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I'm sorry that this has been posted by others for the millionth time, but I was wondering if my secondary prompt ideas passed the SDN smell test. Thank you to anyone and everyone who looks at this.
Diversity essay – helping students across the age spectrum, from elementary to college. I worked with deaf/hard of hearing elementary students, with low-income middle and high school students, and was a university TA for multiple years. Talk about contributing my perspective on the needs of children, the relationship between health and educational obstacles (learning disabilities, physical disabilities, physical health), and how this sparked my interest in pediatrics.
Adversity/greatest challenge essay – mom was hospitalized and bed-ridden with cancer when I was a teenager, I had to live with just me and my sister for about a year. Dad basically went to work, went to the hospital, and only came back to shower and get a change of clothes. I could go weeks and see him once. Talk about how it forced me to mature faster and cope with uncertainty, independence, and sudden upheaval (the cancer was mentioned in my personal statement, but only briefly).
If it makes a difference, I'm an MD/PhD applicant 1.5 gen ORM (parents immigrated, but one parent immigrated as a child). My household was traditional and didn't speak much English; my older sister had ESL classes until she was 10, and I was tutored to learn English until I started elementary even though we were both born in America.
Diversity essay – helping students across the age spectrum, from elementary to college. I worked with deaf/hard of hearing elementary students, with low-income middle and high school students, and was a university TA for multiple years. Talk about contributing my perspective on the needs of children, the relationship between health and educational obstacles (learning disabilities, physical disabilities, physical health), and how this sparked my interest in pediatrics.
Adversity/greatest challenge essay – mom was hospitalized and bed-ridden with cancer when I was a teenager, I had to live with just me and my sister for about a year. Dad basically went to work, went to the hospital, and only came back to shower and get a change of clothes. I could go weeks and see him once. Talk about how it forced me to mature faster and cope with uncertainty, independence, and sudden upheaval (the cancer was mentioned in my personal statement, but only briefly).
If it makes a difference, I'm an MD/PhD applicant 1.5 gen ORM (parents immigrated, but one parent immigrated as a child). My household was traditional and didn't speak much English; my older sister had ESL classes until she was 10, and I was tutored to learn English until I started elementary even though we were both born in America.
