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The guidance explains how applicants craft clear, comprehensive, self-reflective accounts of life and circumstances leading to healthcare pursuits, distinguishing required internal essays for linkage versus general applicants. It details internal essay purpose, writing expectations, formatting and pagination requirements, and the uploading checklist, including headshot, résumé, drafts for personal statements, and work & activities entries. 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The statements you will write fall into two categories:  \n(1) Essays for internal use by the Columbia GS Premedical Committee; and  \n(2) Drafts of your personal statement, work & activities entries, and select secondary application responses, revised versions of which you will use in your common and secondary applications.  \nFor General Applicants, there are five mandatory essays, while for linkage applicants there are six. All applicants can write a supplemental essay if they choose to; in practice, very few of these optional essays are submitted. Ideally, the contents of the essays should complement the contents of the personal statement, the work & activities entries of the common application, and secondary responses, rather than replicate them.  \nThe five or six essays are for internal use. They won’t be sent to medical schools. We are not grading the essays (assuming you have made a good faith effort to write them) . Rather, they are a source of information for the purpose of writing the committee letter. Furthermore, writing these essays will compel you to revisit your past, ponder your most important experiences, and explicate your choicesand decisions. All of this is crucial preparation for the tasks of writing your personal statement, work & activities entries, and secondary applications, and eventually preparing for interviews. We recommend that you write all the essays before you write your personal statement.  \nWe are clearly asking you for a great deal of information about some of your most profound experiences, especially those that may have influenced your decision to pursue a career in healthcare. More than that, we are asking you to think deeply about those experiences. For some students, the work of pondering sensitive experiences may stir difficult or upsetting memories. We therefore wish to remind you of campus resources that may be able to help you process your feelings. These include:  \n●  Gender-Based Misconduct Office  \n● Disability Services  \n●  Sexual Violence Response  \n●  Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)  \nWe also wish to remind you that all University faculty members, staff members, and administrators, with the exception of those working in a confidential capacity (e.g., counselors, sexual violence response advocates, medical providers, and clergy) who learn of suspected instances of discrimination, harassment or gender-based misconduct, directly or indirectly, have a duty to refer the information immediately to the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action  \n([http://eoaa.columbia.edu/contacts](http://eoaa.columbia.edu/contacts)) or the Gender-Based Misconduct Office  \n([studentconduct.columbia.edu/gbm.html](studentconduct.columbia.edu/gbm.html)). Such reports may result in outreach from the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action to ensure that you have access to pertinent forms of support, information, and guidance.  \nUploading Documents  \nStudents are required to upload the following to their internal applications:  \n● a photo (headshot)  \n● résumé  \n● the essays described below under I  \n● a first draft of your personal statement and a set of “work & activities” entries (discussed below under II)  \nPlease consult the timeline for the date by which these and any other materials are due.  \nI. Internal Essays  \nESSAY INSTRUCTIONS  \nThe answers to the following questions will enable the Committee to get a better understanding of who you are and why you are applying to a health professional school. 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