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2024-2025 Texas A&M Secondary Essay Prompts (unchanged from last year)
Please notice: Question #4 is not "really" optional but it is short-answer
1. As a physician, you never know what type of patient you will serve. From your past experiences, please describe or highlight factors or situations that demonstrate your ability to work with individuals from multicultural communities. (Characters: 3500)
2. The Texas A&M School of Medicine embraces the Aggie Core Values of Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity and Selfless Service. Please elaborate on personal characteristics, values, accomplishments and/or any experiences that you feel will help to demonstrate your potential to contribute to the school and to the profession of medicine. (Characters: 3500)
3. Describe any circumstances indicative of some hardship, such as, but not limited to, financial difficulties, personal or family illness, a medical condition, a death in the immediate family or educational disadvantage not mentioned in your primary application essays. What strategies have you used to address these circumstances? (Characters: 3500)
4. "OPTIONAL" QUESTION: List the area (or areas) of medicine that appeals to you and briefly explain. (Limit your explanation to 50 words or 250 characters total) Do not leave blank. If not applicable, please so indicate. (Characters: 250)
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EnMed Prompts (you will write these IN ADDITION to the regular MD prompts above)
EnMed interviews are IN PERSON
1. Describe what a work week would look like in your ideal future career; what activities would you engage in over the course of that week? (Please be concise and answer the question directly in a technical writing style. 250 word max)
2. List the knowledge, skills, and experience that you have acquired as part of your coursework, then describe how these have prepared you to create innovative medical technologies. Include lab courses, senior design/capstone, and similar hands-on courses, as well as any planned activities. (Please answer this question in list format NOT as an essay or in a creative writing format) (250 words)
3. List the knowledge, skills, and experience you have acquired from extracurricular activities (non-coursework based) such as internships, research, student organizations, work experience, personal projects and hobbies, as well as any planned activities. Then, describe how these have prepared you to create innovative medical technologies. (Please answer this question in list format NOT as an essay or in a creative writing format) (250 words)
4. How will the Engineering Medicine program meet your career goals and aspirations in ways that a traditional MD program would not? (Please be concise and answer the question directly in a technical writing style. 250 word max)
5. Briefly describe any entrepreneurial activities you have participated in that showcase your passion for innovation (if none, leave this blank). (Please be concise and answer the question directly in a technical writing style. 250 word max)
6. Will you have completed an undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science by matriculation to EnMed?
Yes/No
7. Will you have completed a graduate degree in engineering or computer science by matriculation to EnMed?
Yes/No
8. Will you have completed a graduate degree in a discipline other than engineering or computer science by matriculation, excluding a pre-med post-bacc program? (250 words max, not required to answer if it doesn't apply to you)
Good luck to all applying!
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Please notice: Question #4 is not "really" optional but it is short-answer
1. As a physician, you never know what type of patient you will serve. From your past experiences, please describe or highlight factors or situations that demonstrate your ability to work with individuals from multicultural communities. (Characters: 3500)
2. The Texas A&M School of Medicine embraces the Aggie Core Values of Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity and Selfless Service. Please elaborate on personal characteristics, values, accomplishments and/or any experiences that you feel will help to demonstrate your potential to contribute to the school and to the profession of medicine. (Characters: 3500)
3. Describe any circumstances indicative of some hardship, such as, but not limited to, financial difficulties, personal or family illness, a medical condition, a death in the immediate family or educational disadvantage not mentioned in your primary application essays. What strategies have you used to address these circumstances? (Characters: 3500)
4. "OPTIONAL" QUESTION: List the area (or areas) of medicine that appeals to you and briefly explain. (Limit your explanation to 50 words or 250 characters total) Do not leave blank. If not applicable, please so indicate. (Characters: 250)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
EnMed Prompts (you will write these IN ADDITION to the regular MD prompts above)
EnMed interviews are IN PERSON
1. Describe what a work week would look like in your ideal future career; what activities would you engage in over the course of that week? (Please be concise and answer the question directly in a technical writing style. 250 word max)
2. List the knowledge, skills, and experience that you have acquired as part of your coursework, then describe how these have prepared you to create innovative medical technologies. Include lab courses, senior design/capstone, and similar hands-on courses, as well as any planned activities. (Please answer this question in list format NOT as an essay or in a creative writing format) (250 words)
3. List the knowledge, skills, and experience you have acquired from extracurricular activities (non-coursework based) such as internships, research, student organizations, work experience, personal projects and hobbies, as well as any planned activities. Then, describe how these have prepared you to create innovative medical technologies. (Please answer this question in list format NOT as an essay or in a creative writing format) (250 words)
4. How will the Engineering Medicine program meet your career goals and aspirations in ways that a traditional MD program would not? (Please be concise and answer the question directly in a technical writing style. 250 word max)
5. Briefly describe any entrepreneurial activities you have participated in that showcase your passion for innovation (if none, leave this blank). (Please be concise and answer the question directly in a technical writing style. 250 word max)
6. Will you have completed an undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science by matriculation to EnMed?
Yes/No
7. Will you have completed a graduate degree in engineering or computer science by matriculation to EnMed?
Yes/No
8. Will you have completed a graduate degree in a discipline other than engineering or computer science by matriculation, excluding a pre-med post-bacc program? (250 words max, not required to answer if it doesn't apply to you)
Good luck to all applying!
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