was waitlisted last time. IDK my thought process could be wrong
The big Reddit thread has nothing on Albany yet and nothing here so I’m a little skeptical given the current neuroticism levels around these parts lol
What big Reddit thread?? There are more places for me to be neurotic?
lowwwww blow. they know what they're doing that's a crazy move
Same… should be illegal haha
Better start packing the sunscreeni never got a newsletter
I have an irrational fear that they will know that I have unsubscribed and they count it against me haha
