Medical School Secondary Essays: How to Persuade AdComs to Admit You
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today, we're going to discuss strategies to craft outstanding medical school secondary essays.
One of the most stressful parts of the med school application process is writing secondary essays. It takes so much work to get out your AMCAS primary and push through the Personal Statement, only to be flooded with secondaries.
We’ll discuss strategies to write persuasive medical school secondary essays so you can impress admissions officers and get accepted to your dream school.
Most of the schools you apply to will send you secondaries, so you might have to write as many as 20 or 30 secondaries. I recommend applying to 20-25 schools in your first round in June or so, max, so you can handle all these essays. You should then plan to devote much of July and August to fielding and completing secondaries.
It’s also super important to stay on top of these secondaries because you want to return them to the school within about 2 weeks of receiving them.
With all that in mind, med school applicants often want to know: How can I possibly manage all these secondaries?
I’m going to talk today about a few strategies for tackling med school secondaries.
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TIMESTAMPS:
[00:00] - Introduction
[01:13] - Understand Question Types
[01:51] - Pre-write Modules
[02:04] - The Diversity Question
[03:32] - The Adversity Question
[04:21] - The "Why Us" Question
[05:48] - Three "R's" - Reuse, Recycle, but Always Read the Questions
[07:43] - The Specialty Question
[11:06] - The Optional Question
[11:15] - Final Thoughts on Avoiding Secondary Burnout
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Hey - thanks for this video, very helpful. I was actually doing some brainstorming about the 'adversity' question before watching this, and was a little stumped because I was having some trouble thinking of an all-encompassing lifelong problem... its much easier for me to frame the essay around more trivial, short-term hardships (although of course they were distinct sources of difficulty at the time).
Anyways, there's a lot of writing in my future as I'm planning on applying to a lot of schools, but we can only do our best, right? I'll be sure to give it as good a shot as I can. Thanks again for all your videos, and I'll be sure to use them when interview season rolls around as well.
Our pleasure! So glad you're finding these resources valuable.
In terms of the gap year question, how should you go about discussing your time off when your plans have been cancelled due to COVID-19?
I'd advise you to discuss what you have done in the time prior to the pandemic and if space permits, what you were planning to do with the remainder of the time off!
I have been working in my families Optometric practice since I was 15. I now preform pretesting( blood pressures, visual acuity, intraocular pressures, keratometry and refraction). I had other clinical opportunities but they were cancelled due to the pandemic. Will my seven years optical experience be sufficient to apply this cycle? Or, should I take a gap year and try to get a different type of clinical experience?
I think that's wonderful clinical experience. Many medical schools may wonder, though, if you have clinical experience in a context outside of Optometry. Having clinical experience within the context of a medical clinic or a hospital would certainly quell those concerns that many AdComs may have.
3:20 Can you expand on how being a programmer helps contribute to a medical school's diversity?
Being able to program can add an entirely new dimension to many scholarly projects taking place in medical schools!
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What's been the biggest challenge for you as your write your secondary essays? Let us know in the Comments!
Still finishing secondaries..
You got this, Vishal!
@@Shemmassian Trying my best! Thank you! Great content. Next level
How'd it go? Did you get into any schools?
Hello sir i am in class 12 I am from India my 12 th score is 65% in boards can u please guide me how to get into 🇺usa medical school with these low marks after 12 th standard what is the process please guide me.
Hi! Please look through the following guide:
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If you want to go to a US medical school because you want to practice there, your options are to A) go to university here and pay a lot, and then apply to medical school after graduating or B) go do your MBBS in india and then come here for residency. Don't worry about reputation, all Indian FMGs outside of the very top grads are pretty much on equal footing when it comes to residency applications. What matters is your English skills, honds-on US clinical experiences, and step 2 score.
@@mujtabaalam5907 thank you
Diversity
"I went fishing in Canads once"
Adversity
"Writting Med School essays"
Why Us
"I'm desperate"