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    • updated: 1/ 2010
    Next update: 20010
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    Alex Shteynshlyuger

    Typical Questions from Secondary Applications for Various Medical Schools.

     

    1. Describe yourself?
    2. What areas of medicine are you interested in? Explain your reasons.
    3. Describe experiences that you consider to be important in your career as a physician
    4. If you have been out of school, describe your activities during that period.
    5. Have you applied to us or other medical schools in the US previously. Give dates.
    6. List your extracurricular activities
    7. To continue processing of your application to our medical school please remit a check for $85. (You must provide your own envelope!).
    8. If you have any comments you want to bring to the attention of our Admissions Committe, write them here.
    9. Explain why you chose to apply to our MFD (XYZ, ZYX) medical school.
    10. Describe any research experiences you have had. Commend on them.
    11. Where do you see yourself in 10, 20, 50 years.
    12. What are your long-term goals in becoming a physician.
    13. When you think of apples, what color are the oranges?
    14. What people and/or experiences have been most influential in your life.
    15. List courses you have taken to fulfill prerequisites for admission at our MFD Medical School
    16. Describe (an) experience(s) or projects in which you take particular pride.
    17. Describe a difficult situation or an obstacle that you encountered in your life and tell us how you dealt with it.
    18. What sparked your interest in medicine?
    19. Describe why you decided to become a physician.
    20. Describe any academic difficulties you might have had and how you dealt with them.
    21. Of all extracurricular activities you have done while in college which is most important to you? Why?
    22. What life experiences or relationships contributed to your development as an individual? Corroborate with specific examples that show how your personal qualities make you fit to become an MD.
    23. Describe any honors or awards you have received.
    24. If you were to get acceptances to more than one medical school, how would you choose where to go? (Dreaming is good!)


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