Emory University School of Medicine Secondary Essay Prompts

The 2025-2026 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.

1. 01

   List your entire curriculum plan for the 2025-2026 academic year. If you are not in school, please briefly describe your plans for the coming year

   200 words
2. 02

   Briefly describe your health-related experiences. Be sure to include important experiences that are in your AMCAS application, as well as any recent experiences

   200 words
3. 03

   Briefly describe your interest in Emory and the Emory degree program you have selected

   200 words
4. 04

   Emory School of Medicine is committed to recruiting and educating medical students who will help deliver quality health care and will promote the health of our patients. In our community, this includes learning about and addressing the health care needs of our most under-served populations. Please describe any of your activities that have been in service to under-served communities

   200 words
5. 05

   If you have any updates or new information to report since you have submitted your AMCAS primary application, please briefly describe below

   200 words

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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