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Thank you to @mangowolf for sharing this year's questions!

2021-2022 UC San Francisco Secondary Essay Prompts:
1. Provide additional info below (dates, best way to contact) if you will be out of the country during interview season (Late Sept to February, interviews conducted remotely). (300 characters)
2. If you wish to update or expand upon your activities, you may provide additional information below. (500 words)
3. If you are 2021 or earlier college graduate, please use the space below to tell us what you have done since completing your undergraduate degree. (350 words)
4. Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? Please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community. (350 words)

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For everyone considering applying, here's last cycle's secondary questions:
  • If you wish to update or expand upon your activities, you may provide additional information below. (500 words).
  • If you are 2020 or earlier college graduate, please use the space below to tell us what you have done since completing your undergraduate degree. (350 words).
 
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These are additional prompts I saw from last year:

  • Applicants are interviewed by invitation only. Please note that we do not conduct regional interviews. Interviews are scheduled from September to February (days vary). Please let us know if you will be out of the country during the interview season. (300 characters)
For MSTP:
  • Please describe your most recent research project, its importance and how it captured your interest. (500 words)
  • Please list publications, honors and presentations resulting from your research experiences. (500 words)
  • Please briefly describe your reasons for applying to the UCSF MSTP. (250 words)
  • Please check the program(s) you are interested in: (checklist)
  • Please select 6 faculty with whom you would like to meet if selected for an interview (dropdown list, you can pick up to 10)
  • Form to add research experiences; at least one experience needs to be entered in order for the page to be completed
 
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Hey Prospective UCSF applicants I thought it would be right to start this off by checking in with everybody about how far along they are in the verification proccess and how excited are yall to embark on this UCSF med school journey?
 
Hey all can people who applied to UCSF comment if they have been verified or not?
 
Ok nice I submitted about early June and have not heard back yet.
 
wavyboys21 said:
Ok nice I submitted about early June and have not heard back yet.
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Apps are not transmitted to individual medical schools until 06/25. UCSF seems to screen applicants before sending out secondary apps, so might be a week or two before they send out secondaries after that (not sure if someone else can confirm this).
 
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Apps are not transmitted to individual medical schools until 06/25. UCSF seems to screen applicants before sending out secondary apps, so might be a week or two before they send out secondaries after that (not sure if someone else can confirm this).
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Can confirm! Last cycle it took about a month from when my app was sent out to receiving the UCSF secondary.
 
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If you are 2020 or earlier college graduate, please use the space below to tell us what you have done since completing your undergraduate degree. (350 words).

Any non-trads far out from graduation know if we should mention every single activity we have done ever since, or just the most important stuff?
 
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I read on UCSF's admissions website to "Please be aware that UCSF is participating in the AMCAS letter service, and as such applicants are required to submit their letters of recommendation via AMCAS."

Does that mean UCSF will not accept letters collected through Interfolio?
 
Pwny said:
I read on UCSF's admissions website to "Please be aware that UCSF is participating in the AMCAS letter service, and as such applicants are required to submit their letters of recommendation via AMCAS."

Does that mean UCSF will not accept letters collected through Interfolio?
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Well letters form Interfolio are delivered to AMCAS first and then to the school through AMCAS, so I would assume that they would accept that
 
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Pwny said:
I read on UCSF's admissions website to "Please be aware that UCSF is participating in the AMCAS letter service, and as such applicants are required to submit their letters of recommendation via AMCAS."

Does that mean UCSF will not accept letters collected through Interfolio?
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They mean that you can't send them directly from Interfolio to the school. You have to send them to AAMC as the middle man, like @Shazthepaws said.
 
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Prompts:

- Provide additional info below (dates, best way to contact) if you will be out of the country during interview season (Late Sept to February, interviews conducted remotely). 300 char
- If you wish to update or expand upon your activities, you may provide additional information below. 500 words
- If you are 2021 or earlier college graduate, please use the space below to tell us what you have done since completing your undergraduate degree. 350 words
-Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? Please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community. 350 words

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Does UCSF screen applications before giving out secondaries?
 
Wow yall already getting secondarys already they are doing it very early. May I ask when yall were verified?
 
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Wasn’t expecting these notifications these early dang. OOS hopeful.
 
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Hey yall for those who recieved secondary can you say when you were verified? So we can see a timeline of when you were verified to when you got your secondary. Was it right away after you submitted or after some time
 
wavyboys21 said:
Hey yall for those who recieved secondary can you say when you were verified? So we can see a timeline of when you were verified to when you got your secondary. Was it right away after you submitted or after some time
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I have been verified since 6/4 and have not received. It is not based on verification timeline.
 
wavyboys21 said:
Hey yall for those who recieved secondary can you say when you were verified? So we can see a timeline of when you were verified to when you got your secondary. Was it right away after you submitted or after some time
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Verified on 06/22
 
wavyboys21 said:
Hey yall for those who recieved secondary can you say when you were verified? So we can see a timeline of when you were verified to when you got your secondary. Was it right away after you submitted or after some time
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Verified on 5/30
 
Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? Please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community. Is this prompt optional or required?
 
RelativeAnxiety said:
Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? Please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community. Is this prompt optional or required?
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Optional. Well, at least I really hope it is because I didn't put anything in the text box.
 
are_u_not_entertained said:
Have you received a secondary yet?

OOS w/o one still (app transmitted to UCSF 7/3)
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No, not worried about it yet. Very few people OOS have reported getting one and UCSF has a robust screening process. If you got UCLA or UCSD, you will probably get UCSF
 
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2021-2022-NonTrad said:
No, not worried about it yet. Very few people OOS have reported getting one and UCSF has a robust screening process. If you got UCLA or UCSD, you will probably get UCSF
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Just to add a data point, received UCSD, UCD, and UCLA so far, no word yet from UCSF or UCI (did not apply to Riverside)

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I have gotten UCSD, not UCLA, UCI, or UCSF yet. Hoping they come soon! LM 76 IS no IAs
 
Are letters of recommendation required to receive a secondary? Wondering if they're used to decide whether to send a secondary or not...
 
No it is not required they only use it when evaluating secondary to determine if you get an interview or not.
 
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I have gotten UCSD but haven't gotten UCLA or UCSF yet.
 
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star-lily said:
I have gotten UCSD but haven't gotten UCLA or UCSF yet.
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I'm the opposite haha -- have UCLA but no UCSD or UCSF

Just received UCSD "we have received your verified app" email today, but silence from UCSF. I'm sure we'll be fine... right...?
 
WhatsUpDoc824 said:
LM 85??!! You are a beast
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Any LM >78 is more-or-less equivalent on a stats basis (ie a 4.0/521 vs a 3.7/523). >LM 78, it’s the WARS that matters.

edit: But either way, can we leave the stats stuff out of the school specifics and just talk about the schools/build camaraderie in a non-marginalizing manner?
 
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2021-2022-NonTrad said:
Any LM >78 is more-or-less equivalent on a stats basis (ie a 4.0/521 vs a 3.7/523). >LM 78, it’s the WARS that matters.

edit: But either way, can we leave the stats stuff out of the school specifics and just talk about the schools/build camaraderie in a non-marginalizing manner?
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Agreed, but I think we can make an exception for recognition of a 4.0/528 :rofl:
 
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