Stanford Medicine Secondary Application

Stanford Medicine Secondary Essay Prompts

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

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

Prompts:

• What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
  Academic Medicine (Clinical)
  Academic Medicine (Physician Scientist)
  Non-Academic Clinical Practice
  Health Policy
  Health Administration
  Primary Care
  Public Health/Community Health
  Global Health
  Please describe your motivation for this practice scenario. Why do you feel you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1000 characters)
• How will you take advantage of the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals? (1000 characters)
• Describe in a short paragraph your educational and family background. (For example) I grew up in New York City, as the 3rd child of a supermarket cashier and a high school principal. I attended Mann High School where my major interests were boxing and drama. (600 characters)
• Please describe which aspects of your life experiences, interests, and character would help you to make a distinctive contribution to Stanford Medicine. (2000 characters)
• Please describe how you have uniquely contributed to a community with which you identify. (1000 characters)
• Please describe an experience/ situation when you advocated for someone else. (1000 characters)

Primary Deadline: Usually around Oct 1st
Secondary Deadline: Usually around Oct 24st
Secondary Fee: $95
FAP Waiver: Full Fee Waived
Casper Required: No
PREview Required: No
Screens Applications: No
Accepts Application Updates: Yes Post Interview/Portal

Stanford Medicine Mission:

Our mission is to educate and inspire leaders in medicine and science who will improve human health through discovery, innovation, scholarship, education, and the delivery of outstanding patient-centered care.

Older Essays:

• The Committee on Admissions regards the diversity (broadly defined) of an entering class as an important factor in serving the educational mission of the school. The Committee on Admissions strongly encourages you to share unique, personally important, and/or challenging factors in your background, such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and life or work experiences. Please discuss how such factors have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine. Please limit your answer to 2,000 characters including spaces.
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• What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Why do you feel you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters including spaces.
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• How will the Stanford curriculum, and specifically the requirement for a scholarly concentration, help your personal career goals? Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters including spaces. 
• Please include anything else that will help us understand better how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine? (OPTIONAL/Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters including spaces).
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Required

• What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
  -Academic Medicine (Clinical)
  -Academic Medicine (Physician Scientist)
  -Non-Academic Clinical Practice
  -Health Policy
  -Health Administration
  -Primary Care
  -Public Health/Community Health
  -Global HealthWhy do you feel you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1000 characters)
• How will you take advantage of the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals? (1000 characters)
• Describe in a short paragraph your educational and family background. (E.g., I grew up in New York City, as the 3rd child of a supermarket cashier and a high school principal. I attended Mann High School where my major interests were boxing and drama.) (600 characters)
• The Committee on Admissions regards the diversity (broadly defined) of an entering class as an important factor in serving the educational mission of the school. You are strongly encouraged to share unique attributes of your personal identity, and/ or personally important or challenging factors in your background. Such discussions may include the quality of your early education, gender identity, sexual orientation, any physical challenges, or any other life or work experiences. (2000 characters)
• Please describe how you have uniquely contributed to a community with which you identify. (1000 characters)
• Please describe an experience/ situation when you advocated for someone else. (1000 characters)

Optional

• Please describe any lessons, hardships, challenges or opportunities that resulted from the global COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, describe how these insights have informed your motivations and preparation for medical school in areas of academics, research, employment, volunteer service and/or clinical experiences. (1000 characters)
• Please include anything else that will help us understand better how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine? (1000 characters)