Eastern Virginia Medical School Secondary Essay Prompts
Avg GPA
3.82
Avg MCAT
513
Class size
151
SJT required
None
Eastern Virginia Medical School is a public school, so VA residents have a meaningful admissions advantage here.
The 2026-2027 prompts
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Collected from public applicant reports. Prompts occasionally change mid cycle, so confirm against your own secondary portal before you submit.
- 01
Briefly describe your exposure to medicine.
2000 characters - 02
What do you think you will like best about being a physician?
2000 characters - 03
What do you think you will like least about being a physician?
2000 characters - 04
Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now.
2000 characters - 05
Please indicate your reasons for applying to VHS-EVMS at ODU.
2000 characters - 06
VHS-EVMS at ODU is dedicated to inclusivity and supporting patients and students from diverse backgrounds. Feel free to share your personal experience or ties to communities from diverse backgrounds. If you wish to respond, please explain in detail. Some examples include but are not limited to race/ethnicity, culture, LGBTQ+, differently-abled/disabled, etc.
2000 charactersOptional - 07
If you would like to discuss how your individual background, perspective, or experience, including any societal or other barriers, have affected your life, through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise, feel free to share your experiences, obstacles overcome, and how this impacted your education and road to applying to medical school.
3000 charactersOptional
How to write these well
- Turn secondaries around within 7 to 14 days of receiving them. Schools read speed as interest, and slow essays land in a bigger pile.
- Pre-write the universal question types (diversity, challenge, why us) once, then adapt per school. Adapting is rewriting the school specific half, not swapping the name.
- Name real programs. A why us answer that cites a specific clinic, track, or community partnership reads ten times stronger than praise for reputation or location.
- Stay under the limit without padding to reach it. Readers are working through thousands of these; a tight answer is a kindness they remember.
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