Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Secondary Essay Prompts
about Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Secondary Deadline: December 8, 2025
Secondary Fee: $80
FAP Waiver: Yes
Casper Required: Yes
Screens Applications: Yes
Accepts Application Updates:
Mission
To develop our students, residents, fellows, faculty, and healthcare environment to deliver the highest quality care for all..
Values
- Embrace and model our professional reverence for the human condition, empathy towards suffering, excellence in medical care, research and discovery, and humility in service;
- Continue to serve and learn from the engagement of underrepresented minority populations among student, faculty, staff, and community;
- Integrate lifelong learning and inquiry into our students’ practice;
- Work in communion with scholars and practitioners of other disciplines to integrate their perspectives, experiences, and tools; and
- Understand that context, community, and behavior drive wellbeing.
2025-2026
(Each 500 words.)
1. Why are you interested in attending the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine?
2. Describe a time when you engaged with a perspective, culture, or experience different from your own. What did you learn, and how did it influence your personal or professional development?
3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences?
2024-2025
2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. 500 words
3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? 500 words
2023-2024
2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. (500 words)
3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? (500 words)
2022-2023
2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Describe a circumstance where you sought to learn about a culture, group or idea different than your own and how that impacted you. (500 words limit)
3. Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including coursework, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work opportunity, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences? (500 words limit)
4. Have you ever been convicted of any crime or offense, whether State or Federal, including offenses categorized as misdemeanors, high misdemeanors, or felonies? You should include convictions under any circumstances such as, but not limited to, a plea of guilty, Non Vult, Nolo Contendere, No Contest, etc., or a finding by a judge or jury. You do not need to include convictions that were overturned on appeal. (500 words limit)
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
Why are you interested in attending the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University?
State a professional goal/s that you wish to accomplish by pursuing a medical degree.
Explain what qualities of excellence, knowledge, and/or skills you would contribute to the medical school experience.
Please share personal experiences that have motivated your decision to enter health care, as well as short- and long-term goals.
Describe your experience with the field of medicine (or a related field) that has prepared you for advanced study in this area. Specifically, how have your life experiences prepared you to pursue a degree in medicine, including: coursework experiences, clinical work, experiences in overcoming adversity, work experiences, volunteer activities, and/or research experiences?
2017-2018
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