pleasehelpme12
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Hi all,
Working on my OHSU secondary right now and I am a little stumped on how/if to answer one of these questions, I would love some insight/feedback. In OHSU's secondary application, there is a subsection where you are given the ability to rate the different types of adversity you faced (economic, cultural, educational, etc) on a scale. You are then given 4000 characters to elaborate on how these factors affected you and limited your opportunities. This is another part of the secondary portal, not grouped with the standard essays, which wasn't posted to the OHSU 24-25 thread itself.
The thing is, I grew up poor, and this really did hamper my high school performance, which did bleed into my freshman year, but other than that I wouldn't say it really limited my opportunities at all. My family broke into the middle class around the time I was 20 or so, and have been doing well since. While the experience of poverty has greatly informed how I wish to practice medicine in the future, that is already the focal point of my whole application and OHSU's 8 other secondary essays.
I don't feel like I have anything meaningful to say that is not highly redundant. Am I being a neurotic premed, or is it lazy to just say that I feel my primary application and other secondary essays(literally all of which touch on this exact topic) accurately represent the way these circumstances have impacted me and that I have nothing else to add?
Working on my OHSU secondary right now and I am a little stumped on how/if to answer one of these questions, I would love some insight/feedback. In OHSU's secondary application, there is a subsection where you are given the ability to rate the different types of adversity you faced (economic, cultural, educational, etc) on a scale. You are then given 4000 characters to elaborate on how these factors affected you and limited your opportunities. This is another part of the secondary portal, not grouped with the standard essays, which wasn't posted to the OHSU 24-25 thread itself.
The thing is, I grew up poor, and this really did hamper my high school performance, which did bleed into my freshman year, but other than that I wouldn't say it really limited my opportunities at all. My family broke into the middle class around the time I was 20 or so, and have been doing well since. While the experience of poverty has greatly informed how I wish to practice medicine in the future, that is already the focal point of my whole application and OHSU's 8 other secondary essays.
I don't feel like I have anything meaningful to say that is not highly redundant. Am I being a neurotic premed, or is it lazy to just say that I feel my primary application and other secondary essays(literally all of which touch on this exact topic) accurately represent the way these circumstances have impacted me and that I have nothing else to add?
