2024-2025 Rutgers (New Jersey)

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2024-2025 Rutgers (New Jersey) Secondary Essay Prompts: (6 required, #7 optional) 1500 characters each

1. We are committed to supporting our NJMS community by enhancing collaboration between students, staff, and faculty, with a dedicated focus on humanism, health equity and social justice. How do you envision yourself contributing to the NJMS community?

2. We seek students who are respectful, self-aware, humble, resilient, team-oriented, and adaptable. Discuss a personal or professional challenge you have experienced and share insight on what you learned about yourself and how the challenge was resolved.

3. If you have chosen to pursue any “growth/gap” time prior to applying or prior to your intended matriculation to medical school, please share insight on your decision for growth/gap time:

4. If you will not be a full-time student between July 2024 and July 2025, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity during that time:

5. If you are a re-applicant, please share what you have done to enhance your candidacy and re-application?

6. Please elaborate on challenges not thoroughly addressed anywhere else in your application (Please feel free to address any or all of the following if applicable: Institutional Actions, Academic and/or MCAT inconsistencies, personal challenges,):

7. Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy:


ED SPECIFIC ESSAYS
1. Please share why you have decided to apply as an Early Decision applicant, as well as insight on your Motivation for NJMS?

2. As an Early Decision applicant, how do you intend to enhance your preparation for a successful transition into NJMS over the next year?


Good luck to all applying!
Interview Feedback:
 
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Just submitted my ED app!
Sent AMCAS 6/27 - verified in 20 min
Received secondary 6/28
App complete 6/30

Good luck to everyone this cycle 🙂

@wysdoc

ESSAYS
We are committed to supporting our NJMS community by enhancing collaboration between students, staff, and faculty, with a dedicated focus on humanism, health equity and social justice. How do you envision yourself contributing to the NJMS community?

We seek students who are respectful, self-aware, humble, resilient, team-oriented, and adaptable. Discuss a personal or professional challenge you have experienced and share insight on what you learned about yourself and how the challenge was resolved.

If you have chosen to pursue any “growth/gap” time prior to applying or prior to your intended matriculation to medical school, please share insight on your decision for growth/gap time:

If you will not be a full-time student between July 2024 and July 2025, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity during that time:

If you are a re-applicant, please share what you have done to enhance your candidacy and re-application?

Please elaborate on challenges not thoroughly addressed anywhere else in your application (Please feel free to address any or all of the following if applicable: Institutional Actions, Academic and/or MCAT inconsistencies, personal challenges,):

Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy:


ED SPECIFIC ESSAYS
Please share why you have decided to apply as an Early Decision applicant, as well as insight on your Motivation for NJMS:

As an Early Decision applicant, how do you intend to enhance your preparation for a successful transition into NJMS over the next year:
 
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Does the question, "If you have chosen to pursue any “growth/gap” time prior to applying or prior to your intended matriculation to medical school, please share insight on your decision for growth/gap time" still need to be answered if you are applying directly after college?
 
Just submitted my ED app!
Sent AMCAS 6/27 - verified in 20 min
Received secondary 6/28
App complete 6/30

Good luck to everyone this cycle 🙂

@wysdoc

ESSAYS
We are committed to supporting our NJMS community by enhancing collaboration between students, staff, and faculty, with a dedicated focus on humanism, health equity and social justice. How do you envision yourself contributing to the NJMS community?

We seek students who are respectful, self-aware, humble, resilient, team-oriented, and adaptable. Discuss a personal or professional challenge you have experienced and share insight on what you learned about yourself and how the challenge was resolved.

If you have chosen to pursue any “growth/gap” time prior to applying or prior to your intended matriculation to medical school, please share insight on your decision for growth/gap time:

If you will not be a full-time student between July 2024 and July 2025, please describe in detail your planned activities, including projected time commitment for each activity during that time:

If you are a re-applicant, please share what you have done to enhance your candidacy and re-application?

Please elaborate on challenges not thoroughly addressed anywhere else in your application (Please feel free to address any or all of the following if applicable: Institutional Actions, Academic and/or MCAT inconsistencies, personal challenges,):

Please discuss any additional information you feel may help us in our review of your candidacy:


ED SPECIFIC ESSAYS
Please share why you have decided to apply as an Early Decision applicant, as well as insight on your Motivation for NJMS:

As an Early Decision applicant, how do you intend to enhance your preparation for a successful transition into NJMS over the next year:
What are the word/character limits for these?
 
Did anyone get II yet?

Edit: Just received!
 
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Has anyone gotten rejected/deferred yet w/o II?

Trying to gauge when they are getting back to people

Submitted secondary 6/28
No response so far
 
Has anyone gotten rejected/deferred yet w/o II?

Trying to gauge when they are getting back to people

Submitted secondary 6/28
No response so far
Are you ED or RD? I think they're right now just getting back to applicants who submitted ED
 
Are you ED or RD? I think they're right now just getting back to applicants who submitted ED
ED…

Just has me overthinking bc if they are going to defer and reject me… why wouldn’t they do it asap so I can have to opportunity to apply to other schools earlier? Unless they want to put my application aside to go through it again because they are on the borderline of getting it through? Got my overthinking like crazy
 
Has anyone gotten rejected/deferred yet w/o II?

Trying to gauge when they are getting back to people

Submitted secondary 6/28
No response so far
Did you meet with Dr. Heinrich before submitting ED application?
 
Hopefully you'll hear back soon! Did you have your app reviewed by Dr. Heinrich before submitting it ED, or did you just contact him expressing interest?
Yes, I had a meeting with Dr. Velazquez and been in email contact with Dr. Heinrich before I applied
 
July 5. Do you know when the committee meets/when decisions will start rolling out? Need to keep my ringer on lol in case.
 
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Had my interview this week. Nothing so far.. I think the committee meets every Thursday.
Please let me know if you get a call.
 
Or know when the calls are supposed to start coming in?
Dean Heinrich said at the admission info session that acceptance calls start 7/11, which checks out with their adcom meeting days, but I think people get calls on any day. Hopefully those of us who interviewed already will hear back soon!
 
Interviewed last week, still havent heard anything, Im guessing at this point probably wont hear till Thursday/Friday
 
Interviewed last week, still havent heard anything, Im guessing at this point probably wont hear till Thursday/Friday
Also interviewed last week, was hoping to hear late last week/early this week because that’s what my interviewer said, but we’ll just have to keep waiting I guess. Either people who are accepted aren’t saying anything or no one has been accepted yet
 
I know a few who were accepted this cycle. Manifesting success for all of us
 
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I submitted my secondary two weeks ago and still nothing. Should I call/email?
 
Is anyone still waiting on IS secondary for RD applicants? Not totally sure how NJMS manages the ED/RD timeline
 
Anyone know a timeline for when to expect the RD app? This is the last secondary I'm waiting on
 
Interviewed early last week, still haven't heard back. I know of at least one other person who interviewed around the same time as me and got an acceptance...I'm wondering when I'll hear back.
 
+1 IS

Weird thing is, my AMCAS itself hasn't been verified yet. Submitted on 6/21.
 
Does anyone know how to approach the short response questions in the demographic section? Are they essay style or just explaining our background and connections to NJ? I’m not sure how long they want the responses to be either.
 
Does immediate family member include uncles/aunts? I searched up the definition and according to NJ State it does not. But I am not sure.
 
anyone who interviewed already have any advice? interviewing this week and am absolutely tweaking
 
"Please help us learn more about you and your lived experiences by sharing insight/background information that you feel is important or that has influenced you, your educational path/journey, access to opportunities, etc.:"

Is anyone answering this question sort of like a diversity essay? Or should I just leave it blank if I haven't had any serious life challenges?
 
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