2024-2025 SUNY Upstate (Norton)

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Please share the Secondary essay prompts when available and tag a moderator.

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1. If you earned your baccalaureate degree prior to this past June, please provide a brief statement indicating your plans for the upcoming academic year
2. Which medical specialty do you currently plan to pursue?
3. You might consider yourself disadvantaged if you grew up in an area that was medically or underserved or had insufficient access to educational opportunities. Do you consider yourself within this description? If you answer Yes please explain your particular circumstances regarding why you consider yourself a disadvantaged applicant.
4. Describe any ties or meaningful experiences you have had related to Central New York or SUNY Upstate Medical University. (1800 character spaces or less, please type N/A if not applicable)
5. If you are a re-applicant, what steps have you taken to strengthen your candidacy since your last application? (Please type N/A if not applicable, 1800 character spaces or less)
6. What experiences have you had with underserved communities/populations? What have you learned from these experiences? (1800 character spaces or less)
7. The Norton College of Medicine is committed to improving the healthcare of Central New York. How do your career plans advance this mission? (1800 character spaces or less)
8. How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and The Norton College of Medicine? Limit the response to 300 words or less.
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They updated the prompts to only have 1 diversity prompt
 
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It looks like the last 3 aren't required. Maybe an error on their part?
 
Does SUNY Upstate screen before secondaries or not?

+ 1 INTL here
 
This is a silly question: When it asks about citizenship, does "US-Citizen-Non-resident" mean you are not a resident of New York State?
 
1. If you earned your baccalaureate degree prior to this past June, please provide a brief statement indicating your plans for the upcoming academic year
2. Which medical specialty do you currently plan to pursue?
3. You might consider yourself disadvantaged if you grew up in an area that was medically or underserved or had insufficient access to educational opportunities. Do you consider yourself within this description? If you answer Yes please explain your particular circumstances regarding why you consider yourself a disadvantaged applicant.
4. Describe any ties or meaningful experiences you have had related to Central New York or SUNY Upstate Medical University. (1800 character spaces or less, please type N/A if not applicable)
5. Upstate Medical University is strongly committed to providing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for the patients we serve and all who work at, study at, or visit our campus. How will your background and experiences add to our inclusive culture and how will this focus influence your future role as a physician? Please note this response has an 1800-character limit.
6. If you are a re-applicant, what steps have you taken to strengthen your candidacy since your last application? (Please type N/A if not applicable, 1800 character spaces or less)
7. What experiences have you had with underserved communities/populations? What have you learned from these experiences? (1800 character spaces or less)
8. The Norton College of Medicine is committed to improving the healthcare of Central New York. How do your career plans advance this mission? How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and The Norton College of Medicine? (1800 character spaces or less)
9. How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and The Norton College of Medicine? Limit the response to 300 words or less.
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Does the specialty question require an explanation?
 
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Did anyone submit, pay, and then re-enter the secondary portal to see no submission record?
 
"If you are a re-applicant, what steps have you taken to strengthen your candidacy since your last application? (Please type N/A if not applicable, 1800 character spaces or less)"
How did you guys interpret this? Re-applicant in general or re-applicant to the school?
 
How are you guys approaching the question “The Norton College of Medicine is committed to improving the healthcare of Central New York. How do your career plans advance this mission? (1800 character)”?
 
How are you guys approaching the question “The Norton College of Medicine is committed to improving the healthcare of Central New York. How do your career plans advance this mission? (1800 character)”?
I assumed it was an indirect question asking if you want to practice in Central New York and how you want to improve the healthcare there.
 
When they say Citizenship: US Citizen - Nonresident. Does this mean i'm just US citizen and not a permanent resident/green card? Or should I select US citizen- Resident? (born and raised in USA..parents citizens, etc)
 
When they say Citizenship: US Citizen - Nonresident. Does this mean i'm just US citizen and not a permanent resident/green card? Or should I select US citizen- Resident? (born and raised in USA..parents citizens, etc)
I was wondering the same thing; I think it means you are a US Citizen, non-NY State resident. Would love to know what other people think though because I was also confused.
 
Anybody willing to give my responses a review? Just a few words.
If you choose to assist me with this: Please be honest, I can take criticism. Hoping to submit within the next two days
 
Is anyone still waiting for a secondary?? My app was verified before 6/28 and I'm instate and have heard nothing from this school :// Do they screen for secondaries or something?
 
is anyone experiencing issues logging into the portal? i've tried two browsers (safari and chrome) and keep getting a 403 Forbidden error that says:

"The request cannot be processed because this resource does not support Cross Origin Sharing requests, or the request Origin is not authorized to access this resource. If ords is being reverse proxied ensure the front end server is propagating the host name, for mod_proxy ensure ProxyPreserveHost is set to On"
 
is anyone experiencing issues logging into the portal? i've tried two browsers (safari and chrome) and keep getting a 403 Forbidden error that says:

"The request cannot be processed because this resource does not support Cross Origin Sharing requests, or the request Origin is not authorized to access this resource. If ords is being reverse proxied ensure the front end server is propagating the host name, for mod_proxy ensure ProxyPreserveHost is set to On"
I did on chrome but then it worked on Microsoft Edge. I haven't tried since the weekend though
 
is anyone experiencing issues logging into the portal? i've tried two browsers (safari and chrome) and keep getting a 403 Forbidden error that says:

"The request cannot be processed because this resource does not support Cross Origin Sharing requests, or the request Origin is not authorized to access this resource. If ords is being reverse proxied ensure the front end server is propagating the host name, for mod_proxy ensure ProxyPreserveHost is set to On"
Yeah, I did this morning. I cleared my cache and retried, then it worked.
 
is anyone experiencing issues logging into the portal? i've tried two browsers (safari and chrome) and keep getting a 403 Forbidden error that says:

"The request cannot be processed because this resource does not support Cross Origin Sharing requests, or the request Origin is not authorized to access this resource. If ords is being reverse proxied ensure the front end server is propagating the host name, for mod_proxy ensure ProxyPreserveHost is set to On"
was able to get it to work by going on incognito mode! but oddly still does not work on regular chrome even when i clear all cache and cookies
 
is anyone experiencing issues logging into the portal? i've tried two browsers (safari and chrome) and keep getting a 403 Forbidden error that says:

"The request cannot be processed because this resource does not support Cross Origin Sharing requests, or the request Origin is not authorized to access this resource. If ords is being reverse proxied ensure the front end server is propagating the host name, for mod_proxy ensure ProxyPreserveHost is set to On"
Cleared for me when going from a browser with adblock to an unmodified safari window
 
Does anyone know if the re-applicant question is specifically for their school, or to any med school? I am a re-applicant but I didn't apply to this school last cycle.
 
Final list of prompts below. Can someone please double-check and confirm with me? Their portal is so wack

1. If you are a re-applicant, what steps have you taken to strengthen your candidacy since your last application? (Please type N/A if not applicable, 1800 character spaces or less)
2. What experiences have you had with underserved communities/populations? What have you learned from these experiences? (1800 character spaces or less)
3. The Norton College of Medicine is committed to improving the healthcare of Central New York. How do your career plans advance this mission? (1800 character spaces or less)
4. How will you contribute to the diversity of your medical school class and The Norton College of Medicine? Please note this response has an 1800-character limit.
 
Does anyone know if the re-applicant question is specifically for their school, or to any med school? I am a re-applicant but I didn't apply to this school last cycle.
I responded for medical school in general. I had the same question and no one seemed to know. So I erred on the side of caution
 
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