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2025-2026 Mt. Sinai Secondary Prompts

1. What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it, and what did you learn from it? (250 words)
2. Describe a situation that you have thought to be unfair or unjust, whether towards yourself or towards others. How did you address this situation, if at all? (250 words)

And on another tab, there's the questions
1. If you are currently not a full time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in this academic year. (100 words)
2. If you are committed to a particular community or if there is an important aspect of your background not addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to do so here. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. (150 words)

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+1 OOS MD/PhD. These are the prompts as an MD/PhD applicant, not too sure how many are also the same for MD applicants.

1. If you are currently not a full time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in this academic year. (100 words)
2. If you are committed to a particular community or if there is an important aspect of your background not addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to do so here. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. (150 words)
3. What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it, and what did you learn from it? (250 words)
4. Describe a situation that you have thought to be unfair or unjust, whether towards yourself or towards others. How did you address this situation, if at all? (250 words)
5. Please tell us why you have chosen to apply to the MD-PhD Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. (250 words)
 
+1 OOS MD These are the prompts:

1. What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it, and what did you learn from it? (250 words)
2. Describe a situation that you have thought to be unfair or unjust, whether towards yourself or towards others. How did you address this situation, if at all? (250 words)

And on another tab, there's the questions
1. If you are currently not a full time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in this academic year. (100 words)
2. If you are committed to a particular community or if there is an important aspect of your background not addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to do so here. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. (150 words)

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For the gap year essay, how would you define academic year? Would it be this upcoming fall '25 to spring '26?
 
FuturePediatricNeurosurge said:
Nope. Guessing I should not use that.
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You should find feedback from a peer or a supervisor that was specific and actionable. Ideally, you would have examples of how you applied that feedback to your work.

The problem with the "creepy" line is that 1) fair or not, it raises questions about you and 2) it sounds like this was directly from the patient, so I don't see how it is actionable in a way that you could recover with the person in question and show improvement.
 
moltmannfanboi said:
You should find feedback from a peer or a supervisor that was specific and actionable. Ideally, you would have examples of how you applied that feedback to your work.

The problem with the "creepy" line is that 1) fair or not, it raises questions about you and 2) it sounds like this was directly from the patient, so I don't see how it is actionable in a way that you could recover with the person in question and show improvement.
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Thank you for the actionable advice
 
Turned this in and realized I chose not to answer the optional prompt bc I interpreted it as having a disadvantaged background, past adversity, etc. but i've been reading around and some people say optional doesn't really mean optional. am i cooked?
 
targetdreamart said:
Turned this in and realized I chose not to answer the optional prompt bc I interpreted it as having a disadvantaged background, past adversity, etc. but i've been reading around and some people say optional doesn't really mean optional. am i cooked?
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I have a family member who attends here. He didn't fill out this option and has said that it really is truly optional. If you had something to say great! Otherwise, Icahn answers are purposely kept short, they probably don't want someone to ramble, rather see someone who packed a punch elsewhere. But just my opinion!
 
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