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Meharry Medical College Secondary Essay Prompts

Nashville, TNMDPrivateFrom the 2025-2026 cycle

Avg GPA

3.65

Avg MCAT

506

Class size

115

SJT required

None

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

    Statement of Purpose: Why do you wish to attend Meharry Medical College, School of Medicine?

    No stated limit
  2. 02

    Statement of Resilience: Please describe a personal situation of failure, significant challenge or a major obstacle that you have overcome. Include a description of your coping skills and lessons you learned about yourself from that situation.

    No stated limit

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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