Harvard Medical School

1. HST Only: Please focus on how your interests, experiences and aspirations have prepared you for HST.

1. If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity not addressed elsewhere in your application that may illuminate how you could contribute to Harvard Medical School, please share it here.

2. If you have already graduated, please briefly summarize your activities since graduation (maximum 4000 characters).

3. The interview season for the 2023-2024 cycle will be held virtually and is expected to run from mid-September through January 2024. Please indicate any significant restrictions (three weeks or more) on your availability for interviews during this period. If there are none, please leave this section blank.

4. If you have already graduated, please briefly summarize your activities since graduation.

5. The interview season for the 2022-2023 cycle will be held virtually and is expected to run from mid-September through January 2023. Please indicate any significant restrictions (three weeks or more) on your availability for interviews during this period. If there are none, please leave this section blank.

1. If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity that has not been addressed elsewhere in the application and may help illuminate how you could contribute to the medical school, we invite you to share it here. Examples might include significant challenges in accessing education, unusual socioeconomic factors, or other aspects of your personal or family background that could provide context for your prior academic achievements or further information about your motivation for a career in medicine and the perspectives you might bring to the medical school community. Many applicants may not need to answer this question.

2. The Committee on Admissions recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected applicants in many ways. If you would like to inform the Committee about how these events have impacted you and have not already addressed this elsewhere in your application, please use this space to do so. (This is an optional essay; the Committee on Admissions will not make any judgments based on your decision to provide a statement or not.)

3. If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity that has not been addressed elsewhere in the application and that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Many applicants may not need to answer this question. Examples might include significant challenges in accessing education, unusual socioeconomic factors, identification with a minority culture, or aspects related to religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Please briefly explain how these factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine.

4. (Optional) The Committee on Admissions recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected applicants in many ways. If you would like to share how these events have impacted you and have not already addressed this in your application, please use this space to do so. (This is an optional essay; the Committee on Admissions will not make any judgments based on your decision to provide a statement or not.)

1. On average, how many hours per week did you dedicate to employment during the academic year?