Preparing for Medical School

Hobbies: ______________________________________________________________________

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Special interests (not previously covered):____________________________________________

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Provide a TENTATIVE list of those schools to which the applicant plans to apply:

______________________

Is the applicant interested in a professional degree (DDS, MD, OD, DO, DPM, DVM) only?

(Check one.) Yes: _________ No: ________

Is the applicant interested in a combined MD/PhD degree? Yes: ________ No: ________

TYPE an essay (limited to two pages), in which the applicant considers the following topics, as

they personally relate:

1. How did your interest in the sciences begin and how did it develop?

2. What circumstances and considerations have motivated you to consider undertaking a career

in the health sciences?

3. From where does your knowledge of the health sciences and of health care delivery stem (is it

based on family exposure, work, reading, talking with practitioners, volunteer work, etc.)?

4. Why do you seek to enter the health professions? What do you hope to contribute? What do

you feel you have to offer? What do you hope to derive from working in this area?

5. What are your plans in the event that you are not accepted (aside from reapplication)?

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