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Growing up in a household where my grandmother’s diabetes went unmanaged due to language barriers, I witnessed firsthand how healthcare inequities shape outcomes long before a diagnosis is made.
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Ground this in a specific moment — what did you see, and when did you decide medicine was the answer?

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How should I frame my research gap year?
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Lead with what you *learned*, not what you did. Three beats: the question that pulled you in, the skill you built, and how it sharpened your clinical interest.
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“Tell me about a time you faced an ethical dilemma in a clinical setting.”

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Todr.chen@harvard.edu
SubjectUndergrad research — CRISPR gene therapy lab
Dear Dr. Chen, I’m a sophomore at UNC drawn to your work on in vivo gene editing…
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