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Don't pre write secondaries until your personal statement (#4) is done. Edited. Rewritten. Edited. Thrown away. Rewritten again. and Edited.
Focus efforts on the personal statement because it is the most important essay and is the backbone for the narrative of your application. All of your experiential descriptions and secondary essays should be branches of the themes you present in the PS.
Focus efforts on the personal statement because it is the most important essay and is the backbone for the narrative of your application. All of your experiential descriptions and secondary essays should be branches of the themes you present in the PS.
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Leadership essay.
5. Why our school? essay....
Start these after you finished the above. IMO, these were the toughest to write and took the most time because of the research that needs to be done on the school. Not all of the schools require this, but a good amount do so in some fashion. If you apply to 25+ schools, that's a lot of researching to do.
Hated these when I applied... Essentially a suck up essay that doesn't add to much to the app, but you don't want to slack on it. Why do you think I applied to your school!? Cuz most of us have that LizzyM range (excluding mission based schools). Your school is focused on developing primary care physicians? Sure I'll say that I'm very interested in it, but my app has 1000+ hours of research so.... I doubt you'll believe me anyway
Start these after you finished the above. IMO, these were the toughest to write and took the most time because of the research that needs to be done on the school. Not all of the schools require this, but a good amount do so in some fashion. If you apply to 25+ schools, that's a lot of researching to do.
Hated these when I applied... Essentially a suck up essay that doesn't add to much to the app, but you don't want to slack on it. Why do you think I applied to your school!? Cuz most of us have that LizzyM range (excluding mission based schools). Your school is focused on developing primary care physicians? Sure I'll say that I'm very interested in it, but my app has 1000+ hours of research so.... I doubt you'll believe me anyway
I think this is excessive, I wrote my personal statement once, edited it a little bit, and have don't just fine. Depends on how well you know what you want to write about
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Here is a link to a post by @Ismet with all the 2015-2016 secondaries (they often don't change year to year):
https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/2015-2016-secondaries-alphabetical-list.1133997/
Many schools ask similar questions, but adcoms are not stupid. They will be able to smell a "one size fits all" kind of essay. My advice would be to take the time to research the schools you're going to apply to and put some thought into the questions. For instance, you may have done multiple things in your gap year, but for X school you may want to talk more about an activity that particularly pertains to the mission of X school. Good luck!
https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/2015-2016-secondaries-alphabetical-list.1133997/
Many schools ask similar questions, but adcoms are not stupid. They will be able to smell a "one size fits all" kind of essay. My advice would be to take the time to research the schools you're going to apply to and put some thought into the questions. For instance, you may have done multiple things in your gap year, but for X school you may want to talk more about an activity that particularly pertains to the mission of X school. Good luck!
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"Why do you like this school" 😉
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Variation of #1 How have you displayed resilience?
5. Anything else you want to tell us, that's not in your app?
5. Anything else you want to tell us, that's not in your app?
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My PS has come up at 5 interviews so far. I recised it and rewrote it at least 10 times and have been a good writer for quite a few years.
On the other hand, the content of my secondaries has never come up in my interviews
On the other hand, the content of my secondaries has never come up in my interviews
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Long enough to answer the questions "Who am I"? and "Why Medicine?"
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