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Medical School Admission Essay

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If someone told me just five years ago when I was in high school that I would be going to one of the best colleges in New Jersey and taking classes in an effort to go to medical school, I would've said they were crazy. In fact, I'm not, nor have I ever been the student with a 4.0 GPA or near perfect standardized test scores. As a future candidate to medical school, I feel that this Research Associates Program will aid in my journey to becoming a doctor, by virtue of working with other people, interacting with patients, gathering data, and understanding how to accurately obtain valuable data. This program will only help me in achieving my goal of going to medical school. As an applicant to medical school, I believe that it is important to be able to articulate why you want to become a doctor. I have not gained enough first hand experience in the medical field up to this point, and that is how I came to apply to this program. Through a friend's recommendation, I began to research this program to see if it was right for me. The more I learned about it, the better I could envision myself as an RA at Hackensack. I want to interact with patients, make them feel better as being in the hospital can be a very rough …show more content…

Through family, I met students who were not able to get into medical school- despite having stellar grades. These were students who would work tirelessly and their hard work did not pay off for circumstances beyond their control. Hearing this, I knew I had no excuse. I knew that if I ever slacked off, there were countless students on the other side of the globe who were not as fortunate as me, but were still working harder than me. If you'd give me the honor of becoming a part of the team, you would get someone who will work harder than anyone else, is eager to come research at the hospital every day, and will use the experiences he'll learn in the future and pass it on to

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