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Every year, I spend several weeks in Switzerland with a bunch of undergraduate students. Besides the stunning beauty of the region, what often deeply impresses them is the country’s train…

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For years, I have advised undergrads on how to strengthen their applications to healthcare-related graduate schools—principally, medical schools. I tell them that due to the volume of applications received by programs, most of the materials within incoming applications meld into an amorphous mass of similar grades, test scores, community service activities, research activities, leadership efforts, and healthcare experiences. Unless one is a Navy SEAL in their summers, or a first cellist in the New York Philharmonic, it’s hard to make one’s application stand out or even just differentiate it from the rest. They all pretty much look the same. Thus, despite all the hours of diligence in and commitment to their building of a hopefully impressive identity, one’s individual personality blends in with the rest. That is, until we get to the obligatory personal statement and supplemental essay questions.