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Hello!
I had some questions for how to go about answering secondaries. Is it bad if I reuse activities I have mentioned in my activities list/personal statement in these secondary questions? I would go into more detail or include another situation/story but will it look bad?
For ones like this "Did you have a Pre-Health Advisor at your undergraduate institution? If so, please tell us about your experience.", if I didn't use Pre-health advising at all, can I answer this as NA?
Also for questions like "Is there anything you would like the Admissions Committee to know that is not reflected elsewhere in your application?", can I include hobbies in here? I feel like i mentioned everything I would like to mention and am not sure what more I could add. What are some examples of what people include?
Additionally for these questions: " Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person.", how personal do these have to be? i'm having trouble finding some difficult adversities that i've had to overcome. Or for questions like "Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare?", I am very grateful and haven't faced serious barriers before but should I leave it as N/A or like discussing how I have worked with communities facing these issues. I feel like that's a stretch though.
also for questions regarding research, if I didn't do a thesis or a capstone project, can I simply discuss the research I have done? in my activities section, I include more of a story of how I overcame a difficult experiment in my research project so I have an opportunity to discuss my actual research project in my secondaries. could i discuss it in these types of questions: " if you have participated in research or other scholarly project (capstone project, honors thesis, etc.), please reflect on the experience, including how you learned from it, what challenged you, and how it may have impacted you educationally and professionally"?
when asked questions including "What are two causes or activities you are most passionate about?", can we restate some of the activities in our activities list?
I had some questions for how to go about answering secondaries. Is it bad if I reuse activities I have mentioned in my activities list/personal statement in these secondary questions? I would go into more detail or include another situation/story but will it look bad?
For ones like this "Did you have a Pre-Health Advisor at your undergraduate institution? If so, please tell us about your experience.", if I didn't use Pre-health advising at all, can I answer this as NA?
Also for questions like "Is there anything you would like the Admissions Committee to know that is not reflected elsewhere in your application?", can I include hobbies in here? I feel like i mentioned everything I would like to mention and am not sure what more I could add. What are some examples of what people include?
Additionally for these questions: " Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person.", how personal do these have to be? i'm having trouble finding some difficult adversities that i've had to overcome. Or for questions like "Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare?", I am very grateful and haven't faced serious barriers before but should I leave it as N/A or like discussing how I have worked with communities facing these issues. I feel like that's a stretch though.
also for questions regarding research, if I didn't do a thesis or a capstone project, can I simply discuss the research I have done? in my activities section, I include more of a story of how I overcame a difficult experiment in my research project so I have an opportunity to discuss my actual research project in my secondaries. could i discuss it in these types of questions: " if you have participated in research or other scholarly project (capstone project, honors thesis, etc.), please reflect on the experience, including how you learned from it, what challenged you, and how it may have impacted you educationally and professionally"?
when asked questions including "What are two causes or activities you are most passionate about?", can we restate some of the activities in our activities list?
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