Oakland University William Beaumont Secondary Application

Oakland University William Beaumont Secondary Essay Prompts

(If you have updated prompts, please submit them at updatesecondaries.com)

Prompts have been updated April 2023. (Older essays, if available are below)

Prompts:

Required

• How have your experiences serving others contributed to your personal growth, and how would your experiences contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in our community?
• Describe your motivation to attend OUWB.

Optional

• Is there anything you want the admissions committee to know about your qualifications for medical school that are not already represented in your application materials? For example, if you have already graduated, briefly summarize your activities since graduation. Note: This space is provided for new information only, not to promote qualifications already highlighted in your other materials.
• If you are a re-applicant to OUWB, please describe improvements you have made to your current application from previous cycles (please include academics, experiences, and/or personal characteristics).

Primary Deadline: November 15, 2021
Secondary Deadline: Unknown (Try to turn your secondaries around within two weeks after receiving)
Secondary Fee: $75
FAP Waiver: Full Fee Waived
CASPer Required: No
VITA Required: No
Screens Applications: Yes
Accepts Application Updates: Yes

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Mission:

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine is a collaborative, diverse, inclusive, and technologically advanced learning community, dedicated to enabling students to become skillful, ethical, and compassionate physicians, inquisitive scientists who are invested in the scholarship of discovery, and dynamic and effective medical educators.

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Vision:

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine will be recognized by its students and faculty members – and by their peers in the global medical community – as a premier educational environment for individuals to become physicians and to study medicine throughout their lives, to transform the practice of medicine through research, and to lead in promoting, maintaining, and restoring health to individuals and communities served by the school and its graduates.

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Values:

• Compassion:
  We are a “School that cares” by having a safe and secure environment that treats everyone with respect, sensitivity, dignity, decency and empathy in all our endeavors.
• Partnership, Collaboration and Teamwork:
  We are dedicated to collegiality, collaboration, teamwork, and mutual respect as enthusiastically we work together within and across organizational boundaries in pursuit of our mission.
• Innovation:
  We pursue all avenues to energize and encourage creativity while cultivating and nurturing the school environment to foster the unique talents of our students, staff and faculty.
• Professionalism:
  We value honesty, integrity and ethical conduct in dealing with our students, patients, faculty, staff and the community we serve.
• Quest for Excellence:
  We commit to doing the best for everyone who interacts with the school by always striving to build upon and enhance what already has been achieved.

Former Prompts (before 23-24 cycle)

• How have your experiences serving others contributed to your personal growth?
• Describe your motivation to attend OUWB.
• Optional: If applicable, please describe any connections you have to the OUWB communities.
• If you have already graduated, briefly summarize your activities since graduation.
• Optional: Is there anything you want the admissions committee to know about your qualifications for medical school that is not already represented in your application materials? Note: This space is provided for new information only, not to promote qualifications already highlighted in your other materials.