UCLA Secondary Question

[docinthemaking]

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Hey all. Just joined the SDN network but I think I will quickly become addicted 🙂


Anyways, I know it's a bit late in the game, but I'm working on the UCLA secondary right now. I feel like a lot of the prompts are pushing me to summarize what I already have in my AMCAS app. Did other people have this same problem? Should I try to talk about different aspects of each activity? It's kind of hard to redescribe each activity and then put down a different spin given the character constraints. Would it be OK to say something to the effect of "refer to my AMCAS" or should I just resummarize some points. I dunno, maybe the adcoms just want to make sure that what we have on the secondary is the same as what we listed on the secondary. What did you guys do?

 

[ambaduchi]

it's not that late in the game...i just finished my ucla secondary myself. (sdn peeps on average tend to be waaaay ahead of the crowd, so i keep telling myself.) anyways, i approached the ucla questions by trying to give more color than i did in the secondary by saying more about what the activity meant to me personally, rather than the more "resume-ish" description that i had in my amcas description. also, their questions are pretty specific -- leadership, most important etc. explain about that particular aspect of the activity, ie, what you did as a leader, why it was most important, etc.

g'luck!

 

[docinthemaking]

Just wondering if anyone left any of the essay questions blank...

 

[derf]

i'm sure many applicants didn't fill out the hardship and obstacle questions, but I would definitely recommend answering all the others, especially since they're limited to 800 characters.