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Since we'll all be hit with this one (I assume) in our interviews I wonder if anyone has come up with any good or exceptionally bad answers to this question?
Bad answer: Because I haven't made up my mind about my career yet. I'd be doing an MD/PhD/JD program is they offered it.
Bad answer: Because I don't want to pay for medical school.
Bad answer: I'm applying for what program? Oh dear, I seem to have checked the wrong box on my AMCAS application.
Bad answer: I don't know... I figured I'd try it out and see if I liked it. If not, you're an MSTP and can't make me pay you back, right?
Good answer: Because I am extremely committed to becoming a physician scientist and look forward to receiving formal training in both medicine and research in order to have a long and productive career. I believe that taking research from the bench to the bedside and back again is the best way to accelerate the progress of modern medical research. Etc etc blah blah blah.
Funny story: At my revisit to Tufts I was one of three people. One of them decided right before dinner that she didn't want to do an MSTP program and just peaced out. Her parents came and picked her up and she just left. It was like the first day of summer camp or something. The program director was like... WTF? So please have your mind made up BEFORE you waste hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payer money. kthnx.
Bad answer: Because I haven't made up my mind about my career yet. I'd be doing an MD/PhD/JD program is they offered it.
Bad answer: Because I don't want to pay for medical school.
Bad answer: I'm applying for what program? Oh dear, I seem to have checked the wrong box on my AMCAS application.
Bad answer: I don't know... I figured I'd try it out and see if I liked it. If not, you're an MSTP and can't make me pay you back, right?
Good answer: Because I am extremely committed to becoming a physician scientist and look forward to receiving formal training in both medicine and research in order to have a long and productive career. I believe that taking research from the bench to the bedside and back again is the best way to accelerate the progress of modern medical research. Etc etc blah blah blah.
Funny story: At my revisit to Tufts I was one of three people. One of them decided right before dinner that she didn't want to do an MSTP program and just peaced out. Her parents came and picked her up and she just left. It was like the first day of summer camp or something. The program director was like... WTF? So please have your mind made up BEFORE you waste hundreds of dollars of tax payer money. kthnx.
Funny story: At my revisit to Tufts I was one of three people. One of them decided right before dinner that she didn't want to do an MSTP program and just peaced out. Her parents came and picked her up and she just left. It was like the first day of summer camp or something. The program director was like... WTF? So please have your mind made up BEFORE you waste hundreds of dollars of tax payer money. kthnx.
answers that i would actually believe:
1) because I don't feel like paying for med school
2) because I am incredibly narcissistic
3) because I really, really enjoy pain
4) to say a big F U to all those idiot high school teachers that used to give me C's for not bothering with homework or MLA format
5) because it's hard
6) because I don't have a clue what I really want to do with my life, but I kinda like being in school
7) because I like research but getting into grad school is too easy
8) because I like the idea of being in med school but don't feel like spending a zillion hours shadowing and doing "community service" or sucking up to pre-med committees
9) because I want to be like house, but i'm better at research than orgo
answers that i would actually believe:
1) because I don't feel like paying for med school
5) because it's hard
6) because I don't have a clue what I really want to do with my life, but I kinda like being in school
7) because I like research but getting into grad school is too easy
8) because I like the idea of being in med school but don't feel like spending a zillion hours shadowing and doing "community service" or sucking up to pre-med committees
I can't tell if you're joking about that being what you said in your essay or not. Just in case: if it is, I would SERIOUSLY rethink your choices.
answers that i would actually believe:
1) because I don't feel like paying for med school
2) because I am incredibly narcissistic
3) because I really, really enjoy pain
4) to say a big F U to all those idiot high school teachers that used to give me C's for not bothering with homework or MLA format
5) because it's hard
6) because I don't have a clue what I really want to do with my life, but I kinda like being in school
7) because I like research but getting into grad school is too easy
8) because I like the idea of being in med school but don't feel like spending a zillion hours shadowing and doing "community service" or sucking up to pre-med committees
9) because I want to be like house, but i'm better at research than orgo