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2024-2025 Hawaii Secondary Essay Prompts
Please limit responses to 600 words per essay.
A) Describe how your background and your unique lived experiences will contribute to JABSOM's mission. (600 word limit)

B) Describe how you have impactfully contributed to a community with which you identify. (600 word limit)

C) Describe any personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii and the Pacific that you may have. If you do not have a personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii, please describe why you have chosen to apply to JABSOM. (600 word limit)

D) (Optional) If you are a re-applicant to JABSOM, please complete the following additional essay. Describe what efforts you have made to further improve your application to the MD Program. (600 word limit)



Good luck to all applying!
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Received an email yesterday that my application was received. You get one week to pay the $150 supplemental fee from when the email is sent. Supplemental is sent 5 days after payment.
 
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wysdoc said:
Please share the Secondary essay prompts when available and tag a moderator.

Good luck to all applying!
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Please limit responses to 600 words per essay.
A) Describe how your background and your unique lived experiences will contribute to JABSOM's mission. (600 word limit)
B) Describe how you have impactfully contributed to a community with which you identify. (600 word limit)
C) Describe any personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii and the Pacific that you may have. If you do not have a personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii, please describe why you have chosen to apply to JABSOM. (600 word limit)
D) If you are a re-applicant to JABSOM, please complete the following additional essay. Describe what efforts you have made to further improve your application to the MD Program. (600 word limit) Optional
 
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I'm so sad they changed their essays I spent wayy too much time pre-writing them
 
I'm a Canadian applicant and looking at MSAR I can see that applying for Hawaii is a Hail Mary shot. I'm also a black applicant and the photo of their graduating class?? of last year wasn't very motivating.

So, I'm tryna spruce up my application a bit.

Is anybody willing to give my responses a review? Just a few words.
If you choose to assist me with this: Please honest, I can take criticism. Hoping to submit within the next two days
 
Received an IS interview invite a couple weeks ago.
 
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llk20 said:
do they have a high post-interview acceptance rate?
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Incoming Class Profile | John A. Burns School of Medicine

Admitted class profile statistics including number of applicants, interviews, class size, average GPA and MCAT scores, and class composition.
admissions.jabsom.hawaii.edu admissions.jabsom.hawaii.edu

The website above has the numbers of applicants, interviewees, and acceptances from the last cycle. For in-state, it seems to be just under 50%, and for out-of-state students, around 6%.
 
Nontrad_App_098 said:
Were you put on the interview waitlist? Or was this the latest communication since submitting your secondaries?
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I was not on the interview waitlist and didn’t receive any communication before today. My application was complete 7/22.
 
Anyone that has already interviewed with Dr. Asano: how was the interview with her is she tough?
 
.docloading said:
Anyone that has already interviewed with Dr. Asano: how was the interview with her is she tough?
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It was a really good interview! It was very personable and truly conversational. I felt like I was able to explain my background, passions, life experiences to her. It was about one hour if I recall.

Although, I have heard from friends and past students that she does sometimes ask some very difficult questions or asks you to explain why you didn’t do well in terms of GPA or MCAT.

But for me personally, 10/10 experience. Very sweet woman and took the opportunity to get to know me.
 
.docloading said:
Anyone that has already interviewed with Dr. Asano: how was the interview with her is she tough?
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she was the most chill out of my three interviewers. super conversational. don’t stress
 
.docloading said:
Anyone that has already interviewed with Dr. Asano: how was the interview with her is she tough?
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Dr. Asano was super nice. Interview was extremely chill and conversational like others have said, and she seemed genuinely interested in digging into who I am as a person. My academic history is questionable so she did ask about that, but in a way that suggested she was trying to better understand how that aspect of my application fit into my overall journey up until that point.

Our interview ran a little over an hour but felt like it flew by. Just be yourself and don't stress it!
 
Anyone didn't receive email that asked for transcript (unofficial transcript is unacceptable)?
 
Anyone on the waitlist for an interview? I've been on it since early October and was wondering if anyone has gotten an II off the waitlist.
 
Did anyone get an email from the financial aid department regarding housing status for the upcoming year? Not sure if I should take this as a good sign or if they send the email out to everyone regardless of post-interview status. Thanks y'all!
 
butternoodle said:
Did anyone get an email from the financial aid department regarding housing status for the upcoming year? Not sure if I should take this as a good sign or if they send the email out to everyone regardless of post-interview status. Thanks y'all!
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Yes. Are you IS or OOS?
 
butternoodle said:
Did anyone get an email from the financial aid department regarding housing status for the upcoming year? Not sure if I should take this as a good sign or if they send the email out to everyone regardless of post-interview status. Thanks y'all!
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I did not... but I'm OOS not sure if that affects it or not
 
butternoodle said:
Did anyone get an email from the financial aid department regarding housing status for the upcoming year? Not sure if I should take this as a good sign or if they send the email out to everyone regardless of post-interview status. Thanks y'all!
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I called them about this because I thought the same thing. It turns out they just sent these out automatically if you have already done a FAFSA, whether you have admission to JABSOM or not.
 
morsches said:
I called them about this because I thought the same thing. It turns out they just sent these out automatically if you have already done a FAFSA, whether you have admission to JABSOM or not.
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Good to know, got the same email oos
 
morsches said:
I called them about this because I thought the same thing. It turns out they just sent these out automatically if you have already done a FAFSA, whether you have admission to JABSOM or not.
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omg thank you so much! i guess worst comes to worst I get a hawaii.edu email out of this whole thing!
 
Hi everyone (again)! Has anyone received an interview invite for KMTT / done it and can advise on how it went?

Thanks!
 
butternoodle said:
Aah okay good luck! Hopefully we both get good news from the program. Are you in-state / have ties to the rural community in Kaua'i?
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No, I'm out of state. My interviewer was super nice though! It was a pretty informal thing since she's a student from the first cohort and it seems like this is the first time they're really having people get interviewed since it's a relatively new program. I wouldn't sweat it too much honestly, the interview was pretty personalized and some questions are asked as a formality.
 
Does anyone know if decisions are still estimated to come out on March 14th or if there's a chance of any news earlier? No A's yet and this is my top choice, getting nervous
 
Everyone finds out on the same day in March. Only those who received a high composite will hear prior to that date
 
chirpyCHRPE said:
Everyone finds out on the same day in March. Only those who received a high composite will hear prior to that date
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Yes! I was just wondering if anyone knows what day (past years it looks like it sometimes went out earlier than the posted date online)
 
sillysoup said:
Yes! I was just wondering if anyone knows what day (past years it looks like it sometimes went out earlier than the posted date online)
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March 14. I’m in state and they usually always release the decisions the Friday before spring break starts.
 
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