Identifying Altruism...and Narcissism in the admissions process

Much is written here about the importance of demonstrating altruism. Given an applicant pool filled with extremely high achieving individuals with generally large ambitions, and given that one can imagine a large percentage of candidates possess at least, for lack of better words, a "healthy" dose of narcissism, how do (or do they?) adcoms suss out whether candidates have the kind of narcissism that most don't want to see in their physicians? And are there cases where some of those who...

Identifying Altruism...and Narcissism in the admissions process

Identifying Altruism...and Narcissism in the admissions process