<p>Hello,</p><p>I am applying to the University of Illinois School of Medicine, but this is not an admissions essay. The school wants me to answer the following prompt:</p><p><b>"<b>Describe a situation in which you were really stressed.  Tell us how you dealt with it.  Please detail your reaction(s), and how it affected you.  If this situation, or a similar one, were to happen again, how would you handle it?</b></b><b>"</b></p><p>I have attached a document which contains my response to the following prompt. That being said, there are a few things I need addressed by the editor.</p><p>1) I am about 150 words over the word limit on this document (250 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. 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".</p><p>2) I want to ensure my grammar and word choice is perfect.</p>Thank you very much!<br /><br />PS: Please send me a comment if you believe my response does not accurately answer the prompt fully. Thanks again. 