Medical School Secondary Application Prompts
Secondary Essays by School/Program
The Med School Insiders Secondary Application Database is updated for the 2024 application cycle! Medical schools are sorted alphabetically below.
Each school’s prompts are accompanied by expert tips and strategies to help you craft a more effective secondary application. To take your secondary applications to the next level, take a look at our secondary application packages.
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California Northstate University College of Medicine (Elk Grove, CA)
California University of Science and Medicine (Colton, CA)
Carle Illinois College of Medicine (Urbana, IL)
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Cleveland, OH)
Central Michigan University College of Medicine (Mount Pleasant, MI)
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (Los Angeles, CA)
Chicago Medical School – Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science (North Chicago, IL)
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (Cleveland, OH)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York, NY)
M
Marshall University – Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine – Minnesota (Rochester, MN)
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine – Arizona (Scottsdale, AZ)
Medical College of Georgia – School of Medicine (Augusta, GA)
Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)
Medical University of South Carolina – College of Medicine (Charleston, SC)
Meharry Medical College (Nashville, TN)
Mercer University School of Medicine (Macon, GA)
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (East Lansing, MI)
Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA)
Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine (New York, NY)
N
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (Old Westbury, NY)
New York Medical College School of Medicine (Valhalla, NY)
New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY)
Northeastern Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) (Rootstown, OH)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL)
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Saint Louis University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)
San Juan Bautista School of Medicine (Caguas, Puerto Rico)
Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota (Sioux Falls, SD)
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (Springfield, IL)
Stony Brook School of Medicine at University Medical Center (Stony Brook, NY)
Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford, CA)
SUNY Downstate Medical Center – College of Medicine (Brooklyn, NY)
SUNY Upstate Medical University – College of Medicine (Syracuse, NY)
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Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)
Texas A & M Health Science Center – College of Medicine (College Station, TX)
Texas Tech University HSC – Paul L. Foster School of Medicine (El Paso, TX)
Texas Tech University HSC School of Medicine (Lubbock, TX)
Thomas Jefferson University — Sidney Kimmel Medical College (Philadelphia, PA)
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Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine (Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
University at Buffalo – School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (Buffalo, NY)
University of Alabama School of Medicine (Birmingham, AL)
University of Arizona College of Medicine (Phoenix, AZ)
University of Arizona College of Medicine (Tucson, AZ)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences – College of Medicine (Little Rock, AR)
University of California Davis School of Medicine (Sacramento, CA)
University of California Irvine School of Medicine (Irvine, CA)
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA David Geffen) (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California Riverside School of Medicine (Riverside, CA)
University of California San Diego School of Medicine (San Diego, CA)
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine (San Francisco, CA)
University of Central Florida College of Medicine (Orlando, FL)
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (Chicago, IL)
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)
University of Colorado School of Medicine (Denver, CO)
University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Farmington, CT)
University of Florida College of Medicine (Gainesville, FL)
University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (Honolulu, HI)
University of Illinois College of Medicine (Chicago, IL)
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (Iowa City, IA)
University of Kansas School of Medicine (Kansas City, KS)
University of Kentucky College of Medicine (Lexington, KY)
University of Louisville School of Medicine (Louisville, KY)
University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)
University of Massachusetts School of Medicine (Worcester, MA)
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (Miami, FL)
University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, MI)
University of Minnesota Medical School – Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
University of Minnesota Medical School – Duluth (Duluth, MN)
University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine (Jackson, MS)
University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine (Kansas City, MO)
University of Missouri–Columbia School of Medicine (Columbia, MO)
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine (Omaha, NE)
University of Nevada–Reno School of Medicine (Reno, NV)
University of Nevada–Las Vegas School of Medicine (Las Vegas, NV)
University of New Mexico School of Medicine (Albuquerque, NM)
University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill School of Medicine (Chapel Hill, NC)
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (Grand Forks, ND)
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (Oklahoma City, OK)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Pittsburgh, PA)
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Rochester, NY)
University of South Alabama College of Medicine (Mobile, AL)
University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine (Tampa, FL)
University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Tennessee HSC College of Medicine (Memphis, TN)
University of Texas Austin Dell Medical School (Austin, TX)
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) School of Medicine (Galveston, TX)
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine (Edinburg, TX)
University of Texas Houston McGovern Medical School (Houston, TX)
University of Texas San Antonio School of Medicine (San Antonio, TX)
University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical School (Dallas, TX)
University of Toledo College of Medicine (Toledo, OH)
University of Utah School of Medicine (Salt Lake City, UT)
University of Virginia School of Medicine (Charlottesville, VA)
University of Vermont College of Medicine (Burlington, VT)
University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle, WA)
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (Madison, WI)
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Bowman Gray Campus (Winston-Salem, NC)
Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine (Spokane, WA)
Washington University in St. Louis – School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)
Wayne State University School of Medicine (Detroit, MI)
Weill Cornell Medicine Medical College (Manhattan, NY)
West Virginia University School of Medicine (Morgantown, WV)
Western Michigan University School of Medicine (Kalamazoo, MI)
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine (Dayton, OH)
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