secondary application

Think your photography skills aren't important? Think again! Many medical schools include an “optional” essay in their secondary applications. Obviously, this “optional” essay is not required. The essay prompt sometimes emphasizes this point. Often, it will include the stipulation that you...

Hello all, I recently have been inundated with secondary applications and I have quick question. I have come across various essays that ask me to explain a challenging experience and how I overcame it. I have went through an illness during my sophomore year of undergrad that hurt my grades...

Revise, revise, revise! As you start to work on your secondaries, one of the things that will become clearer and clearer is that you’re working within some VERY tight character limits! How can you build on the character-count-wizardry you got going during your primary app? We have some tips...

Hey everyone, So I'm currently registered to take my MCAT on July 22nd, but I can barely score anything above a 500 on my practice tests. My advisor told me I should push back my test to August 20th so I have time to improve my score, and still apply this year,but I also don't want to apply so...

Received a secondary app from WashU; one of the questions asked me to describe a time when I failed or was unsuccessful. My two initial ideas were either to write about the extensive difficulties I had in lab trying to get my experiment off the ground, or to write about an experience I had in...

I pretty much have only seen people talking about getting passport-type photos... But I am planning on just uploading a selfie of me at work in which I am smiling. Looks friendly and recognizable. Also, 330 kb. Any reason not to do it? There is nothing professional about it, and even quality...