Here are Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University’s secondary questions.
2025-2026
Required:
How does your professional goal of being a physician align with the mission and values of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine? (5000 characters)
If you are not presently attending school, please indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school. If still in school, enter N/A. (5000 characters)
Optional:
Have you previously applied to Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine?
If yes, what was the class year of your previous application and outline any significant changes or new experience from your previous application. (500 characters)
2024-2025
1. Why did you decide to apply to Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine? (5000 characters)
2. Describe a challenging experience and how it impacted your personal growth. (750 characters)
3.(Optional/New) Please provide below any additional information you believe is important in evaluating your application (e.g. additional coursework, problems with academic record, disadvantaged, etc.) Please indicate, yes or no and then explain/describe briefly in 250 words or less.
2023-2024
1. Why did you decide to apply to Marshall? (5000 char)
2. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine? (5000 char)
3. If you are not presently attending school indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school. If still in school, enter N/A. (2000 char)
2021-2022
- Why did you decide to apply to Marshall? (5000 characters)
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine? (5000 characters)
- If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
- Please share any disruptions in your academic, volunteer, work, and/or personal life related to COVID-19 that you would like the Admissions Committee to consider.
2020-2021
- Why did you decide to apply to Marshall? (5000 characters)
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine? (5000 characters)
- If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
- Please share any disruptions in your academic, volunteer, work, and/or personal life related to COVID-19 that you would like the Admissions Committee to consider.
2019-2020
- Why did you decide to apply to Marshall? (5000 characters)
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine? (5000 characters)
- If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
2018-2019
5000 character limit on each.
- Why did you decide to apply to Marshall?
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine?
- If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
- They do also ask for moving/traffic violations and give a couple boxes to explain any ties to WV, Marshall, or the School of Medicine.
- Nonresidents won’t start being reviewed till November, with interviews starting in January.
- 2017-2018
WV resident- Primary submitted two days ago (it is not verified) and secondary received today. Email stated that the secondary was automatic for WV residents.
1. Why did you decide to apply to the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine? If you have strong ties to West Virginia, please describe in detail.
2. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine?
3. If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
(no character limit)
Good luck to everyone applying!
2016-2017
Same as previous year.
*No indicated word limit
2015-2016
- Why did you decide to apply to the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine? If you have strong ties to West Virginia, please describe in detail.
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine?
- If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
2014-2015
- Why did you decide to apply to the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine? If you have strong ties to West Virginia, please describe in detail.
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you want to serve or practice medicine?
- If you are not presently attending school, indicate your employment or other plans for the time prior to your planned enrollment in medical school.
