2024-2025 Loyola (Stritch)

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wysdoc said:
is it already on your list? Did you really apply to 57 schools and why so many?
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yeah it’s on my list already, it’s just one of my last secondaries and some of the prompts require me to write entirely new essays.

applied to this many because I got scared by all the posts of high stat people getting in nowhere [emoji24] but looking back it was unnecessary
 
wysdoc said:
3. Relate a situation within your professional formation in which you determined that something you did or said did not go over well with someone else. How did you know? What did you do? What did you learn from the experience?
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I've worked as a youth Sunday school teacher for a little while now, would it be okay to discuss a situation I encountered in this role? Not exactly sure what is meant by "professional formation". Are they looking for clinical stories instead? Just trying to tailor my responses to fit well with their Jesuit focus
 
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X0001234 said:
I've worked as a youth Sunday school teacher for a little while now, would it be okay to discuss a situation I encountered in this role? Not exactly sure what is meant by "professional formation". Are they looking for clinical stories instead? Just trying to tailor my responses to fit well with their Jesuit focus
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I think anything that contributed to your maturing into a person headed towards your responsible profession would be fair game
 
MrBear1999 said:
I received a secondary on 7/10/24. Questions are the following @wysdoc :

1-5 have a minimum of 100 words, maximum of 500 word, all other essays (excluding 8) to do not have a designated word/character count. 6-13 are only to be answered if applicable.

1. Explain how you know that you want to spend your life studying and practicing medicine. Describe how the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) can help you develop into the person and physician you hope to become.
2. Social justice, in the Jesuit tradition, justice due to each person's inherent human dignity, is an essential dimension of
education at SSOM. Describe an impactful experience working with and for under-resourced communities. Explain what you have learned about yourself through this service OR what has hindered your efforts to serve others in these environments.
3. Relate a situation within your professional formation in which you determined that something you did or said did not go over well with someone else. How did you know? What did you do? What did you learn from the experience?
4. Describe a time you received feedback about your performance and disagreed with the feedback. What did you disagree with? How did you handle it?
5. Describe a non-academic personal/professional challenge or conflict that you have experienced. Explain what skills, resources and/or strategies you employed to resolve the problem.

6. Have you or any of your relatives attended or been employed by Loyola University Chicago or the Stritch School of Medicine? If yes, please list the name, affiliation, school, and years of attendance.
7. Please indicate additional grades earned, amendments to your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of experiences, and anything else you feel we should know.
8. Please explain in more detail (in less than 1500 characters) anything that would help us understand any gaps or delays in your education, academic missteps, or personal challenges not listed elsewhere.
9. If you have not been enrolled in coursework for over two years, please let us know what you have been doing since your coursework ended.
10. Have you applied to SSOM prior to this application? If so, please list the years of your previous application submissions to SSOM and tell us how your application has improved since your previous submission.
11. Are you currently, or have you been, enrolled in any of the following programs?
12. Have you ever been convicted of a crime other than a minor traffic or parking violation? If the answer is yes, please explain below.
13. If you did not submit an advisor or committee letter, please tell us why.
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Is this a gap year question if we haven't explained what we are doing yet?

7. Please indicate additional grades earned, amendments to your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of experiences, and anything else you feel we should know.
 
helpmelol!! said:
Is this a gap year question if we haven't explained what we are doing yet?

7. Please indicate additional grades earned, amendments to your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of experiences, and anything else you feel we should know.
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This is an update question in case something has changed since you submitted AMCAS primary
 
anybody have recommendations for answering "how you know you want to spend your life studying/practicing medicine?"

My thing is that this is literally the primary application, so just a brief reiteration of it?
 
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This feels like a stupid question and I'm sure I'm overthinking it but any feedback is appreciated! In regards to what seems to be their "gap year" prompt it says "if you have not been enrolled for over two years..." and like I graduated in May 2023 so by the time I start med school (fingers crossed) it will have been two years. I want write about what I've done/my plans during this time, but I'm just a little stuck on the wording of "over two years" and if they don't consider the application cycle year. Thoughts?
 
Grass1 said:
This feels like a stupid question and I'm sure I'm overthinking it but any feedback is appreciated! In regards to what seems to be their "gap year" prompt it says "if you have not been enrolled for over two years..." and like I graduated in May 2023 so by the time I start med school (fingers crossed) it will have been two years. I want write about what I've done/my plans during this time, but I'm just a little stuck on the wording of "over two years" and if they don't consider the application cycle year. Thoughts?
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I think it means from date of application. But I don’t think saying what you have done since 2023 and what you plan to do up till matriculation will hurt you
 
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MrBear1999 said:
Interview Invite OOS yesterday, 8/1. LM 69.70, submitted secondary on 7/23.
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Is anyone interviewing in person? I am trying to decide whether I can make interviewing in-person work because I live far enough away where I need to fly and work full-time so would need to take leave.
 
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spongebobcirclepants said:
LM? Complete date?
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SushiSphinx said:
interview invite?? already?!
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berliner said:
No way. Secondary or interview?
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Interview invite! LM is around 75ish. Think I submitted 7/28?
MrBear1999 said:
Is anyone interviewing in person? I am trying to decide whether I can make interviewing in-person work because I like far enough away where I need to fly and work full-time so would need to take leave.
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Which days are in-person? I don't have access to my computer rn.
 
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