San Juan Bautista School of Medicine Secondary Essay Prompts

The 2019-2020 prompts

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Collected from public applicant reports. Prompts occasionally change mid cycle, so confirm against your own secondary portal before you submit.

1. 01

   Why have you selected the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine for your medical education?

   600 characters
2. 02

   Describe yourself. How do your unique personal characteristics and background contribute to the school's educational mission of creating a diverse entering class?

   600 characters
3. 03

   Which points of your character would you like to highlight to the Admissions Committee?

   600 characters
4. 04

   Describe any circumstances indicative of some hardship, such as, but not limited to, academic or financial difficulties, personal or family illness, a medical condition, a death in the immediate family or educational disadvantage?

   600 characters
5. 05

   Describe a difficult situation you have had to overcome in your life or during your college academic experience. How do you feel this will prepare you for a career in medicine?

   600 characters
6. 06

   While there is great emphasis on the physician-patient relationship, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine also emphasizes the importance of training culturally and linguistical diverse generation of physicians to care for underserved communities. Describe how your experiences would contribute to this aspect of the mission of the school.

   600 characters

How to write these well

• Turn secondaries around within 7 to 14 days of receiving them. Schools read speed as interest, and slow essays land in a bigger pile.
• Pre-write the universal question types (diversity, challenge, why us) once, then adapt per school. Adapting is rewriting the school specific half, not swapping the name.
• Name real programs. A why us answer that cites a specific clinic, track, or community partnership reads ten times stronger than praise for reputation or location.
• Stay under the limit without padding to reach it. Readers are working through thousands of these; a tight answer is a kindness they remember.

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