2022-2023 Nevada, Las Vegas

[wysdoc]

Thanks for sharing this year's questions, @Evanc17

2022-2023 Nevada, Las Vegas Secondary Essay Prompts (250 word limit each)

1. Describe how your background and future goals will contribute to the mission of the UNLV School of Medicine.
2. Briefly discuss how you envision yourself contributing to the care of our growing and diverse population in the state of Nevada.
3. Provide a BRIEF chronological summary of your time since graduating from high school up to the point of applying to medical school.
4. (OPTIONAL) You are welcome to share with the Admissions Committee any disruptions or impact to your application components, the application process, and/or your personal life due to COVID-19. This field is not required.
5. (OPTIONAL) If you have any other information you believe is important for the Admissions Committee to consider, please include it here. Do not restate information already in your primary AMCAS application.

Good luck to everyone applying!

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[UNLV Admin 2]

Hello Everyone and welcome to the 2022-2023 cycle for the Class of 2027 at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Our administrative team watches this forum each year periodically and tries to answer questions or clarify information. If anything is urgent, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected]

 

[dr.j.a.]

Hello Everyone and welcome to the 2022-2023 cycle for the Class of 2027 at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Our administrative team watches this forum each year periodically and tries to answer questions or clarify information. If anything is urgent, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected]

Hello! Have secondaries to applicants with ties to Nevada been sent out yet? Thank you.

 

[E1520]

Please feel free to tag a pre-medical moderator once the secondary prompt has been posted.

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I received an in-state secondary last Wednesday. The prompts are the same as last year!

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

Hello! Have secondaries to applicants with ties to Nevada been sent out yet? Thank you.

Hello,

We are consistently sending invitations to secondary for those who are Nevada residents and meet minimum metrics along with those from western region states. If you're not from a western region state and do have a tie, please email us so we can review your tie and your file for metric requirements and then manually get you to secondary if you qualify (it's hard to tell from AMCAS sometimes if someone has a tie). [email protected]

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

I received an in-state secondary last Wednesday. The prompts are the same as last year!

There is one change that if you are a re-applicant you will need to do the last optional question box to share progress since reapplication. We do advise reapplicants to also freshen up their secondary essays.

 

[Moab_BASE]

IS secondary received today.

 

[deleted1022805]

Any current students on here who could speak on the program?

 

[Moab_BASE]

IS II received today.

 

[dr.j.a.]

IS II received today.

Did you receive the invite through the portal or email?

 

[Moab_BASE]

Did you receive the invite through the portal or email?

Email

 

[dr.j.a.]

Email

May I ask what day you completed/submitted the secondary?

 

[Moab_BASE]

May I ask what day you completed/submitted the secondary?

Around the 25-26th.

 

[taguylla2]

Any OOS with II?

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

Any current students on here who could speak on the program?

Our ambassadors typically aren't on here, but we do have quite a bit of information on our website and the MSAR database.

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

Interview invitations have begun but please note they continue typically through late November/early December and our school does rolling admissions. So the timing of your interview is not dire/critical. All interviewed applicants stay active with the committee until we get to our final waitlist ranking and do final rejections (typically April). For more information on our process and the schedule please visit Admission Selection Process and Timeline

 

[future_surgeon_]

How are you all going about the timeline? Is it just asking for the timeline on a larger scale not including anything that we did during our time in college? Or can we include the things that we did during college as well?

 

[lilred21]

Hello,

We are consistently sending invitations to secondary for those who are Nevada residents and meet minimum metrics along with those from western region states. If you're not from a western region state and do have a tie, please email us so we can review your tie and your file for metric requirements and then manually get you to secondary if you qualify (it's hard to tell from AMCAS sometimes if someone has a tie). [email protected]

Now that interview invites are being sent out, is it too late to be receiving a secondary invite? I am from a western region state.

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

Now that interview invites are being sent out, is it too late to be receiving a secondary invite? I am from a western region state.

No, secondaries continue to go out through mid-October. An applicant does have to be meeting our minimum requirements for Cumulative GPA, BCPM GPA and MCAT to go to secondary. We are finding that applicants with Gmail accounts may have their secondary invitation email filtered to the "promotions" folder (or spam on other accounts) so please also check there. If you think you should have received an invitation to secondary but didn't, please email us [email protected] and we can verify.

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

How are you all going about the timeline? Is it just asking for the timeline on a larger scale not including anything that we did during our time in college? Or can we include the things that we did during college as well?

For the Secondary essay that asks about timeline, it would be from high school graduation through now, so you can include college activities. Primarily this is an area to show the timespan and explain any gaps if they exist. The experiences portion of AMCAS doesn't always show us the full trajectory from high school through now because it's focused on categories of experience. The secondary portion just lets us see the flow in a more linear fashion. And things can overlap, we understand that (such as being in college and working, etc.)

 

[abostwi2]

II tonight around 6pm! Reapplicant, complete 8/22

 

[Moab_BASE]

For those waiting to do your interview week don’t stress. It has been fun and the informational sessions with current medical students and faculty was super helpful in better understanding the program and what it offers for those that didn’t know much (like me).

 

[MichelAngelo1313]

For those waiting to do your interview week don’t stress. It has been fun and the informational sessions with current medical students and faculty was super helpful in better understanding the program and what it offers for those that didn’t know much (like me).

Was the one-on-one interview pretty chill?

 

[abostwi2]

Was the one-on-one interview pretty chill?

I honestly had a great experience with my interviewer! They had a question bank to work from but the questions left room for deep conversations. No stumpers or trick questions. The 30 minutes went by so quickly. So just relax and remember that they are trying to get to know you. I hope everyone had a similar experience and that you will as well!

 

[E1520]

Was the one-on-one interview pretty chill?

Mine was calm as well. My interviewer was kind and conversational - definitely one of the better interviews I've had.

 

[Moab_BASE]

Mine was calm as well. My interviewer was kind and conversational - definitely one of the better interviews I've had.

+1

 

[anesthesiology]

hi unlv admin any information about the timeline for the sending acceptances? thanks

 

[Moab_BASE]

hi unlv admin any information about the timeline for the sending acceptances? thanks

When I did my interview it seemed like they will start sending acceptances in October…. But we will see.

 

[drpepperx]

Do 1st calls go out this friday?

 

[E1520]

Do 1st calls go out this friday?

I haven't heard anything.

 

[Moab_BASE]

I haven't heard anything.

Me either, but over the last few days I’ve been receiving robocalls with the LV area code so that’s been fantastic….

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

hi unlv admin any information about the timeline for the sending acceptances? thanks

Hello - so our admissions committee meets monthly and we do monthly calls. AMCAS won't allow schools to offer admissions to regular MD prior to October 15th so our committee meets this week. We have rolling admissions and decisions continue for our cohort seats up until March. We build our waitlist in April and then typically finalize our cohort by early June. For more information on the full timeline and operations, please visit: Admission Selection Process and Timeline

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

Do 1st calls go out this friday?

Maybe.... Actually, it will be either Friday or Monday. We have to do a bit of processing after the committee meetings before calling.

 

[anesthesiology]

Maybe.... Actually, it will be either Friday or Monday. We have to do a bit of processing after the committee meetings before calling.

thanks for the update

 

[MichelAngelo1313]

Does UNLV publish how many people need to SOAP per year?

 

[taguylla2]

Hello Everyone and welcome to the 2022-2023 cycle for the Class of 2027 at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Our administrative team watches this forum each year periodically and tries to answer questions or clarify information. If anything is urgent, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected]

Hello! I am an OOS applicant and I have been complete since June 27th. I haven’t heard back anything yet, does this mean that I will not be considered for an interview since it is rolling admissions?

 

[B***scratcha**]

Hello! I am an OOS applicant and I have been complete since June 27th. I haven’t heard back anything yet, does this mean that I will not be considered for an interview since it is rolling admissions?

+1

 

[Moab_BASE]

Hello! I am an OOS applicant and I have been complete since June 27th. I haven’t heard back anything yet, does this mean that I will not be considered for an interview since it is rolling admissions?

I think they said they won’t start OOS until like November or December but I might be thinking of UNR

 

[MichelAngelo1313]

I think they said they won’t start OOS until like November or December but I might be thinking of UNR

UNR said that's their plan for OOS, I have not heard anything about UNLV's plans but they might do the same

 

[Moab_BASE]

Anyone else afraid to venture too far away from their phones today?…… I need to go touch some grass…

 

[mdoriphone]

Been watching phone since 8am 😵‍💫

 

[E1520]

I just got the acceptance call! Interviewed on 9/16

 

[Moab_BASE]

I just got the acceptance call! Interviewed on 9/16

When did they call?

 

[E1520]

When did they call?

I got the initial call around 1 PM.

 

[Moab_BASE]

Well… I guess we didn’t make the cut lol

 

[E1520]

Well… I guess we didn’t make the cut lol

I'm sure they're still making calls. I think they have a lot going on with all the moving to the new medical education building

 

[Moab_BASE]

I also found out my number was wrong on the application when another school tried to call me today… fun times.

 

[drpepperx]

I just got the acceptance call! Interviewed on 9/16

Congratulations! did your portal update at all?

 

[E1520]

Congratulations! did your portal update at all?

No, they said updates will go out in batches.

 

[UNLV Admin 2]

Does UNLV publish how many people need to SOAP per year?

We do not.