2024-2025 Loyola (Stritch)

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2024-2025 Loyola Secondary Essay Prompts: (1-5 required, read carefully to see if 6-13 are applicable to you)

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. Questions 6-13 should 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.


If Applicable: (read carefully)
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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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.
 
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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Just got my secondaries today 7-16-24 from Loyola. Does anyone know what they mean by this prompt
"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."

Are they asking for future classes? I am taking two more post-graduate classes since I need them for two schools I applied to. Are they also asking all the address changes I ever had? Or is this changes to the original application I submitted?

Thanks in advance. 🙂
 
Just got my secondaries today 7-16-24 from Loyola. Does anyone know what they mean by this prompt
"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."

Are they asking for future classes? I am taking two more post-graduate classes since I need them for two schools I applied to. Are they also asking all the address changes I ever had? Or is this changes to the original application I submitted?

Thanks in advance. 🙂
I'm pretty sure they are asking if there are any changes since you submitted your primary
 
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Anyone having difficultly completing the name recording portion of the secondary? When I record it, it shoots an error.
 
Anyone having difficultly completing the name recording portion of the secondary? When I record it, it shoots an error.
Replying to myself in case anyone else has this issue. I emailed the Stritch email and they said they could see my recording and not to worry about it. May be worth emailing them if you have this issue.
 
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Anyone know the accepted or matriculated MCAT range? Can't find it anywhere. Is it worth it to apply here with a 100th percentile MCAT and no ties?
 
Anyone know the accepted or matriculated MCAT range? Can't find it anywhere. Is it worth it to apply here with a 100th percentile MCAT and no ties?
Loyola is pretty service oriented. Make sure you have a large amount of clinical and nonclinical volunteer hours
 
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