Loma Linda 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

   What makes LLU particularly attractive to you?

   275 words or less
2. 02

   Our medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from the Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Religion courses and weekly chapel services are part of this program. Please respond to the preceding statements as they relate to your personal educational and career goals.

   275 words or less
3. 03

   What personal attributes make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM?

   275 words or less
4. 04

   Identify experiences in your life that illustrate your service to others.

   275 words or less
5. 05

   Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experiences have influenced and been integrated into your daily life.

   275 words or less
6. 06

   Please describe your current involvement (or reason for not being involved) with a church or religious group.

   275 words or less

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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