Morehouse 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

   Give an example when you have shown resilience and how you would overcome academic adversity if encountered in medical school.

   200 words
2. 02

   In what ways do you plan to contribute to the Morehouse School of Medicine community, both during your time as a student and beyond?

   200 words
3. 03

   Imagine you're a healthcare provider working at a community clinic with limited resources. You're responsible for distributing a small number of free glucose monitors to patients with diabetes. You have two patients who qualify: one is highly engaged, follows care instructions, and has shown consistent improvement. The other struggles with managing their condition due to low literacy, language barriers, and unstable housing, and often misses appointments. You only have one monitor left. Who do you give it to, and why? How would you navigate this situation in a way that reflects a commitment to health equity?

   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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