Secondaries - Any additional information question

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JShen

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Hi All,
As I finish completing my secondaries, I was wondering if people feel compelled to answer the sometimes optional, sometimes mandatory question along the lines of "what additional information not included elsewhere in your application would you like to share?" I know this is a personal question in the sense that each individual is unique, but what kind of things are you putting in your response to the question? I feel like the AMCAS was pretty extensive and covered the majority of what I want medical schools to know, and I don't want to just give them a "filler" response, but I also don't want to lose the opportunity to highlight my strengths and enhance my application.
Thanks
 
If there's no "why our school" question I try to emphasize what I can bring to the school and why I want to go there...or in other cases I might put a special quality or hobby that I wasn't able to extensively cover in my AMCAS to bring a more humanistic element to my application. Hope that helps.
 
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