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I sent these questions about the AMCAS in an email to my school's pre-med advisor about six weeks ago, but she hasn't replied yet. The poor woman has about three hundred detailed and personalized letters of recommendation to write singlehandedly so I don't blame her at all, and instead seek the collective wisdom of SDN:
I wrote a personal statement draft awhile ago. At my advisor's recommendation, it explicitly mentions my interest in research and desire to do an MDPhD program. However, I am getting the impression that all the MSTP programs will send me a secondary/supplemental application that has its own essay question about why I want an MDPhD. Wouldn't submitting my current essay to AMCAS be redundant, since I'll have to say basically the same thing on the secondary applications? Should I completely rewrite the AMCAS essay to focus on just the non-research aspect? Also, would anyone be willing to take a look at my personal statement once I'm done with it?
On a similar note, the Post Secondary Experiences section asks for our research/publication experiences, among other things. All the MSTP secondaries will also ask us to list all research experiences and publications. Should I redundantly list everything on both applications, or save some of the research stuff for the secondaries?
If I have a research experience that included presenting a poster, giving a talk at a conference, and ultimately being published, under what type should I classify it in the Post Secondary Experiences section?
Later this summer, after I submit the AMCAS, I'm going to continue doing research with the professor that supervised my senior thesis. If everything goes well and it leads to publications, is there any way I can inform and update
the schools that I'm applying to? I can't change the AMCAS once it's been submitted...
Thanks in advance!
I wrote a personal statement draft awhile ago. At my advisor's recommendation, it explicitly mentions my interest in research and desire to do an MDPhD program. However, I am getting the impression that all the MSTP programs will send me a secondary/supplemental application that has its own essay question about why I want an MDPhD. Wouldn't submitting my current essay to AMCAS be redundant, since I'll have to say basically the same thing on the secondary applications? Should I completely rewrite the AMCAS essay to focus on just the non-research aspect? Also, would anyone be willing to take a look at my personal statement once I'm done with it?
On a similar note, the Post Secondary Experiences section asks for our research/publication experiences, among other things. All the MSTP secondaries will also ask us to list all research experiences and publications. Should I redundantly list everything on both applications, or save some of the research stuff for the secondaries?
If I have a research experience that included presenting a poster, giving a talk at a conference, and ultimately being published, under what type should I classify it in the Post Secondary Experiences section?
Later this summer, after I submit the AMCAS, I'm going to continue doing research with the professor that supervised my senior thesis. If everything goes well and it leads to publications, is there any way I can inform and update
the schools that I'm applying to? I can't change the AMCAS once it's been submitted...
Thanks in advance!