2024-2025 Commonwealth (Geisinger)

[wysdoc]

Please share the Secondary essay prompts when available and tag a moderator.

Good luck to all applying!
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[Mr.Smile12]

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[supercoolkid2000]

did anyone get secondaries yet

 

[justanaverageguy]

did anyone get secondaries yet

Not yet

 

[berliner]

did anyone get secondaries yet

Yea, A few days ago

 

[bannervein]

Yea, A few days ago

Could you share the prompts please?

 

[supercoolkid2000]

Yea, A few days ago

did they change? can you post them?

 

[BiomedEGR777]

OOS +1 prompts did not change

 

[robot_soup]

+1 OOS

 

[stinkygirl203]

+1 IS

 

[soldier boy]

+1 OOS and submitted

 

[palmtree13]

anyone else not getting their password reset email from them??

 

[shrooberry]

+1 OOS

 

[shrooberry]

Prompts are same as last year's @wysdoc

If you are applying to the Abigail Geisinger Scholars Program, please share with the Admissions Committee what primary care and/or psychiatry means to you, and why you believe you are a good fit for the Abigail Geisinger Scholars Program. (Still answer questions 2-4 below though. Only question 1 is substituted by this prompt)

If not:

1. Given Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine’s unique mission and values, please tell us why you believe you are a good fit for our institution.

2. List the five most important attributes you believe a physician should possess. Please choose one that you believe you embody and describe a personal experience that demonstrates this trait?

3. Geisinger Commonwealth values diversity, health equity, inclusion, and social justice. Tell us how you will share in this mission.

4. If you have previously applied to medical school, please describe your significant experiences between this year’s application and your previous application. If you are not a previous applicant, please type, “N/A” in the response area.

 

[StraightAd57]

For the first question, should we mainly focus on the mission at Geisinger or should we identify any specific intiatives/programs to indicate why we would be a good fit or is it a mix of both?

 

[jacksparrow1]

Is anyone else having an issue accessing the portal?

 

[youngdumbandbroke]

Is anyone else having an issue accessing the portal?

Yes, mine is down as well

 

[coolkid5678]

What’s the character or word count for the prompts? I’m also having issues accessing the portal right now. Keep getting an error page ugh

 

[youngdumbandbroke]

What’s the character or word count for the prompts? I’m also having issues accessing the portal right now. Keep getting an error page ugh

It’s 1500 characters!

 

[jacksparrow1]

Are people approaching #3 as a psuedo diversity question?

 

[StraightAd57]

Mine has been down the whole day. Anyone else still experiencing this?

 

[jacksparrow1]

Mine has been down the whole day. Anyone else still experiencing this?

I have, if it's not back up tomorrow I am going to email them

 

[work8888]

For the first question, should we mainly focus on the mission at Geisinger or should we identify any specific intiatives/programs to indicate why we would be a good fit or is it a mix of both?

^^ rt

 

[jacksparrow1]

^^ rt

@StraightAd57 I did a mix of both- included 2 of the mission values that interest me and programs I would like to do there based on my past experiences

 

[SushiSphinx]

From GCSOM Website:

• All applicants are required to submit one pre-professional/pre-health/committee letter or three evaluation/recommendation letters from faculty who are familiar with the applicant’s career goals and academic coursework.
• The admissions committee will consider additional letters that highlight and support facets of an applicant’s application portfolio not previously addressed, and are submitted via the AMCAS Letter Service. Students may submit a maximum of four letters.

Do the three "faculty" have to be professors? If so, do all three need to be science professors? MSAR says so, but the Geisinger website is more vague.

 

[youngdumbandbroke]

From GCSOM Website:

• All applicants are required to submit one pre-professional/pre-health/committee letter or three evaluation/recommendation letters from faculty who are familiar with the applicant’s career goals and academic coursework.
• The admissions committee will consider additional letters that highlight and support facets of an applicant’s application portfolio not previously addressed, and are submitted via the AMCAS Letter Service. Students may submit a maximum of four letters.

Do the three "faculty" have to be professors? If so, do all three need to be science professors? MSAR says so, but the Geisinger website is more vague.

I would trust the website over MSAR info. I think that "faculty" could be professors or a research supervisor. I personally did 2 science and 1 non-science professor.

 

[SushiSphinx]

I would trust the website over MSAR info. I think that "faculty" could be professors or a research supervisor. I personally did 2 science and 1 non-science professor.

Okay great, thank you so much!

 

[Dandori]

+ 1 II IS

 

[AspiringSurgeon1212]

+ 1 II IS

What are your stats like? MCAT? GPA?

 

[Dandori]

What are your stats like? MCAT? GPA?

512 MCAT, 4.0 GPA

 

[berliner]

Anybody Get OOS II's yet?

 

[BigSneed]

I still have to submit my secondary💀. Am I too late for this school?

 

[SushiSphinx]

I still have to submit my secondary💀. Am I too late for this school?

no lol it's still july

 

[sunny1717]

II IS

when did you submit your secondary

 

[soldier boy]

anyone with OOS get an II yet?

 

[BiomedEGR777]

anyone with OOS get an II yet?

Not that I have seen, but SDN and Reddit are only small portions of the overall applicant pool

 

[archale27]

II OOS

 

[ribonucleoprotein]

II OOS

congrats!! LM + complete date?

 

[archale27]

congrats!! LM + complete date?

I'm new so I'm not sure what LM means but completed on 07/30

 

[ribonucleoprotein]

I'm new so I'm not sure what LM means but completed on 07/30

mcat and gpa!

 

[stew_md]

OOS and still have not received secondary yet, should I reach out to admissions or is it normal for this school?

 

[berliner]

damn brother. I submitted 7/7. good stuff tho!

 

[supercoolkid2000]

OOS II

 

[archale27]

mcat and gpa!

Thanks! 3.7 GPA and 520 MCAT

 

[nmb225]

OOS II 8/8...this would be a homecoming for me

 

[premedgal444]

OOS II 8/8...this would be a homecoming for me

LM and complete date?

 

[nmb225]

LM and complete date?

I don't know my LM because I never bothered with it. Received the secondary 7/11 and turned it around same-day (pre-wrote).

 

[BigSneed]

I don't know my LM because I never bothered with it. Received the secondary 7/11 and turned it around same-day (pre-wrote).

They are basically asking what is your MCAT / GPA combo when they say LizzyM

 

[clumsycamel161]

OOS II a few minutes ago

 

[ribonucleoprotein]

OOS II a few minutes ago

congrats! stats + complete date?