How to Write the Leadership Essay | Medical School Secondary Essay Prompts

Many med schools will send secondary essay prompts asking you to describe what kind of a leader you are.
But what if you feel like you don’t have enough leadership experience? What if you’ve never been president of a club or started a nonprofit? Or what if, despite holding a leadership position, you haven’t quite achieved the goals you set out to accomplish?
In this video, we’ll go over some common misconceptions about medical school secondary essays that fall under the Leadership Essay category.
Then, we’ll discuss some prewriting prompts to help you reflect on your leadership experiences even before you receive your secondary essay prompts.
And finally, we’ll take a boring, unremarkable Leadership Essay and transform it into an essay that will help convince adcoms that you have what it takes to become a future leader in medicine.
This video is part of our six-video series designed to prepare you for six of the most common med school secondary essay prompts: The Diversity Essay, The Adversity Essay, The Why Us Essay, The Gap Year Essay, The Leadership Essay, and the Additional Information Essay.
📚 Access sample secondary essays responding to every prompt required by every MD and DO program in the US and Canada. www.shemmassianconsulting.com...
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - About the Leadership Essay
01:18 - How to approach the Leadership Essay
02:53 - Leadership Essay Prompt Examples
06:40 - Prewriting Prompts
08:23 - Leadership Essay - First Draft
10:06 - Leadership Essay - Final Draft
11:57 - Final thoughts
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