Secondary Questions
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Question 1
Greatest Challenge Essay: The admissions committee is interested in gaining more insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person. Examples may include a moral or ethical dilemma, a situation of personal adversity, or a hurdle in your life that you worked hard to overcome. Please include how you got through the experience and what you learned about yourself as a result.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 2
Research Essay: Please tell us about ONE research project to which you made a significant contribution. In your essay, describe your role on the project, the hypothesis of your research and whether you contributed to hypothesis generation, why the methods were selected to answer that hypothesis, your results, and interpretation of your results with respect to future findings. In addition, please briefly share your motivation for pursuing this research project and reflect on how this experience affected your future career goals.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 3
Personal Growth: Based on your current maturity and wisdom, reflect upon an experience from the past few years that you would handle differently today.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 4
Cultural Awareness: Many have been reckoning with the impact of systemic injustices on social environments and healthcare equity. Describe a personal experience that has deepened your cultural awareness and humility, and the impact of that learning on how you look at health and healthcare.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 5
Career Essay: What does your ideal career entail fifteen years after medical school graduation?
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 6
Gap Year(s) if applicable: If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please tell us why you made this decision and what you will be doing or have done during this gap.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 7
OPTIONAL: Additional Information Response: Is there any further information that you wish to share with the Admissions Committee that may not be captured in the rest of your application?
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 8
MD/PhD: Greatest Challenge Essay: The admissions committee is interested in gaining more insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 9
MD/PhD: Personal Growth: Based on your current maturity and wisdom, reflect upon an experience from the past few years that you would handle differently today.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 10
MD/PhD: Cultural Awareness: Many have been reckoning with the impact of systemic injustices on social environments and healthcare equity. Describe a personal experience that has deepened your cultural awareness and humility, and the impact of that learning on how you look at health and healthcare.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 11
MD/PhD: PhD Advisor: What do you look for in a PhD advisor, and who at CWRU would interest you?
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 12
MD/PhD: Area of Interest: What is your specific interest in the MSTP at CWRU?
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 13
MD/PhD: Gap Year(s) if applicable: If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please tell us why you made this decision and what you will be doing or have done during this gap time.
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
Question 14
MD/PhD: OPTIONAL: Additional Information Response: Is there any further information that you wish to share with the Admissions Committee that may not be captured in the rest of your application?
Reported cycle: 2024-2025. Length limit not supplied as a separate source field.
