Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School Secondary Essay Prompts
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About Brown University Warren alpert Medical school
Secondary Deadline: November 1, 2026
Secondary Fee: $120
FAP Waiver: Yes
Casper Required: No
PREview Required: No
Screens Applications: No
Accepts Application Updates: Yes
Mission
To support and promote the health of individuals and communities through innovative medical education programs, research initiatives, and clinical excellence in service to society and to improve the health and wellness of all.
Vision
We envision attracting, training, and sustaining diverse individuals who will work together to lead locally, nationally and internationally renowned transformative and socially responsible medical education, research, clinical care, and advocacy. We will inspire and cultivate physician scholars and leaders who positively impact the health of people and society.
Values
- Humanism and compassion
- Integrity, accountability, and collaboration
- Creativity, innovation, and discovery
- Inclusiveness, diversity, and equity
- Dedication to anti-racism
- Social responsibility, both locally and globally
- Community engagement and service
- Commitment to professional development
2026-2027
- (Optional) Premed competencies alternatives. If you believe that you have demonstrated competence in these disciplines in an alternate manner, please describe in the text box below that relevant coursework, individualized study, research, or employment. If you believe that you have fulfilled competency through a standardized examination such as Advanced Placement or the SAT II, please list the name, date and score of the exam(s) in the text box below that you wish to substitute in lieu of a premedical course. (500 Characters)
- (Optional) Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability? 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) (500 Characters)
- Summarize your activities during this academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 Characters)
- How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community? (2000 Characters)
- Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so. (3000 Characters)
Additional essays for the MD-ScM Combined (Primary Care – Population Medicine combined degree program):
- In your opinion, what is one of the most pressing concerns in healthcare? If given unlimited resources, how do you envision beginning to tackle this issue? (2000 Characters)
- Describe your vision and goals for your primary care medicine career and any experiences that have helped develop it. How might you accomplish the dual roles of improving individual health and the health of populations? (2000 Characters)
Additional essays for the MudPhuds:
- Please identify potential research mentors at Brown University and describe how your research background and interests align with the research of those mentors. (2000 Characters)
- Check off research areas of interest (multiple choice allowed)
- Pathobiology
- Neuroscience
- Therapeutic Sciences
- Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
- Biotechnology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computational Biology
- Other
2025-2026
1. Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2025-2026 admissions cycle? (500 characters)
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.)
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)
2024-2025
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)
2023-2024
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)
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2022-2023
1) Summarize your activities during the 2022-2023 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career (2000 characters).
2) 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)
3) What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters).
2021-2022
2020-2021
1. Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2020-2021 admissions cycle?
2. Summarize your activities during the 202–2021 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
3. 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)
4. 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
1. Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2019-2020 admissions cycle?
2. Summarize your activities during the 2019-2020 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
3. 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)
4. 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
NOTE: 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)
1. Summarize your activities during the 2018-2019 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
2. 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:
3. 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:
4. 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)
5. 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)
2017-2018
2016-2017
1. Summarize your activities during the 2016-2017 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (2000 characters)
2. 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)
3. What are your aspirations for your medical practice? Fast-forward to 15 years in the future: where do you imagine yourself? (3000 characters)
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