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I am kind of struggling on what to put in the optional essay? If a school doesn't have an adversity essay then I throw that in there, but if they do then I really don't have much else to say. I was extraordinarily thorough with my primary. The only things not in my primary are along the lines of adversity/diversity stuff. So if a school already has those, what do you put in there?
And is it appropriate to put an adversity/diversity essay in the "tell us anything else" section? Like, I understand the adversity, but when my 'diversity' essay is basically 'military taught me leadership, teamwork, and teaching' it feels kind of shallow or like I am just talking myself up?
Or would it be better to include something that is not anywhere else in my application but is not really relevant to medical school? Like talking about how I still spend time with family/what it is like raising a child while doing the Army/student thing? That isn’t the topic of my adversity statement, but I don’t really talk about what it is like so much as how I moved past it.
And is it appropriate to put an adversity/diversity essay in the "tell us anything else" section? Like, I understand the adversity, but when my 'diversity' essay is basically 'military taught me leadership, teamwork, and teaching' it feels kind of shallow or like I am just talking myself up?
Or would it be better to include something that is not anywhere else in my application but is not really relevant to medical school? Like talking about how I still spend time with family/what it is like raising a child while doing the Army/student thing? That isn’t the topic of my adversity statement, but I don’t really talk about what it is like so much as how I moved past it.
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