Perfecting your elevator pitch will benefit you in many ways throughout your application journey and beyond. It will be useful when you visit schools and meet professors, it will serve as your response for your first interview question (typically, "tell me about yourself"), and you can use it in your search for clinical or research experiences.
Start brainstorming for this three-minute response using the following questions as prompts.
Start brainstorming for this three-minute response using the following questions as prompts.
- What was your path to wanting to study medicine?
- How did your undergrad experience prepare you for medical school?
- Do you know what specialty you'd like to study? Why?
- Do you want to take this opportunity to expand on any meaningful clinical or research experiences and how they've impacted you?
- What fun fact about you could you close on?
