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Hey everyone, this is my first post after reading this forum for a while.
One of my good friends who's a year older than me and in the middle of applying to med school too was discussing one of her essays with me. Specifically, Virginia Commonwealth's essay about something that gives insight into the applicant as a person, but may be on any topic at all. A few years ago she was struggling with an eating disorder while involved in a sport (this was before she and I really became friends) and has since overcome it extremely well it seems and now leads a very balanced life. But apparently it was a very significant battle/challenge in her life. She's planning on using this experience for the essay mentioned above, but I told her it might seem like a liability to med schools to accept her, knowing she has this skeleton in her closet. She seems to think that the overcoming adversity thing supersedes that and believes she should keep the essay she wrote about her troubles with food/sport.
What do you guys think? Am I wrong here? Is she? I'm not turning this into a "I want to be right, so there!" thing, I'm genuinely curious. I haven't even received any secondaries yet so I'm not sure what I'll write for that prompt (assuming I get a secondary....I hear VCU screens), but I feel like writing about something so personal might be a bad idea?
One of my good friends who's a year older than me and in the middle of applying to med school too was discussing one of her essays with me. Specifically, Virginia Commonwealth's essay about something that gives insight into the applicant as a person, but may be on any topic at all. A few years ago she was struggling with an eating disorder while involved in a sport (this was before she and I really became friends) and has since overcome it extremely well it seems and now leads a very balanced life. But apparently it was a very significant battle/challenge in her life. She's planning on using this experience for the essay mentioned above, but I told her it might seem like a liability to med schools to accept her, knowing she has this skeleton in her closet. She seems to think that the overcoming adversity thing supersedes that and believes she should keep the essay she wrote about her troubles with food/sport.
What do you guys think? Am I wrong here? Is she? I'm not turning this into a "I want to be right, so there!" thing, I'm genuinely curious. I haven't even received any secondaries yet so I'm not sure what I'll write for that prompt (assuming I get a secondary....I hear VCU screens), but I feel like writing about something so personal might be a bad idea?