University of Michigan Medical School Secondary Essay Prompts
Avg GPA
3.92
Avg MCAT
517
Class size
168
SJT required
None
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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.
- 01
How do you hope to impact medicine and improve patient care in the future? Why do you need a medical degree to fulfill these goals?
1500 characters - 02
Please describe the impact of your identity and experiences on your growth and development, and how it may impact your career as a physician.
1500 characters - 03
The University of Michigan Medical School strives to be a place of empowerment, advocacy and change in health care. What experiences have you had in empowerment and advocacy for others that would help to advance this mission?
1500 characters - 04
Outside of medicine, and beyond what we can read in your application, tell us what you are curious about or what you have chosen to explore.
1500 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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