2025-2026 Brown Secondary Essay Prompts
1. Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2025-2026 admissions cycle? (Assume they meant 2025-2026) 500 characters
NOTE: Interviews occur on Thursday’s and/or Friday’s beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any significant limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. You may use the text box below to explain your limited availability. (if none, leave blank)
2. Summarize your activities during the 2025-2026 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. 2000 characters
3. How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community? 2000 characters
4. Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so. 3000 characters
First Question: Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle?
*NOTE: Interviews occur on Thursdays and/or Fridays beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any significant limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. You may use the text box below to explain your limited availability. (if none, leave blank)*
Three Required Essays:
1. Summarize your activities during the 2024-2025 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
2. How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community?
(2000 characters)
3. Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so. (3000 characters)
2022-2023
1. Summarize your activities during the 2023-2024 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
2. How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
3. Reflect on a situation when you had to change course, and how you did so. (3000 characters)
2021-2022
- Summarize your activities during the 2021-2022 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
- How will your unique attributes (e.g., cultural or socioeconomic background, lifestyle, work experiences) add to the overall diversity of the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
- What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters)
2019-2020
- Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2019-2020 admissions cycle?
- Summarize your activities during the 2019-2020 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
- How will your unique attributes (e.g., cultural or socioeconomic background, lifestyle, work experiences) add to the overall diversity of the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
- What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters)
2018-2019
- Interviews occur on Thursday’s and/or Friday’s beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any significant limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. You may use the text box below to explain your limited availability. (if none, leave blank) (500 characters)
- Summarize your activities during the 2018-2019 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
- How will your unique attributes (e.g., cultural or socioeconomic background, lifestyle, work experiences) add to the overall diversity of the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
- What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters)
2017-2018
For all programs:
- Interviews occur on Thursdays and/or Fridays beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. (500 characters)
- Summarize your activities during the 2017-2018 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
- How will your unique attributes (e.g., cultural or socioeconomic background, lifestyle, work experiences) add to the overall diversity of the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
For Regular MD only:
- What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters)
- For MD-ScM:
Imagine that you are approached by a multibillionaire philanthropist who wants to donate a substantial fund of money to a single project with the goal of “fixing the US healthcare system.” He/she asks for your expert opinion on what project this money should go towards; what would you advise and why? (2000 characters) - Often when we talk about medicine, we focus on the individual physician-patient relationship. Why should medical schools train future physicians to care for communities and populations as a whole, and not just individual patients? (2000 characters)
Good luck to everyone applying!
2016-2017
- Summarize your activities during the 2016-2017 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
- How will your unique attributes (e.g., cultural or socioeconomic background, lifestyle, work experiences) add to the overall diversity of the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
- What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters)
2015-2016
- Summarize your activities during the 2015-2016 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
- How will your unique attributes (e.g., cultural or socioeconomic background, lifestyle, work experiences) add to the overall diversity of the Alpert Medical School community? (2000 characters)
- Imagine that you are approached by a multibillionaire philanthropist who wants to donate a substantial fund of money to a single project with the goal of “fixing the US healthcare system.” He/she asks for your expert opinion on what project this money should go towards; what would you advise and why?
- Often when we talk about medicine, we focus on the individual physician-patient relationship. Why should medical schools train future physicians to care for communities and populations as a whole, and not just individual patients?
