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2024-2025 Hackensack Meridian Secondary Essay Prompts:

1. Why are you interested in attending the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine? 500 words

2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. 500 words

3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? 500 words

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Now that previous cycle is over, just wanted to let you all know that this is the most disorganized admissions team and disrespectful to its applicants. Will not reply to emails or phone calls. Interviewed in the fall didn’t hear anything till Feb then put on waitlist. Received email about having high chances to be accepted WITH scholarship in June and then sent rejection letter on the FIIRST day of orientation. So disrespectful to its applicants. They need to do a serious self reflection on how to handle the admissions process. Hope this helps all of you in this cycle.
 
KHI67 said:
Received email about having high chances to be accepted WITH scholarship
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Sorry that happened. It does sound a bit misleading to mention a scholarship prior to admission. Thanks for the heads up.
 
KHI67 said:
Now that previous cycle is over, just wanted to let you all know that this is the most disorganized admissions team and disrespectful to its applicants. Will not reply to emails or phone calls. Interviewed in the fall didn’t hear anything till Feb then put on waitlist. Received email about having high chances to be accepted WITH scholarship in June and then sent rejection letter on the FIIRST day of orientation. So disrespectful to its applicants. They need to do a serious self reflection on how to handle the admissions process. Hope this helps all of you in this cycle.
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Want to second this the worst experience ever kept me in limbo for a year with no communication ridiculous
 
Dang I'm sorry y'all. Are they usually like this towards OOS applicants or?
 
XflamingeskimoX said:
Thank you for sharing. Was on the border about applying to this school.
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My post was strictly for the admissions team and their process. The school itself you can read posts by people who are attending, The post was meant to make applicants aware and to give feedback to the admission team to become more professional and treat the applicants they interview with more respect.
 
OOS Secondary received 7/11

1. Why are you interested in attending the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine? 500 words

2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. 500 words

3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? 500 words


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Zirah said:
OOS Secondary received 7/11

1. Why are you interested in attending the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine? 500 words

2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. 500 words

3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? 500 words


@wysdoc
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is this the same as last year?
 
Zirah said:
OOS Secondary received 7/11

1. Why are you interested in attending the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine? 500 words

2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. 500 words

3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? 500 words


@wysdoc
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For prompt 2, how different does the different group/culture/idea have to be from our own? For example, I’m Latino, but I didn’t know anything about the Latin-American immigrant experience until I met Latin-American immigrants. Could I talk about this?

Or conversely, would individuals experiencing a specific illness work as a “group”? I’m not sure if they’re looking more for discussion of cultural diversity
 
Just got sent the link to fill out the secondary for the second time 🙃. Like yes thank you for the reminder lol
 
Zirah said:
2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. 500 words
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Many schools have prompts similar to this, but this one is particularly hard due to that phrasing. "how it impacted you" is so vagueeee
 
Is the third prompt essentially a reiteration of our personal statement? How much overlap should there be in terms of content? Or should we focus on activities we did not emphasize in the PS?
 
justavegetable said:
Is the third prompt essentially a reiteration of our personal statement? How much overlap should there be in terms of content? Or should we focus on activities we did not emphasize in the PS?
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focus on activities not emphasized in the PS i'd say. because its give. a bigger picture and more info on who you are yk
 
does any one know what dual degrees they offer? or how to find research projects or labs at this school? i feel like the website is both very informative and says a lot but also says absolutely nothing at the same time.
 
pptf327 said:
does any one know what dual degrees they offer? or how to find research projects or labs at this school? i feel like the website is both very informative and says a lot but also says absolutely nothing at the same time.
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literally here to ask the same question... idk what kind of electives or other optional programs they really have
 
miffeddoc said:
literally here to ask the same question... idk what kind of electives or other optional programs they really have
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i could only write about the human dimension thing basically. like i usually like to find a prof doing some kind of research im interested in. but the faculty pages are largely unhelpful, the seton hall page is a loop, and every time i googled someone only their linked in came up
 
pptf327 said:
i could only write about the human dimension thing basically. like i usually like to find a prof doing some kind of research im interested in. but the faculty pages are largely unhelpful, the seton hall page is a loop, and every time i googled someone only their linked in came up
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literally same LOL usually I try to relate it to my research but nope oop. and its 500 words lol
 
Hackensack website down for anyone else or is it just me?
 
Mine is still pending too. Don't know why because it said they received my letters a month+ ago
Wake forest or another school was like this too so I'm just assuming they're waiting to process
 
I didn't realize this school needed Duet and my Casper score has already been sent out. If I take the Duet now, will it be sent to Hackensack? Not exactly sure how the system works
 
Just got an email saying all requirements were completed and now in holistic review.
 
Sakkarai7481 said:
I didn't realize this school needed Duet and my Casper score has already been sent out. If I take the Duet now, will it be sent to Hackensack? Not exactly sure how the system works
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I did this as well. After you take the Duet, it will be transmitted to your distribution list within 24 hours 🙂
 
I decided not to submit my secondary to HMSOM after struggling to find any information about the school on their website. They boast an individualized and open 4th year, but fail to share any specifics regarding what you can actually do with this final year. I even went through the very thick student manual and it was equally as vague. I couldn't find any info about research or anything unique or specific to comment about in their 500-word why us essay. If anyone on admissions sees this, please either remove the why us essay or provide us with info about your school.
 
flowerplant2000 said:
so its normal for the portal to say that LORs are "pending review" even tho my committee letter was received on 7/17. It also says that "prerequisite verification" and "application review" is pending.

I submitted secondary on 7/29/24
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Yes. It seems that they only started marking those complete today and they're likely doing them in order. The first day the secondary was sent out was 7/15, so they'll start with the people who submitted that day and go from there 🙂
 
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