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2024-2025 UC San Francisco Secondary Essay Prompts:

Interview information:
Applicants are interviewed by invitation only. Interviews are scheduled from October to mid-February (days vary). For the 2024-25 interview season, we will conduct interviews via zoom.
If you will be out of the country - provide additional info below (e.g. dates, best way to contact, etc.) (300 characters)

Additional Information:
1. If you wish to update or expand upon your activities, you may provide additional information below. (500 words)

2. If you are 2023 or earlier college graduate, please use the space below to tell us what you have done since completing your undergraduate degree. (350 words)

3. 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. (500 words) (350 words)>>> updated 8/20/2024

4. UCSF PRIDE values serve as a guiding light for institutional life and activities. Briefly describe how you will contribute and support one of our PRIDE values that is consistent with your goals or life experience. (500 words)
(Link to UCSF PRIDE)>> PRIDE Values | Office of Diversity and Outreach UCSF

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HonorPlant said:
Can someone help me understand this requirement? I have a year of chemistry with lab and a year of orgranic chem. I did not take organic chem with lab though. Is the requirement generally speaking that I should have 1 year of chem with lab and 1 semester or organic chemistry or 1 year of chemistry and that includes 1 semester of organic chem with organic chem lab?

One academic year (2 semesters or 3 quarters) of college-level Chemistry, including at least one semester of Organic Chemistry with laboratory. This may include Biochemistry.
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I think it wants you to have one semester of organic chemistry in the laboratory. Most schools require that you take the lab component of organic chemistry, with most requiring at least a year's worth of Ochem with lab (some allowing substitution with biochem). I think a way that would possibly allow you to circumvent this requirement is if your school did not offer the lab component. However, I feel like that would be a stretch. Your best bet would be to email the department and see if any of the courses you took may substitute the requirement, sometimes that works. Otherwise, if you are still in college, could you take the lab component?
 
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+1 OOS today at 4:15 PM

Here are the prompts @wysdoc:

Applicants are interviewed by invitation only. Interviews are scheduled from October to mid-February (days vary). For the 2024-25 interview season, we will conduct interviews via zoom. I will be out of the country - provide additional info below (e.g. dates, best way to contact, etc.) (300 characters)

Additional Information​

If you wish to update or expand upon your activities, you may provide additional information below. (500 words)

If you are 2023 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. (500 words)

UCSF PRIDE values serve as a guiding light for institutional life and activities. Briefly describe how you will contribute and support one of our PRIDE values that is consistent with your goals or life experience. (500 words)
 
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wait so if we are a 2024 graduate, then we don't talk about our gap year activities for Q2?
 
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If I haven’t gotten a secondary yet is that cause for concern? I am OOS and applied day 1, verified early June. Applied MD PhD tho idk if that makes a difference for the secondary timing.
 
I think the 2023 graduate thing may honestly be a typo because if you look at last year's secondary it says the same thing so they were asking your plans for the upcoming academic year
 
MSTP-specific prompts:

Please describe your most recent research project, its importance and how it captured your interest. (750 words max)

Please list publications, honors and presentations resulting from your research experiences. (750 words max)

Please describe briefly your reasons for applying to the UCSF MSTP. (500 words max)
 
SnowflakeLane said:
MSTP-specific prompts:

Please describe your most recent research project, its importance and how it captured your interest. (750 words max)

Please list publications, honors and presentations resulting from your research experiences. (750 words max)

Please describe briefly your reasons for applying to the UCSF MSTP. (500 words max)
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When were you verified? Are you IS/OOS?
 
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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If I do not identify as a part of a marginalized group, should my whole answer just be "No"?
 
mgre said:
I'm answering 1 and 4. Also, 75 schools... am I reading right?
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Got it I am doing the same. And yep..i'm just crazy. I decided if money wasn't a problem, I would do as much as possible.
 
plz don't roast me for this question
but how are y'all answering #1? like expand on my activities how...? All my activities? or just relevant ones to UCSF?
 
doctorellewoods said:
plz don't roast me for this question
but how are y'all answering #1? like expand on my activities how...? All my activities? or just relevant ones to UCSF?
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its optional for people who may have started new activities
 
Is anyone also applying to UC San Diego, the marginalized group prompt is exactly the same and I'm wondering if I just copy and paste my response that's ok or if I'm going to be somehow flagged for like plagiarizing myself lol
 
Grass1 said:
Is anyone also applying to UC San Diego, the marginalized group prompt is exactly the same and I'm wondering if I just copy and paste my response that's ok or if I'm going to be somehow flagged for like plagiarizing myself lol
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You’re safe, they are your own words and one school does not get to read another school’s secondary essays
 
thenamereggy said:
+1 IS today. Anyone know how we should be answering the first question?
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From what I can guess I would not treat this as an optional question (even though it definitely seems like it), personally I'm going to try to give some stories about my activities that I wasn't able to use in the primary and also try to talk a bit about what my goals are in the future and how that ties into my experiences


edit: I misread your question as "if" we should be answering it lol but I hope this still is helpful
 
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