Here are the secondary prompts for University of Virginia School of Medicine.
2024-2025
(wording of essay 2 has changed since last year)
2 short answer questions & 3 Essays:
Questions:
1. Please briefly describe how the pandemic impacted your ability to pursue experiences like clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service. (No apparent limit)
2. Please list any and all future activities in clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service that you plan to pursue in the upcoming year. (No apparent limit)
Essays:
1. Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school? (350 word limit)
2. What about your individual background, perspective, or experience will serve as a source of strength for you or those around you at UVA? Feel free to write about any past experience or part of your background that has shaped your perspective and will be a source of strength, including but not limited to those related to your community, upbringing, educational environment, race, gender, or other aspects of your background that are important to you. (350 word limit)
3. Tell us about a challenge or obstacle you experienced. How did you manage it? (350 word limit)
2023-2024
Please briefly describe how the pandemic impacted your ability to pursue experiences like clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service.
Please list any and all future activities in clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service that you plan to pursue in the upcoming year.
Essay 1
Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school? Please answer the question in 350 words or less.
Essay 2
How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and the University of Virginia School of Medicine? Please answer the question in 350 words or less.
Essay 3
Tell us about a challenge or obstacle you experienced. How did you manage it? Please answer the question in 350 words or less.
2021-2022
Intro Questions:
Please briefly describe how the pandemic impacted your ability to pursue experiences like clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service.
Please list any and all future activities in clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service that you plan to pursue in the upcoming year.
3 Essays:
Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school?
How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and the University of Virginia School of Medicine?
Describe a situation which you found challenging. How did you manage it?
2020-2021
Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school?
How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and the University of Virginia School of Medicine?
Describe a situation which you found challenging. How did you manage it?
2019-2020
Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school?
How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and the University of Virginia School of Medicine?
Describe a situation which you found challenging. How did you manage it?
2018-2019
(all have a limit of 350 words or less):
Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school?
How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and the University of Virginia School of Medicine?
Describe a situation which you found challenging. How did you manage it?
For MSTP applicants, there is also a fourth essay of 350 words or less with the following prompt:
Below, please briefly discuss:
a) The areas of biomedical research that interest you the most and why.
b) The discovery in your laboratory experience that excited you the most and why.
2017-2018
All 3 of the essays have a word limit of 350 words.
1. Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school?
2. How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and the University of Virginia School of Medicine?
3. Describe a situation which you found challenging. How did you manage it?
Good luck to everyone applying!
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