Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Secondary Essay Prompts
Avg GPA
3.88
Avg MCAT
511
Class size
194
SJT required
CASPer
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
The mission of our academic health system is to improve health for all. Consider your abilities, insights, and previous experiences and then tell us about your potential to help improve health for all.
200 words - 02
Describe a non-academic challenge you have faced and explain how you overcame it.
200 words - 03
From your list of "most meaningful experiences" on the AMCAS application, choose one that has been the most formative in terms of your desire for a career in medicine. Why did that experience have such meaning for you in your decision-making process?
200 words - 04
Please share an experience that demonstrates how you have collaborated with others.
200 words - 05
Tell us about a time you have committed yourself to something.
200 words - 06
Tell us about any specific reason(s) (personal, educational, etc.) why you see yourself here at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
150 words - 07
Please tell us an interesting fact about yourself that a casual acquaintance may find surprising or interesting.
50 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.
- Heads up: this school also requires CASPer, so build that into your timeline alongside the essays.
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