Mercer University School of Medicine Secondary Essay 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

   Please provide your institutional email and personal email addresses to which we can send you correspondence related to your application.

   Not applicable
2. 02

   Please provide a phone number at which you can be contacted in reference to your application.

   Not applicable
3. 03

   Please address any institutional action, including honor code or conduct code violations, from your time as an undergraduate and graduate student. Applicants may answer 'None' to this question if the action was deleted, expunged, or otherwise removed from their record by the institution.

   230 words
4. 04

   If you wish to discuss your perceptions of your academic readiness for the rigors of a medical school curriculum or explain poor grades in college coursework or MCAT scores to the Admissions Committee, please do so below.

   230 words
5. 05

   Describe your personal experience with rural medicine.

   230 words
6. 06

   The mission of Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) is to educate physicians and health professionals to meet the health care needs of medically underserved and rural areas of Georgia. Summarize your work and learning experiences that you believe reflect congruence with this mission. Based on your understanding of our mission, where and what do you envision yourself doing after completion of medical school and residency?

   230 words
7. 07

   Please briefly explain to the Admissions Committee experiences, attributes, or qualifications you believe are unique to you that will strengthen the educational environment at MUSM.

   230 words
8. 08

   Please explain to the Admissions Committee factors that you could not highlight above that would help the Admissions Committee better understand your unique circumstances. If you would like to briefly highlight any substantial updates with regard to your application (example, volunteer experiences) that have occurred after you submitted the Primary AMCAS Application, please summarize them below.

   230 words
9. 09

   Describe your body of work in service to the underserved and reflect on its importance in preparing you for the practice medicine.

   230 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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