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Hello!
I am looking to pre-write some of my secondaries, and I saw from previous years that a lot of schools include the "describe a challenge/how you overcame that challenge" question.
My entire personal statement is about overcoming health and sports related challenges and the lessons I learned from these challenges. Furthermore, I discuss another academic challenge in my "most meaningful experience" portion of my app. I clearly do not want to repeat any of these topics during my secondaries. I was just wondering if writing about how when I took my MCAT the first time, I scored in the "40-something" percentile and thought that a career in medicine was not going to happen, despite putting a lot of effort into studying for this exam. Then through addressing my weaknesses, and learning new study methods, I raised my scored to the "86th" percentile. This the lessons learned blah blah blah.
Just wanted to see if this was a decent "challenge" to mention since the many other aspects of my application describe overcoming a challenge.
Thanks!
I am looking to pre-write some of my secondaries, and I saw from previous years that a lot of schools include the "describe a challenge/how you overcame that challenge" question.
My entire personal statement is about overcoming health and sports related challenges and the lessons I learned from these challenges. Furthermore, I discuss another academic challenge in my "most meaningful experience" portion of my app. I clearly do not want to repeat any of these topics during my secondaries. I was just wondering if writing about how when I took my MCAT the first time, I scored in the "40-something" percentile and thought that a career in medicine was not going to happen, despite putting a lot of effort into studying for this exam. Then through addressing my weaknesses, and learning new study methods, I raised my scored to the "86th" percentile. This the lessons learned blah blah blah.
Just wanted to see if this was a decent "challenge" to mention since the many other aspects of my application describe overcoming a challenge.
Thanks!
