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2024-2025 Utah Secondary Essay Prompts: Please note the due date stated on your secondary invitation!!

1. SFESOM Essay: What motivates you to pursue and complete your medical education at the SFESOM mission-driven, medical doctor program? (300 Words)

2. Healthcare Needs Essay: Describe how access to healthcare has impacted you, your community, and/or communities you have served? What might be some viable solutions? (300 Words)


Edit: There is an additional essay if you've participated in any of the Utah Pathways programs
Please share more about your experience in the pathway program(s) and how these experience(s) have helped you prepare for medical school (300 words)

Please note that AFTER YOU SUMBIT YOUR SECONDARY, no further updates are accepted to your application.


Good luck to all applying!
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Reminder: PREview is REQUIRED for this program. Those invited to interview should prepare for both MMI and traditional formats.
 
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I saw on reddit that secondaries have been sent out. Can someone post the essay prompts?
 
I saw that too but didn’t get one? Weird cause I was verified last week, have my preview score, and have all my LOR submitted already.
 
I saw that too but didn’t get one? Weird cause I was verified last week, have my preview score, and have all my LOR submitted already.
Me too. I wouldn't stress too hard, they'll probably come next week
 
OOS Secondary received 6/28.

SFESOM Essay​

What motivates you to pursue and complete your medical education at the SFESOM mission-driven, medical doctor program? (300 Words)

Healthcare Needs Essay​

Describe how access to healthcare has impacted you, your community, and/or communities you have served? What might be some viable solutions? (300 Words)

Edit: There is an additional essay if you've participated in any of the Utah Pathways program below
Please share more about your experience in the pathway program(s) and how these experience(s) have helped you prepare for medical school
 
In my portal it says that my PREview exam is still not received despite taking it back in March. Is this something I should email admissions about?
 
In my portal it says that my PREview exam is still not received despite taking it back in March. Is this something I should email admissions about?
I took mine last year but it also says not received. Might just be something that is received after submitting the secondary?
 
Has anyone figured out the preview not being received yet?
I emailed them and they said it was an AMP error that they were working on fixing. My portal got updated with my preview exam like 3 days after submitting.
 
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Anyone know if applying RUUTE can help your chances of getting an interview or if it's a completely separate thing?
 
Anyone know if applying RUUTE can help your chances of getting an interview or if it's a completely separate thing?
I was told it doesn't impact it, they are considered separately from the admissions decision.
 
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Is it common for OOS people to get secondary invitations to this school? I heard they have a very strong in state bias?
 
Just wondering if anyone has any advice or insight. I am IS, went here for undergrad, currently work here, and have average stats. Everything is submitted on AMCAS, letters assigned, preview done, and I was verified over 2 weeks ago. But I haven't gotten a secondary for the U??
 
Just wondering if anyone has any advice or insight. I am IS, went here for undergrad, currently work here, and have average stats. Everything is submitted on AMCAS, letters assigned, preview done, and I was verified over 2 weeks ago. But I haven't gotten a secondary for the U??
I would reach out to them they said at an info session that everyone who meets the minimums for mcat and gpa gets a secondary
 
Website says interview invites start in July. That’s starting to seem unlikely. Anyone know how it went in years past?
 
Website says interview invites start in July. That’s starting to seem unlikely. Anyone know how it went in years past?
Last year they started sending invited mid August
 
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OOS Secondary Received and Submitted today
Decided to add this school today so :shrug:
 
Anyone know if applying RUUTE can help your chances of getting an interview or if it's a completely separate thing?
It doesn't directly help as far as I'm aware (current MS2). I think it could help in the sense that they are looking for a certain type of student to come to their school, since they want students who they think will work primary care in rural Utah, but I don't think signing up for RUUTE itself will benefit your application. They never asked me about it and it never came up again during the admissions process.

For what it's worth, many people that signed up for it ended up dropping it after getting in. I had signed up for it because I was interested in the under-served aspect, but they are mostly focused on the rural part.
 
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Is it common for OOS people to get secondary invitations to this school? I heard they have a very strong in state bias?
They have slots for students with different backgrounds. There are 90 slots for Utah residents, 10 slots for non-residents who went to a Utah school, 10 slots for Idaho residents, and 15 slots for non-residents. If you are a non-resident, you are competing with all of the other non-residents for one of those 15 slots, but not with any of the in-state applicants.

 
In state interview invite now. Complete 7/9
 
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+1 IS interview invite. LM 72 complete 7/6
 
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Congrats guys! Good luck on your interviews. We will be there together but not know who is who lol
 
Is the secondary app deadline inclusive? e.g. do we have up till midnight of the stated day, or midnight the day before?
 
OOS II earlier today. LM 83. Strong ties to the state.
 
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Good luck to everyone tomorrow! Interview szn (with the U) begins!
 
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Hello all of you cuties I met today. I hope all of your interviews went well, and I look forward to someday working with y'all! WE GOT THIS!
 
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Anyone know how much acceptances the U usually gives in October? I know they do accept but just wondering if it’s only a few people
 
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Anyone know how much acceptances the U usually gives in October? I know they do accept but just wondering if it’s only a few people
Very few, then a few more in December, most in February/March based on being in SDN last year and then talking with my classmates there as a new M1
 
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+1 IS II 😭 Secondary submitted 7/1 LM 72.
 
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Dear Utah, please send us interview invites soon 🙏
 
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Dear Utah, please send us interview invites soon 🙏
I feel like this sub has been quiet for utah this year. Looking at last years thread, there were four pages of posts by this date. We are still on page 1. Maybe that means they are just being slow with invites this year. Hoping you get one!
 
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