I was really interested in stats and ECs after seeing your extraordinary sankey, but after reading through the detailed, thorough, and well-written post, I was no longer surprised as to how you got in. Every step of your process was well-prepared and insanely attentive to detail. Even now, this (very helpful) monolith of text that you’ve typed up for nothing in return is evidence of your good nature and dedication. It’s no wonder so many admission officers gave you a spot.
This is incredible thank you wow. For the other impactful experiences question, what if I genuinely haven't had any (ive just had a normal nice life which i am grateful for)? Is it fine to just not answer that at all or does that look bad ?
Where are you going to med school? Excellent point on using AI. It would seem intuitive that it would be an ethical violation. I believe schools are using software to detect AI essays I have heard admission officers say they are either using it or will use it. Congrats on your cycle.
I want to push back on the use of AI here. While I agree that using AI to make the essay for you isn't good, I think that this specific use of AI is a straw-man argument. LLMs I think are great to use to help "explore your narrative" without it being a caricature / without it being grotesque. LLMs are also great for talking through the zeroth draft (they even have a real-time voice-to-text feature now!). They're also good at editing with context (i.e. doing the same process as trying to get edits from a real person) with the right prompts.
I wouldn't rec just soullessly prompt an LLM to "be more concise" and just pasting your context, but "role-playing" with LLMs to talking out your thoughts is really useful, arguably moreso than other people (because they CAN provide more broad-stroke takeaways for you with your messy mumbo jumbo thought-dumps)
I'm fortunate enough to not need this to get into medical school, but I'm saving it for residency apps. Truly valuable, well thought out and well written.
Really great guide, but who the heck is talking about their desire to commit violence in their personal statement? Honestly probably better to let them do that so they get (appropriately) filtered out...
Goat
I’m an orthopedic chief resident and I’m saving this post
Trying to get like you! 🙏🏾
Thank you for this! Literally saving this post
I was really interested in stats and ECs after seeing your extraordinary sankey, but after reading through the detailed, thorough, and well-written post, I was no longer surprised as to how you got in. Every step of your process was well-prepared and insanely attentive to detail. Even now, this (very helpful) monolith of text that you’ve typed up for nothing in return is evidence of your good nature and dedication. It’s no wonder so many admission officers gave you a spot.
Holy shit
Wowowowowo please don’t delete this post
bless!! Thank you for sharing, and congrats on the amazing success!!!
This is incredible thank you wow. For the other impactful experiences question, what if I genuinely haven't had any (ive just had a normal nice life which i am grateful for)? Is it fine to just not answer that at all or does that look bad ?
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Thank you for all of your help 🥹❤️ I appreciate you deeply
GOAT 🐐
Where are you going to med school? Excellent point on using AI. It would seem intuitive that it would be an ethical violation. I believe schools are using software to detect AI essays I have heard admission officers say they are either using it or will use it. Congrats on your cycle.
Wow we really don’t deserve you
I want to push back on the use of AI here. While I agree that using AI to make the essay for you isn't good, I think that this specific use of AI is a straw-man argument. LLMs I think are great to use to help "explore your narrative" without it being a caricature / without it being grotesque. LLMs are also great for talking through the zeroth draft (they even have a real-time voice-to-text feature now!). They're also good at editing with context (i.e. doing the same process as trying to get edits from a real person) with the right prompts.
I wouldn't rec just soullessly prompt an LLM to "be more concise" and just pasting your context, but "role-playing" with LLMs to talking out your thoughts is really useful, arguably moreso than other people (because they CAN provide more broad-stroke takeaways for you with your messy mumbo jumbo thought-dumps)
I'm fortunate enough to not need this to get into medical school, but I'm saving it for residency apps. Truly valuable, well thought out and well written.
Thank you!!
I needed this thank you sm
Thank you for this! Saving it for the future 😭
Goat
Really great guide, but who the heck is talking about their desire to commit violence in their personal statement? Honestly probably better to let them do that so they get (appropriately) filtered out...