Ucr Has Your Education Been Continuous Since Graduation From High School

• #1

• Has your education been continuous since graduation from high school? (yes or no, explanation if no)
• Activities:
  • Describe the single MOST important event or non-academic activity in your life and explain why it's significant.
  • What activity or accomplishment are you MOST proud of?
  • What experiences or activities have prepared you to work with medically underserved communities?
  • Please list any Scholastic Activities that you have been involved with (including honors and awards)
  Personal:
  • Describe a major problem you have had to deal with at some time in your life. Include how you dealt with it and how it influenced your growth.
  • Is there any specific hardship to which you would like the committee to give special attention in evaluating your application? Please briefly explain below. (Include any geographic, language, economic, academic, physical, or mental factors.)
  • What kind of health care setting do you envision yourself working in?
  • How do you see yourself contributing to the mission of the UCR School of Medicine?
  All of the prompts are 250 word limit
  PERSONAL STATEMENT: Your personal statement from the AMCAS application will be used in our admissions process. You do not need to duplicate it here. At your option, you may use this space to provide any further information you may want us to consider in addition to the AMCAS personal statement. THIS IS NOT MANDATORY.

Activities:
Good luck to everyone applying!

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• #2

I'm really hoping for some love from this school I can't wait for the application to open! We got this!

• #4

Hi Groovin, thanks for doing this. Would you say you are provided adequate resources in terms of research, clinical opportunities, etc?

• #6

@Groovin if I never lived in the IE nor went to UCR, are my chances really slim? Ive lived in Los angeles county my whole life

I know a few who were from the OC or LA areas and were accepted. I think being aligned with their mission would be of higher importance.

• #7

Secondary received! I did not go to UCR for undergrad, but I grew up and currently live in the IE. I also volunteer at a hospital and work as an EMT in Riverside. I am, however, having problems accessing the secondary. I do not know if I am missing something, but I have no password to get in.

• #9

Thank you! I was just able to log in. Here are the prompts.
Education:

• Has your education been continuous since graduation from high school? ( yes or no, explanation if no)

Activities:

• Describe the single MOST important event or non-academic activity in your life and explain why it's significant.
• What activity or accomplishment are you MOST proud of?
• What experiences or activities have prepared you to work with medically underserved communities?
• Please list any Scholastic Activities that you have been involved with (including honors and awards)

Personal:

• Describe a major problem you have had to deal with at some time in your life. Include how you dealt with it and how it influenced your growth.
• Is there any specific hardship to which you would like the committee to give special attention in evaluating your application? Please briefly explain below. (Include any geographic, language, economic, academic, physical, or mental factors.)
• What kind of health care setting do you envision yourself working in?
• How do you see yourself contributing to the mission of the UCR School of Medicine?

All of the prompts are 250 word limit
PERSONAL STATEMENT: Your personal statement from the AMCAS application will be used in our admissions process. You do not need to duplicate it here. At your option, you may use this space to provide any further information you may want us to consider in addition to the AMCAS personal statement. THIS IS NOT MANDATORY.

• #12

CA resident. Time to hit the panic button if I haven't received a secondary?

Are you kidding? Chilllllllll. Just keep pre-writing all 55 of your hopeful secondaries

• #13

Thank you! I was just able to log in. Here are the prompts.

Thanks buddy!

CA resident. Time to hit the panic button if I haven't received a secondary?

No, just chill. Good luck pre-writing!

aaronrodgers

Quarterback, Super Bowl MVP, Future Hall of Famer

• #16

I.E. resident here hoping for a secondary...please!!!!

• #17

For this portion of the secondary:

Please provide a list of those activities that were most important to you in terms of developing your academic, social, and overall personal growth. Please list those activities as indicated below. Limit your responses to the space provided, dragging the most important activities to the top.

What activities is it asking for? Are we supposed to pick and choose from the ones listed above from our primary, or are we supposed to pick different ones?

I was wondering this as well. This whole secondary seems overly redundant.

• #18

Got rejected pre-secondary by Riverside after getting a secondary from Davis

aaronrodgers

Quarterback, Super Bowl MVP, Future Hall of Famer

• #19

Got rejected pre-secondary by Riverside after getting a secondary from Davis

by e-mail? sorry to hear

• #20

by e-mail? sorry to hear

Yup. Got an email at 10:02 PST stating, "Our Admissions Committee has concluded its evaluation of your application to the UCR School of Medicine. Unfortunately, we are unable to take further action on your application. With 90+ applications for each seat in our class, the committee had to make many difficult choices and turn away a large number of exceptionally strong candidates."

I'm honestly not surprised given I have a low LizzyM (63.5) but after I got a secondary from Davis, I guess I just assumed that I'd get one from Riverside and Irvine too.

• #21

Got a secondary yesterday. The UCs love their 30 day timelines

aaronrodgers

Quarterback, Super Bowl MVP, Future Hall of Famer

• #23

I got a secondary literally just now, a top choice school

Last edited: Aug 27, 2017

• #25

Secondary received!

Does this school screen for secondaries?

• #26

Last edited: Oct 27, 2017

• #27

just got a secondary! I'm not an IE resident and didn't go to UCR though (I'm from LA). does anyone know how their screening process works?

• #28

Same! Also not an IE resident, didn't go to UCR, LA resident who has been to Riverside exactly once in their life.

I'm guessing it's an MCAT/GPA screen + mysteriously holistic factors.

• #31

Secondary received today as well! No IE ties, from NorCal and attend school in SoCal. Heard this secondary is a beast though o-o

• #33

i noticed under "biographical" my state of residence is unselected but i cannot click it. anyone having same issue?

• #34

Best of luck to everyone on this.

Are we allowed to leave this question blank:
Is there any specific hardship to which you would like the committee to give special attention in evaluating your application? Please briefly explain below. (Include any geographic, language, economic, academic, physical, or mental factors.)

Or should I write a single sentence stating that I have no specific hardships I would like to highlight?

aaronrodgers

Quarterback, Super Bowl MVP, Future Hall of Famer

• #41

Look at their mission statement for a hint. Spoiler alert: Primary care in IE

Mmmm...this is a little bit of a stretch but I think we should talk about wanting to be a primary care physician in the inland empire.

• #44

Anybody else feel like they are consistently repeating information from their primary? I feel there is a lot of overlap in my answers of all these questions

• #45

Anybody else feel like they are consistently repeating information from their primary? I feel there is a lot of overlap in my answers of all these questions

Seems like UCs have a theme of wanting you to regurgitate your primary app.

• #47

Extracurricular Interests and Activities
Please provide a list of those activities that were most important to you in terms of developing your academic, social, and overall personal growth. Please list those activities as indicated below. Limit your responses to the space provided, dragging the most important activities to the top.

For the "Description" are we putting in just the activity name or an actual description of the activity?

I was wondering the same thing. Do we put all of our activities?

• #49

I'm curious as well, not sure if I should just repeat my primary apps......

what'd you all put for the Scholastic activities question?

• #50

For everyone that got secondaries, what are your stats?

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