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2024-2025 Baylor Secondary Essay Prompts: (Essays 1 and 3 required) (Same as last year's)

Essay 1. In addition to training as a competent physician, please select up to two additional areas of interest from the items below that you may want to pursue during your medical studies. Your responses will have no bearing on applications to joint degrees or special programs to which you might also apply.
What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1000 character limit)
-Clinical Research
-Healthcare/disparities/medical undeserved communities
-Academic Medicine
-Community Health
-Simulation in medical education
-Health systems science
-TelehealthAdvocacy

Essay 2. Are you planning to matriculate into medical school immediately after completing your undergraduate education? If not, please explain what activities and/or careers you have pursued in the time between your college education and your application.
(If no) Please explain (no limit) (If yes) No essay needed

Essay 3.
Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat TMDSAS or AMCAS application information. This section is mandatory. Please make sure you submit an essay or your application will not be reviewed by the committee. (2000 character limit)

Good luck to all applying!

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Any idea when Baylor sends out secondaries? Is it traditionally later than other TMDSAS schools seeing as they have historically been a school applied to through AMCAS?
 
Remember to schedule your Casper exam.
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In addition to training as a competent physician, please select up to two additional areas of interest from the items below that you may want to pursue during your medical studies. Your responses will have no bearing on applications to joint degrees or special programs to which you might also apply. *

-Clinical Research
-Healthcare/disparities/medical undeserved communities
-Academic Medicine
-Community Health
-Simulation in medical education
-Health systems science
-TelehealthAdvocacy

What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1000 character limit) *

Are you planning to matriculate into medical school immediately after completing your undergraduate education? If not, please explain what activities and/or careers you have pursued in the time between your college education and your application. *
(If no) Please explain (no limit)

Special Experiences​

Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat TMDSAS or AMCAS application information. This section is mandatory. Please make sure you submit an essay or your application will not be reviewed by the committee. (2000 character limit) *

@chilly_md
 
Trying to pay the supplemental fee, it says unable to proceed with payment because of technical difficulties. The credit is not the issue, and I have used multiple but it won't work. Should I just try again tomorrow?
 
Neuroscie23 said:
Trying to pay the supplemental fee, it says unable to proceed with payment because of technical difficulties. The credit is not the issue, and I have used multiple but it won't work. Should I just try again tomorrow?
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Yeah, this is the first day they announced their secondary so they may have some glitches on their portal.
If it's still not letting your payment go through tomorrow, send a short email to the admissions address letting them know the portal doesn't seem to be working.
 
Neuroscie23 said:
Trying to pay the supplemental fee, it says unable to proceed with payment because of technical difficulties. The credit is not the issue, and I have used multiple but it won't work. Should I just try again tomorrow?
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having the same issue here, seems to be on their end.
 
How do I access the secondary portal for Baylor? Also their website currently states "Attention: Due to delays, the supplemental application will now open on or before June 15."
 
vegyaki said:
How do I access the secondary portal for Baylor? Also their website currently states "Attention: Due to delays, the supplemental application will now open on or before June 15."
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Well , now that you know what this year’s essay questions are for Baylor, work on those and save them until later in June when the portal is ready
 
Adiemus said:
Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat TMDSAS or AMCAS application information. This section is mandatory. Please make sure you submit an essay or your application will not be reviewed by the committee. (2000 character limit) *
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I am trying to figure out which essay would fit better here:

1) Essay regarding starting a nonprofit organization, why I did it, what impact it had on myself and the community
2) Essay about facing adversity through injury, losing my ability to compete in my sport, and how my mindset shifted following this incident

Any thoughts??
 
CheeesyBoi said:
I am trying to figure out which essay would fit better here:

1) Essay regarding starting a nonprofit organization, why I did it, what impact it had on myself and the community
2) Essay about facing adversity through injury, losing my ability to compete in my sport, and how my mindset shifted following this incident

Any thoughts??
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Don’t repeat an essay you have already written in one of your 3 TMDSAS essays or in the Most Meaningful blurbs.
It should be something interesting, unique, and positive about you.
Either of these would fit if they’re not already featured in your primary app,
 
wysdoc said:
Yeah, this is the first day they announced their secondary so they may have some glitches on their portal.
If it's still not letting your payment go through tomorrow, send a short email to the admissions address letting them know the portal doesn't seem to be working.
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ok thank you. I am about to try,, and if it doesn't work I will just call or email. them.
 
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wysdoc said:
Did you see the post a few above this saying the portal won’t be ready until June 15?
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yes. Does that mean they won't be sending out more secondaries until then, or that the portal won't work until then? I am currently on it and it seems to be working fine, but I haven't submitted my payment yet. I saw someone on here last night post that they had the same issue. Maybe it won't work until the 15th?
 
Neuroscie23 said:
yes. Does that mean they won't be sending out more secondaries until then, or that the portal won't work until then? I am currently on it and it seems to be working fine, but I haven't submitted my payment yet. I saw someone on here last night post that they had the same issue. Maybe it won't work until the 15th?
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I understood it to mean the portal won’t be working until then
 
wysdoc said:
I understood it to mean the portal won’t be working until then
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ok so at least the delay in submission won't be looked down upon. Also, for the special experiences, I am not sure if what I have wrote is ok. I wrote about a few of my experiences/roles, which I kind of already talked about in the experiences section.

edit: I am now thinking of writing about some hardships I faced in college, including family deaths. but how I continued to succeed in school and extracurricular and how my mindset shifted etc. I think this would be better than the former answer because it is new, and shows prevailing through adversity.
 
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Hi all, current MS4 at MD school here. Willing to help out with PS, secondaries, AMCAS, whatever you need. PM me if interested
 
wysdoc said:
Don’t repeat an essay you have already written in one of your 3 TMDSAS essays or in the Most Meaningful blurbs.
It should be something interesting, unique, and positive about you.
Either of these would fit if they’re not already featured in your primary app,
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Would be interesting to read how the injury helped give you more perspective on life and you started doing something more interesting like service or research with the additional free time.
 
texasvandy said:
Would be interesting to read how the injury helped give you more perspective on life and you started doing something more interesting like service or research with the additional free time.
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Oooo yes I do like that
 
Does Baylor pre-screen for their secondaries now? I submitted my application on the first day and I still haven't heard anything from them. Getting a little worried at this point as other people have received theirs.
 
madcat5566 said:
Does Baylor pre-screen for their secondaries now? I submitted my application on the first day and I still haven't heard anything from them. Getting a little worried at this point as other people have received theirs.
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I think very few people have received them. May just be coming out in batches.
 
I called Baylor and they said everything is paused on their secondary portal, and it is a site wide issue. They do not have an update on when we will be able to place the payment for our secondaries.
 
So for the first question, are they asking about the knowledge skills and attributes for our career path in the two boxes we selected above? Or for being a physician in general.
 
Any updates on when Baylor can be submitted? I just tried and got the same error. I know they said that they were planning to have it straightened out by today.
 
Neuroscie23 said:
Still have not heard anything about submitting the secondary. hopefuly something soon.
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Baylor is very good at informing applicants, so if they say they will let you know when the technical issue is fixed, they will.
(I can't say this for all the TX schools).
Guys, I know you're nervous and you want everything to be just perfect, but save "calling" the admissions office for things that are really urgent or time-sensitive. This is NOT one of those times. Early in the application cycle they will be working 8 to 5 weekdays.
 
For those wondering, Baylor is now good to submit! They seem to have figured out the issues they were having with their payment service.
 
Baylor is all set for submission. Took them long enough!
 
TheDeadrok said:
Weird! I'm sure they're just saving the best for last, I wouldn't worry about it.
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You're too kind 🤣, who needs Baylor amirite? (Me, that's who). Jokes aside, I'm not stressed (surprising for me!); I'll try again tomorrow, but my bet is they're just fixing residual issues. Patience is a virtue and all that!
 
Adiemus said:
In addition to training as a competent physician, please select up to two additional areas of interest from the items below that you may want to pursue during your medical studies. Your responses will have no bearing on applications to joint degrees or special programs to which you might also apply. *

-Clinical Research
-Healthcare/disparities/medical undeserved communities
-Academic Medicine
-Community Health
-Simulation in medical education
-Health systems science
-TelehealthAdvocacy

What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1000 character limit) *

Are you planning to matriculate into medical school immediately after completing your undergraduate education? If not, please explain what activities and/or careers you have pursued in the time between your college education and your application. *
(If no) Please explain (no limit)

Special Experiences​

Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat TMDSAS or AMCAS application information. This section is mandatory. Please make sure you submit an essay or your application will not be reviewed by the committee. (2000 character limit) *

@chilly_md
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Does the "What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?" question need to be related to what I clicked on the checkmarks above it? I wrote it as a general "how am I fit for medicine" but not specifically for why I am fit for "academic medicine" (which is one of my check marks).
 
ricefanatic said:
Does the "What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?" question need to be related to what I clicked on the checkmarks above it? I wrote it as a general "how am I fit for medicine" but not specifically for why I am fit for "academic medicine" (which is one of my check marks).
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It’s a shorter essay, 1000 characters to cover 1 ( or both if you chose 2 things).
It should be directed at the areas of interest you selected, NOT “why medicine.”
Don’t quote your primary essays or activity descriptions exactly.
 
Sorry if this has been answered before-- but is my secondary not going to be reviewed until the CASPER scores are in? I just took it last week so I think it may take another week for it to be transmitted to schools.
 
emonggalep said:
Sorry if this has been answered before-- but is my secondary not going to be reviewed until the CASPER scores are in? I just took it last week so I think it may take another week for it to be transmitted to schools.
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They won't review your application until it is complete, i.e. all scores in so yeah it'll probably be about a week. But that shouldn't delay much at all
 
Are y'alls casper scores marked as received in the Baylor portal? Ik they had delays with payment so Im guessing they're behind on getting the scores matched to the applicants
 
wander21 said:
Are y'alls casper scores marked as received in the Baylor portal? Ik they had delays with payment so Im guessing they're behind on getting the scores matched to the applicants
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Lots of schools have been relatively slow with verifying CASPer. Don't fret, they'll get it done when they can.
 
wander21 said:
Are y'alls casper scores marked as received in the Baylor portal? Ik they had delays with payment so Im guessing they're behind on getting the scores matched to the applicants
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I submitted the secondary yesterday with payment and it was fully approved today.
 
Should I email them? Still haven’t received anything and I was complete 3 mins after it opened
 
cmoney777 said:
Should I email them? Still haven’t received anything and I was complete 3 mins after it opened
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I am in the same boat as you @cmoney777 . I still have not received my secondary from Baylor 🙁 I am really excited about this school too. I called them last week, and they said they send secondary invites out in batches and were having issues sending out the most recent batch. As @wysdoc said, we just have to wait for the time being.
 
ghostpants512 said:
I am in the same boat as you @cmoney777 . I still have not received my secondary from Baylor 🙁 I am really excited about this school too. I called them last week, and they said they send secondary invites out in batches and were having issues sending out the most recent batch. As @wysdoc said, we just have to wait for the time being.
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Is there a point when I should reach out to them? I submitted first day as well and have yet to hear anything, but I know people who submitted days after me and already received their secondary.
 
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