The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 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

   Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle? NOTE: Interviews occur on Thursday's and/or Friday's beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any significant limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. You may use the text box below to explain your limited availability. (if none, leave blank)

   500 characters
2. 02

   Summarize your activities during the 2024-2025 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career.

   2000 characters
3. 03

   How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community?

   2000 characters
4. 04

   Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so.

   3000 characters

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.