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2024-2025 Florida Atlantic (FAU) Secondary Essay Prompts:

1. Use this area to justify and/or explain any academic hardships on your transcripts (any failed and/or repeated courses due to any reason)

2. Use this area to explain exceptions to these prerequisites at your institution.

3. Whether or not you will be a full-time student, please provide details of your activities/employment for the application year. (1200 character limit including spaces)

4. Describe why you would like to attend the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at FAU. What values, skills, talents, and life experiences would you contribute to our community? (1600 character limit including spaces)

5. Please share a meaningful community service experience outside of direct patient care that has been meaningful to you. What drew you to this particular experience? How did it contribute to your personal growth and learning? What aspects of your involvement did you find particularly fulfilling? (1600 character limit including spaces)

6. How have your previous experiences, whether in paid roles or volunteer work, shaped the skills and qualities you believe will be essential for success in medical school and as a future physician? These experiences do not necessarily have to involve direct patient care. (1600 character limit including spaces)

7. Describe a situation where you effectively demonstrated your leadership skills by guiding a group or organization towards a common goal or aligning their collective efforts. (1600 character limit including spaces)

8. Share a notable personal challenge that has influenced your personal growth. Discuss the insights gained about yourself and how these lessons will assist you in navigating challenges in medical school and your future career as a physician. Describe the support systems or resources you relied on and their impact on your journey. (1600 character limit including spaces)

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Updated July 2, 2024 (page updated June 11) on The AAMC PREview® Professional Readiness Exam Participating Medical Schools and MSAR reports Look at the 2023 list to see if your school(s) wanted you to take an SJT. PREview scores are automatically released to AMCAS. Examinees do not need to...
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Is anybody else getting an error message "A problem was encountered. Please check below, correct any errors, and resubmit." when trying to continue to the next page of the secondary application? This was on the "Experience" page.
 
  • Use this area to justify and/or explain any academic hardships on your transcripts (any failed and/or repeated courses due to any reason)
  • Use this area to explain exceptions to these prerequisites at your institution.
  • Whether or not you will be a full-time student, please provide details of your activities/employment for the application year. (1200 character limit including spaces)
  • Describe why you would like to attend the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at FAU. What values, skills, talents, and life experiences would you contribute to our community? (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • Please share a meaningful community service experience outside of direct patient care that has been meaningful to you. What drew you to this particular experience? How did it contribute to your personal growth and learning? What aspects of your involvement did you find particularly fulfilling? (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • How have your previous experiences, whether in paid roles or volunteer work, shaped the skills and qualities you believe will be essential for success in medical school and as a future physician? These experiences do not necessarily have to involve direct patient care. (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • Describe a situation where you effectively demonstrated your leadership skills by guiding a group or organization towards a common goal or aligning their collective efforts. (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • Share a notable personal challenge that has influenced you personal growth. Discuss the insights gained about yourself and how these lessons will assist you in navigating challenges in medical schol and your future career as a physician. Describe the support systems or resources you relied on and their impact on your journey. (1600 character limit including spaces)
@wysdoc questions for secondaries. hope this helps 🙂
 
soldier boy said:
  • Use this area to justify and/or explain any academic hardships on your transcripts (any failed and/or repeated courses due to any reason)
  • Use this area to explain exceptions to these prerequisites at your institution.
  • Whether or not you will be a full-time student, please provide details of your activities/employment for the application year. (1200 character limit including spaces)
  • Describe why you would like to attend the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at FAU. What values, skills, talents, and life experiences would you contribute to our community? (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • Please share a meaningful community service experience outside of direct patient care that has been meaningful to you. What drew you to this particular experience? How did it contribute to your personal growth and learning? What aspects of your involvement did you find particularly fulfilling? (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • How have your previous experiences, whether in paid roles or volunteer work, shaped the skills and qualities you believe will be essential for success in medical school and as a future physician? These experiences do not necessarily have to involve direct patient care. (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • Describe a situation where you effectively demonstrated your leadership skills by guiding a group or organization towards a common goal or aligning their collective efforts. (1600 character limit including spaces)
  • Share a notable personal challenge that has influenced you personal growth. Discuss the insights gained about yourself and how these lessons will assist you in navigating challenges in medical schol and your future career as a physician. Describe the support systems or resources you relied on and their impact on your journey. (1600 character limit including spaces)
@wysdoc questions for secondaries. hope this helps 🙂
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Had a question about the letter of recommendation requirements at FAU. I am a traditional student and my college does not have a premed advisory committee, so I would need three letters from faculty, two science and one non-science. I have two letters from science professor but not for a non-science professor. The last time I had a non-science course taught by a professor was two years ago. My other non-science courses were over zoom during COVID 2020 and mainly taught by graduate students. I do have two letters from physicians that would count under the non-traditional requirements.

Are these letter of rec requirements super strict, as in my secondary won't be accepted,... or should I just email the school (scary!) for clarification.
 
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Why does the email say they are trying to assemble a mean mcat score of 510 for the incoming class when their median is actually 516?
 
futuresportsmed said:
this confused me too
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An advisor explained to me that the main MSAR data is all accepted students to that school- not matriculants. Make sure you switch it to matriculants instead.

Obviously people get accepted with crazy stats and will go to other schools. This blew my mind as my mcat is solid and I was confused how these schools have so many crazy scores better than mine to make the average so high - the 520ers skew the data significantly. I’d assume the average student in their class is in the 510-514 range. The most important data to look at on MSAR for mcat scores is the range.
 
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Is anyone having a hard time accessing the secondary? It is not letting me log in and when I do forget password, it never sends an email.
 
goldenretriever99 said:
Is anyone having a hard time accessing the secondary? It is not letting me log in and when I do forget password, it never sends an email.
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I had no issues but I'd suggest trying a different browser or clearing your browser's cache and retrying
 
Is it bad to talk about an AMCAS most meaningful experience for the question that asks about community service? It is the most meaningful community service experience I had and would be the best for me to write about.
 
eb124101 said:
Is it bad to talk about an AMCAS most meaningful experience for the question that asks about community service? It is the most meaningful community service experience I had and would be the best for me to write about.
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Probably not bad in my opinion! I have written about specific scenarios from my most meaningful experiences in essays because they are the main foundations that have gotten me to where I am today and I feel like it would be a disservice to not utilize specific scenarios and patient cases I've had from those experiences to explain my why medicine or how I navigated a tricky situation, (insert question prompt), etc
 
When I hit enter to make a new paragraph for an essay, it counts each enter as two characters. Has anyone else noticed this?
 
I'm confused...I haven't submitted my secondary for FAU (prioritizing other schools). This morning, I got an email saying they already filled their class. Like I said, FAU isn't my dream school or anything so I'm at peace with that lol.

However! I got another email from them about 3hrs later inviting me to submit my secondary?? Is this a glitch or something? Obvs don't want to waste my time/money submitting an app for a school with no spots. Any thoughts are appreciated.
 
gr00vyMed said:
I'm confused...I haven't submitted my secondary for FAU (prioritizing other schools). This morning, I got an email saying they already filled their class. Like I said, FAU isn't my dream school or anything so I'm at peace with that lol.

However! I got another email from them about 3hrs later inviting me to submit my secondary?? Is this a glitch or something? Obvs don't want to waste my time/money submitting an app for a school with no spots. Any thoughts are appreciated.
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I think it's a glitch because I received a second rejection email from the last cycle today. They had already sent me one back in late April. As if the first one wasn't enough.....
 
JolieFleur said:
I think it's a glitch because I received a second rejection email from the last cycle today. They had already sent me one back in late April. As if the first one wasn't enough...
goldenretriever99 said:
Oh wait mine says for Fall class 2024, so mine must be for last cycle too
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Weird. Mine says "the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University has completed its selection of the class entering Fall 2025."

But then later on in the email it says, "we will not be able to offer you any further consideration for the 2024 admissions cycle."

Not sure what to make of that...oh well.
 
gr00vyMed said:
Weird. Mine says "the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University has completed its selection of the class entering Fall 2025."

But then later on in the email it says, "we will not be able to offer you any further consideration for the 2024 admissions cycle."

Not sure what to make of that...oh well.
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Mine only mentions Fall 2024.
 
gr00vyMed said:
Weird. Mine says "the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University has completed its selection of the class entering Fall 2025."

But then later on in the email it says, "we will not be able to offer you any further consideration for the 2024 admissions cycle."

Not sure what to make of that...oh well.
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Update: they sent an email saying it was a mistake–applications are still open.
 
IS II received 8/19, submitted secondary 7/27! Really excited and nervous 🙂
 
mapled0nut said:
Happened yesterday (8/29)! Thanks for the well wishes and good luck to you as well!
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Hope it went well! Would you mind sharing if the asynchronous and one-on-one interviews were both behavioral or if one of them was traditional? MSAR just says "Each applicant will have a situational-behavioral style format."
 
_m31_ said:
Hope it went well! Would you mind sharing if the asynchronous and one-on-one interviews were both behavioral or if one of them was traditional? MSAR just says "Each applicant will have a situational-behavioral style format."
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From my experience: both asynchronous and one-on-one interviews featured situational and behavioral questions. The only difference between the two sessions was the Zoom vs. Sparkhire platform. For me, there was no traditional aspect anywhere. Hope this helps!
 
mapled0nut said:
From my experience: both asynchronous and one-on-one interviews featured situational and behavioral questions. The only difference between the two sessions was the Zoom vs. Sparkhire platform. For me, there was no traditional aspect anywhere. Hope this helps!
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Is Sparkhire only one take or can you redo your video?
 
Weagle Weagle said:
Is Sparkhire only one take or can you redo your video?
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One take! I feel like I remember being able to re-play my video but they explicitly state in the Sparkhire tutorial that even though you can re-play it, you cannot re-do it. So I did not re-play my videos because who wants to hear their own voice anyway if you can't change anything 😛
 
rkm24 said:
What date they gave for the decision?
Is it within a month after interview date ?
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They said in order to comply with AAMC earliest possible notification date, it would be Oct 18 for my interview group. They did not say anything about what this means for other applicants. Best of luck!
 
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