<p>the question is describe a significant event and how it changed you/impacted you? i'd just like to know if you guys consider my topic unique enough to give me an edge in the admissions....i'm a URM with stellar grades, yet a not so stellar SAT score (1960), so i'm hoping that my essay will give me a good edge at top schools. ok here's my topic...</p>
<p>this summer, i volunteered/shadowed at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. it was a pretty routine day: i was shadowing in the hospital when all of a sudden, the hospital went into chaos. Al-Qaeda terrorists struck somewhere in the city and the hospital was preparing to admit the victims. a lot of patients came in, but i'm going to focus on one child who was admitted, unfortunately, the most injured one. he had two gunshots to his head and was in critical condition. however, the on-call neurosurgeon was nowhere to be found. he wasn't answering his pager calls, and since i knew who he was, i ran around the whole hospital looking for him. the whole emergency unit of the hospital was in chaos, especially the american/british nurses who know that something like this wud never happen in an american hospital. of course this whole time, i was scared as crap because the image of the blood and the gunshot bounds on the kid's head kept coming into my head. an hour later, wit the nurses frantically trying to do anything to help the child, the neurosurgeon finally came (he is on-call between two hospitals, so he was at the other hospital). they let me watch the surgery, and it was probably the most meaningful moment in my life, watching him save the kid's life, who had been crying. so basically the main point of my essay is gonna talk about this story and how it has really and sincerely given me motivation to pursue medicine as a career. i'll also tie it in to my community service with Operation Smile, an organization that travels to third-world countries to perform free reconstructive surgeries to children, and how i would love to travel back to saudi arabia one day when i get my MD and use my american-recieved education to volunteer there and help reorganize the emergency department for emergencies like the one i witnessed. and just stuff like that....</p>
<p>so do u guys think this is a unique essay topic that wud give me an edge and stick with the adcoms? also, if u can, how wud u suggest to show more of my personality in the essay? medicine-related activities is definitely my passion, but how cud i show more of my personality after telling this, in my opinon, truly heartwrenching and inspiring experience? </p>
<p>thanks in advance for ur reply </p>
<p>P.S.: some of u probably don't believe my story or that i went to saudi arabia. my dad lives there, and i've been going there for the past 5 years in the summer. i actually lived there for a big part of my life. terrorist strikes in saudi arabia is very real and common, and jsut because u dont hear them on NBC news doenst mean they dont exist</p>