Newest College Application Essays

Growing up in Tianjin, I was accustomed to clear skies and bright sunshine. However, in recent years, due to the increasing number of cars and industries in my hometown, the blue skies from my childhood have been replaced by gray, choking smog....

The woman sitting on the examination table half-heartedly feigns a cough. I find the eyes of the physician I am shadowing, who is standing behind the patient with a stethoscope to her back. After a brief moment, the physician steps back, returns...

I stood there holding my stethoscope, listening to a five year-old child’s back, nervously searching for any abnormality, trying to control my nerves and focus on my work. I shifted my stethoscope to another spot, the sweat on my back now beading...

Everyone has that unforgettable experience that they would like to capture and relive. For some, this may be a certain day; for others, it may be a special event. For me, though, it is a place that I hold near and dear that constantly reminds me...

"Question one: An apple collides with an orange and the orange rolls ten feet up an incline. What was the apple's initial velocity?"

I finished reading as my peers started calculating. Welcome to Gateway Science Workshop (GSW), a science enrichment...

My love affair with medicine started when I was seventeen. It was a time of personal discovery, and of great sorrow as well. While other teens my age were enjoying their junior and senior proms or falling hopelessly in love, I was with my...

I was only a child when I was due for my first surgery. In France at the time, I had developed a severe nasal congestion that would not relent despite various medical treatments. My mother took me to the doctors once more, and it was then that...

As her last bit of advice for me during my first day “running” an ambulatory surgery clinic, Vanessa said, “I like to say ‘Good luck’ to the patient before handing over a copy of the consent form and directing them to pre-admission testing.” I...

My unique course of study at Stanford will allow me to contribute to the learning environment at Vanderbilt. In the "Human Genome and Disease" course, Nobel Laureate Paul Berg gave a guest lecture on epigenetic regulation. Afterwards, I spoke to...

Ron is an elderly stroke victim who lives alone in a subsidized apartment in downtown Palo Alto. I assisted Ron with daily tasks such as cleaning the apartment, doing laundry, and going to the store. One day, I took Ron to Longs Drugs to buy food...

The Jesuit tradition at Creighton is one of my reasons for applying. My study of literature at a Jesuit high school cultivated my ability to interpret the meaning behind the experience of illness and nurtured my Catholic faith as a young man....

The bicultural conflict that I faced growing up as a child of first generation Vietnamese immigrants restricted my early social development but eventually allowed me to forge a new conception of my identity. When I began to speak English at the...

I hope to continue my commitment to helping uninsured and underserved patients. For over three years, I have been volunteering as a patient advocate and Vietnamese medical interpreter at the Pacific Free Clinic, a clinic that provides free primary...

As a visionary, I create challenging goals for myself and give them top priority. I have very specific goals I wish to accomplish in medical school before earning the privilege of become a doctor. I plan to evaluate my success on not only the...

When I began my college career, in August of 2000, I was amazed at the number of freshmen who, like me, wanted to major in Pre-Medicine. More than half of the freshman class, it seemed, would become doctors some day. However, as time marched on,...

I hated the doctor's office. Most kids put a heating pad on their forehead so they could fake illness and stay home from school. When I'd have a fever, I'd use a damp cloth to cool myself down so I could go. I knew it shouldn't be that way. I...

I have been lucky enough to travel extensively as I've grown up. The money I have saved as a result of performing magic professionally for the last thirteen years, not to mention the traveling which was a result of the performing itself, has given...

It is possible that an aspiring physician gets so caught up in rankings and lists during the application process that he forgets that he will actually be spending four years of his life in the city in which the school is located. A school may be...

Born in the snow, raised in the sand, I moved from Alberta, Canada to Sanibel Island, Florida at the age of two. Living on an island for most my life shaped me in many ways. My kindergarten classmates, became my high school buddies, and have...