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Hi SDNers,
First and foremost, best of luck to everyone who is applying this cycle! 🙂
One secondary question that I'm dreading is, "Have you previously applied to our school? If so, please detail what has changed since you last applied."
Aside from re-taking the MCAT (I don't have my score back yet... but I have a feeling that I tanked the PS section... again), I don't have anything 'new' to discuss. Since graduating with my masters last year (which was on last year's app), I've continued putting in thousands of hours volunteering, publishing research papers, completing triathlons for charity, etc. These are all wonderful commitments, but none of them are 'different'.
Once change is that a few weeks ago, I moved to a new state to care for my terminally ill grandpa (he was a former physician and has been one of my greatest supporters), so I've recently become unemployed. I plan on finding a job and shadowing an osteopathic physician ASAP, but I doubt that I'll have that set up in time to write about it in my secondaries.
I'm thinking of just writing how I've continued to demonstrate my commitment to medicine through research, volunteering, etc. but I worry that it will be too 'boring'. Has anyone else ever faced this predicament? What would you discuss?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙂
First and foremost, best of luck to everyone who is applying this cycle! 🙂
One secondary question that I'm dreading is, "Have you previously applied to our school? If so, please detail what has changed since you last applied."
Aside from re-taking the MCAT (I don't have my score back yet... but I have a feeling that I tanked the PS section... again), I don't have anything 'new' to discuss. Since graduating with my masters last year (which was on last year's app), I've continued putting in thousands of hours volunteering, publishing research papers, completing triathlons for charity, etc. These are all wonderful commitments, but none of them are 'different'.
Once change is that a few weeks ago, I moved to a new state to care for my terminally ill grandpa (he was a former physician and has been one of my greatest supporters), so I've recently become unemployed. I plan on finding a job and shadowing an osteopathic physician ASAP, but I doubt that I'll have that set up in time to write about it in my secondaries.
I'm thinking of just writing how I've continued to demonstrate my commitment to medicine through research, volunteering, etc. but I worry that it will be too 'boring'. Has anyone else ever faced this predicament? What would you discuss?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙂