New York University Long Island School of Medicine Secondary Essay Prompts

The 2026-2027 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

   If you are a re-applicant to any medical school, please describe what steps you have taken to strengthen your candidacy. Additionally, if you did not previously apply to NYUGLISOM, why have you chosen to apply to our program now?

   400 wordsOptional
2. 02

   Please select your intended residency track below and discuss your reasons for this choice, how the pre-medical experiences listed on your AMCAS application confirm your commitment to this field within the context of primary care, and why you have chosen this medical discipline over others you have explored. If applicable, please explain how your academic interests or personal journey may have influenced your residency track selection.

   400 words
3. 03

   Please provide a response to the timeline that pertains to you: If you have graduated from college, please tell us what you have been doing since that time up until the present and your reasons for doing so? (Please be sure to account for all your time since graduating, including your plans for the upcoming application cycle.) Please also discuss how these experiences have informed you of your understanding of primary care and chosen residency track. If you are still in college, what factors influenced your decision to apply to NYUGLISOM directly from undergrad? Please also tell us your planned academic, extracurricular, research, community service and/or work activities for the upcoming application cycle and how any of these activities align with your interest in primary care and chosen residency track?

   400 words
4. 04

   Do you have any personal, professional, or educational ties to the Long Island, NYC-Metropolitan or Tri-State (NY, NJ, CT) Areas? If so, please describe how these connections have influenced your decision to apply to NYUGLISOM and how they may impact your plans to practice medicine.

   400 wordsOptional
5. 05

   Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities that you feel would be helpful for the admissions committee to consider when conducting its comprehensive review of your credentials.

   400 wordsOptional
6. 06

   Please feel free to share any other information that you have not already included in your AMCAS application or secondary responses that you believe would be relevant for the admissions committee to know about.

   400 wordsOptional

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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