Discover why admissions officers from the nation's top medical schools selected these essays of worthy applicants<br><br>With only a limited number of spaces available every year to the thousands of<br>qualified applicants to the nation's top medical schools, a serious candidate must find<br>a way to set himself or herself apart from the crowd. The essay is your one chance to<br>highlight the personal qualities and achievements that the application and MCAT<br>scores do not reveal.<br><b><br>As Essays That Worked for Medical Schools </b>demonstrates, there is no such thing as<br>the perfect submission. The winning essays cover a wide range of interesting topics. If there is any similarity, it is that they are written from the heart. One applicant writes about his work as a counselor for mentally ill adults and teens. Another tells about the life-changing experience of delivering much needed supplies to a leprosy village in West Africa. And a third applicant talks about time spent volunteering at a local senior center. From the thousands submitted each year, the essays in this book were considered some of the best by admissions officers at the nation's top medical schools.<br><br>With creativity and effort, you can turn almost any topic into an effective, successful essay for your medical school application!<b><br></b>