University of Houston College 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

   I have prior experience in primary care setting (general internal medicine physician, a general pediatrician, or a family medicine physician).

   Yes or No
2. 02

   I have prior experience in a medical practice or social service for an underserved area:

   Yes or No
3. 03

   I have prior experience in community or public health:

   Yes or No
4. 04

   Why are you interested in the primary care field(s) and care of the community as a whole?

   2500 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.

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