Hello, <br /><br />I am applying to Virginia Tech Medical School (VTCSOM), but this is not an admissions essay. The school wants me to answer the following prompt: <br /><br />"<b>The mission of VTCSOM is, in part, to educate physician thought leaders through inquiry, research, and discovery. Thought leaders are individuals who are recognized for innovative ideas and who demonstrate leadership in sharing, promoting, and implementing those ideas.</b><br /><br /><b>A. VTCSOM's curriculum fosters a culture of compassion through its community service learning initiatives. Through their inter-professional learning group projects (IPL), students demonstrate leadership and innovation while making a positive difference in the community. Describe an event or a time when your personal contribution was instrumental to the success of a team or made a positive impact on someone else's life."<br /><br /><br /></b>I have attached a document which contains my response to the aforementioned prompt. That being said, there are a few things I need addressed you, the editor. <br /><br />1) I am 150 words over the word limit on this document (600 word limit). If you could please help me decrease the word count, while retaining the meaning of the content, that would be great. If you can eliminate redundancy, restructure complex sentences into more simple ones, etc... to make the document more concise, that would be ideal. I especially think the first 2-3 paragraphs can be made more concise, since these paragraphs essentially "set-up" the main idea of the document and thus dont necessarily need to be using up too much of the word count. Overall, I would like you to remove anything that you think does not directly ANSWER the above prompt. Also, I would like you to remove anything that you think does not add anything productive to the response and is just "fluff". <br /><br />2) I want to ensure my grammar and word choice is perfect. <br /><br />Thank you very much!