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Harvard Secondary Application

Harvard Secondary Application Prompts

Prompts have been updated June 2023

Prompts

On average how many hours per week did you devote to employment during the academic year?

If you have already graduated, briefly summarize your activities since graduation.

(4000 characters)

If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity, not addressed elsewhere in the application, that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Many applicants will not need to answer this question. Examples might include significant challenges in access to education, unusual socioeconomic factors, identification with a minority culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine.

(4000 characters)

Optional

The Committee on Admissions understands that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted applicants in various ways. If you wish to inform the Committee as to how these events have affected you and have not already done so elsewhere in your application, please use this space to do so. (This is an optional essay; the Committee on Admissions will make no judgment based on your decision to provide a statement or not.)

(4000 characters)

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