Rush Medical College Secondary Application

Rush Medical College Secondary Essay Prompts

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

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

Prompts

Required

• Rush Medical College is located on Chicago’s near west side and serves a diverse patient population. We seek to train physicians who can connect with diverse patient populations with whom they may not share a similar background. Tell us about a life experience that has broadened your own world view or enhanced your ability to understand those unlike yourself and what you learned from this experience. (1000 characters)
• As an anchor institution, Rush is embedded in its strategies to improve the societal and structural determinants of health, which improve the economic vitality of Chicago’s west side neighborhoods and help residents achieve better health. Using your own experiences, describe how you have impacted and/or changed a person or community. (1000 characters)
• As an anchor institution, Rush is embedded in its strategies to improve the societal and structural determinants of health, which improve the economic vitality of Chicago’s west side neighborhoods and help residents achieve better health. Using your own experiences, describe how you have impacted and/or changed a person or community. (1000 characters)
• Do you have direct patient care/contact experience beyond shadowing/observing? Answering “yes” demonstrates you have had active interactions with patients and/or clinical participation in their continuum of care. (if yes you fill out a 400 char description of activities for EACH experience) (400 characters)

Optional

• If applicable, describe how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted your application to and/or preparation for medical school. (1000 characters)
• Use this space to provide additional information, which is non-COVID related, you would like the Committee on Admissions to be aware of when reviewing your application (1000 characters)

Primary Deadline: Usually around Oct 1st
Secondary Deadline: Usually around Nov 15th
Secondary Fee: $100
FAP Waiver: Full Fee Waived
Casper Required: Yes, Snapshot and Duet
PREview Required: No
Screens Applications: Yes
Accepts Application Updates: Yes Waitlisted Applicants/Email

Rush Medical College at Rush University Mission:

Through a supportive and dynamic learning community, Rush Medical College nurtures the development of empathic, proficient physicians dedicated to continuous learning, innovation, and excellence in clinical practice, education, research and service.

Rush Medical College at Rush University Vision:

Rush Medical College will be the global leader in student-centered, future-oriented medical education.

Older Essays:

• Describe personal attributes you possess or life experiences you have had that will enable you to better understand patients with a culture different from your own. Please include your self-reflection on how this experience has changed your insights, beliefs, and/or values.
  How to Answer “Why Should We Accept You?” in Your Secondaries
• Describe a challenging situation in which you did not agree with a directive/rule and how you handled this.
  How to Write About Your Obstacles, Challenges, and Problems in your Secondary Essays
• Reflect on a time in which you personally gained more from an experience than what was expected.
• What do you hope to gain from your Rush Medical College experience that will make you a better/different physician?
  How to Answer Secondary Prompts about “Why Us”