Recent content by LizzyM

Agree with @LunaOri. I didn't really intend for you to answer me -- just throwing out areas of your life that might have been affected by the pandemic. But answering my questions does give you a good first draft. Good luck!

What were you doing in spring 2020? Did COVID interrupt your college career? delay your start of college by a semester or more? Require you to leave your college campus? Did you continue your studies online or take a break? Was there a change in your clinical experiences, community service...

Everything you submit for review, and the people you choose to write letters on your behalf, are within your power. The adcom and admissions staff need to whittle down the stack of applications to a very small proportion who will be interviewed (see MSAR for figures by school - I think those...

That is an interesting paper that I've not seen before. However, it was flawed, in my opinion, in that adcom members knew they were being assessed and they may have felt social pressure not to exhibit bias. The real proof of the pudding is in looking at a sample of real applications where some...

Your personal health information is private. You are not obligated to disclose it. You could have been treated for cancer or inflammatory bowel disease, or major depression. It is not my business if I am interviewing you. I might ask you how you coped with the set-back in your trajectory...

There are still some of us around who were there when the first patients were admitted. We were puzzled, curious, saddened, ashamed at the ignorance and fear shown by some hospital workers (nurses aides, housekeepers, food service) but I never saw any physician who was apathetic. (In many ways...

The school never opened an investigation. Therefore there was no ACTION by the INSTITUTION that would need to be reported by you. Had there been an investigation, you would have been afforded due process and been permitted to defend yourself against an accusation. The school can't claim it...

Yes. It is a zit. Don't mention the zit on your chin on a first date or make an excuse for it. No good can come of it. Do you really want to draw attention to the fact that you have poor attention to detail. Just put it out of your mind.

This is not a time for sarcasm @thefirerisen when someone is in anguish. 130 hours is not that much for research-- if you were going to lie, you would have made it at least 400 hours. So 70 vs 130 is not going to get me very excited. Just pretend you never reviewed the submitted application...

I think that it is reasonable to say that you needed to take incompletes in 4 courses due to serious health issues that arose during the term. You need not share your diagnosis or the treatment administered. You can say, "I recovered and was able to resume my studies in [month/year or "the...

You could read Forgive and Remember by Charles Bosk. It is a pretty short book, a sociologist's study of two teams of surgeons and their trainees. There are several types of errors that a surgical trainee can make and the most egregious is lying about something that was done (or not done)...

I would suggest avoiding the use of the same experience in multiple secondary essays for the same school. You are otherwise likely to be labeled unidimensional and that's not a good look.

Did this go any further than the conversation with the professor? Did you receive any confirmation that this was even reported? The rule is not that you must report all misconduct (otherwise, the number of people who would need to report being in a place where underage drinking was taking...

Let sleeping dogs lie. You aren't responsible for false negative results of a drug test. As mentioned, the likelihood of a correction years down the road is slim to none.

I would never say "no one" because there will always be basic scientist on the committee with a stick up their a55. That said, if you can state a purpose to the research such as "exploring barriers" "describing perceived locus of control" "identifying common themes within...." you might have...