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2024-2025 Yale Secondary Essay Prompts:​

2 Required Essays: Please submit answers to the following questions.
Please limit your responses to approximately 500 words each.

Required Essay 1:
Yale School of Medicine values diversity in all its forms. How will your background and experiences contribute to this important focus of our institution and inform your future role as a physician?

Required Essay 2
MD applicants: Please select one of the following questions.
MD/PhD applicants: Please answer question 2 as it pertains to your proposed PhD research.

1- While there is great emphasis on the physician-patient relationship, Yale School of Medicine also emphasizes the importance of training future physicians to care for communities and populations. Describe how your experiences would contribute to this aspect of the mission of the Yale School of Medicine.

2- Research is essential to patient care, and all students at Yale School of Medicine complete a research thesis. Tell us how your research interests, skills and experiences would contribute to scholarship at Yale School of Medicine.

Activities and Achievements (Optional)
If you are not enrolled in college or graduate school classes for the duration of the current academic year, please tell us how you are spending your time. Include both your current and any planned activities prior to enrolling in medical school.

Additional Essay IN CASE you have something new to report since submitting AMCAS
Have there been any updates regarding your activities / achievements / distinctions since completing your AMCAS application, or do you have any important accomplishments you have not yet shared with us here or in your AMCAS application? The Office of Admissions will review your activities / achievements / distinctions in the Experiences section of the AMCAS Application, so you do not need to restate anything included there. We include your AMCAS experiences below for reference.

Optional Essay​

This section is optional. It should be used to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee any important information (personal, academic, or professional) not discussed in other sections of your Yale Secondary Application. (500 word limit)​


These Prompts were updated and added to by me (wysdoc) on July 4th.
PLEASE, people, don't be in such a rush to share the prompts that you give your fellow applicants incomplete or wrong information.




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Does anyone know if they are a little bit lenient on AP credits? I had credit for Gen chem 1&2. I took orgo 1&2, and biochem 1. Did not take other chemistry classes. Same with Cornell’s Gen chem classes and their writing intensive courses requirement (ap credit English 1&2)
 
bananaboatt said:
Does anyone know if they are a little bit lenient on AP credits? I had credit for Gen chem 1&2. I took orgo 1&2, and biochem 1. Did not take other chemistry classes. Same with Cornell’s Gen chem classes and their writing intensive courses requirement (ap credit English 1&2)
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From the Yale website:
U.S. Advanced Placement credits from high school do not themselves satisfy premedical requirements, but advanced college, university courses or institute of technology courses (for which students are made eligible by AP credits) may be substituted for introductory-level courses in each of these subjects.
 
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Mr. Macrophage said:
Prompts?
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Essays (Required)​

Please submit answers to the following questions. Please limit your responses to approximately 500 words each.

Required Essay 1:
Yale School of Medicine values diversity in all its forms. How will your background and experiences contribute to this important focus of our institution and inform your future role as a physician?

Required Essay 2 (please select one of the following):

MD applicants: Please answer either one of the following questions.
MD/PhD applicants: Please answer question 2 as it pertains to your proposed PhD research.

1- While there is great emphasis on the physician-patient relationship, Yale School of Medicine also emphasizes the importance of training future physicians to care for communities and populations. Describe how your experiences would contribute to this aspect of the mission of the Yale School of Medicine.

2- Research is essential to patient care, and all students at Yale School of Medicine complete a research thesis. Tell us how your research interests, skills and experiences would contribute to scholarship at Yale School of Medicine.

Additional Information (Optional)​

This section is optional. It should be used to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee any important information (personal, academic, or professional) not discussed in other sections of your Yale Secondary Application.
Please limit your response to 500 words.
 
jrlybob1 said:

Essays (Required)​

Please submit answers to the following questions. Please limit your responses to approximately 500 words each.

Required Essay 1:
Yale School of Medicine values diversity in all its forms. How will your background and experiences contribute to this important focus of our institution and inform your future role as a physician?

Required Essay 2 (please select one of the following):

MD applicants: Please answer either one of the following questions.
MD/PhD applicants: Please answer question 2 as it pertains to your proposed PhD research.

1- While there is great emphasis on the physician-patient relationship, Yale School of Medicine also emphasizes the importance of training future physicians to care for communities and populations. Describe how your experiences would contribute to this aspect of the mission of the Yale School of Medicine.

2- Research is essential to patient care, and all students at Yale School of Medicine complete a research thesis. Tell us how your research interests, skills and experiences would contribute to scholarship at Yale School of Medicine.

Additional Information (Optional)​

This section is optional. It should be used to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee any important information (personal, academic, or professional) not discussed in other sections of your Yale Secondary Application.
Please limit your response to 500 words.
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Is the gap year essay still there?
 
Mr. Macrophage said:
Is the gap year essay still there?
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Yes, sorry about that.

Activities and Achievements (Optional)​

If you are not enrolled in college or graduate school classes for the duration of the current academic year, please tell us how you are spending your time. Include both your current and any planned activities prior to enrolling in medical school.

A second prompt:

Have there been any updates regarding your activities / achievements / distinctions since completing your AMCAS application, or do you have any important accomplishments you have not yet shared with us here or in your AMCAS application? The Office of Admissions will review your activities / achievements / distinctions in the Experiences section of the AMCAS Application, so you do not need to restate anything included there. We include your AMCAS experiences below for reference.

No listed word count for either
 
Anyone else's link in the email not working for them? It says "the previous page is sending you to an invalid URL." and won't let me open the portal
 
+1 OOS received this morning (7/1) at 7:00AM.
Anyone else think it's actually insane for them to want us to fill out a course list again for their prerequisites? Is my course list from my primary a joke or something?
 
TheDeadrok said:
+1 OOS received this morning (7/1) at 7:00AM.
Anyone else think it's actually insane for them to want us to fill out a course list again for their prerequisites? Is my course list from my primary a joke or something?
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Realize that offices have limited staff. Would you rather they spend time reading your essays, or doing this clerical task?

I want to tell you and others that the offices otherwise wouldn’t do a line by line transcript analysis until probably very late in the cycle- AFTER they have made an admission offer, at many schools. If you found out in May that you didn’t meet all their particular requirements, you would bemoan that you wish they had told you earlier.

Like Nike, “Just Do It”
 
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Is anyone still missing the secondary email? My app was distributed on June 28th but still haven't gotten a secondary yet. I've heard something about secondary waves but don't know what that entails or if it would explain having not received one yet.
 
applyingthiscycle said:
Is anyone still missing the secondary email? My app was distributed on June 28th but still haven't gotten a secondary yet. I've heard something about secondary waves but don't know what that entails or if it would explain having not received one yet.
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You're not alone, I haven't got it either. For other schools I've also seen this where I get the secondary before or after others so it really isn't uncommon
 
Agape_ornis said:
if my general prerequisite classes were done combined, lecture and lab. How do I put that in the course list?
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They have 15 slots for the 15 prereqs so I just added the same course twice and specific it as a lab prereq for one entry and lecture for the other. I don't think either way is more correct than the other though
 
Hi, I was wondering if my school only has two chem lab courses, "General & Organic Chemistry 1 & 2". Does anyone know if there can be an overlap? Like one course to satisfy two prereqs?
 
I have a question about the last (optional) essay. Is it truly optional? Or is this a space where she should plug in another one of our prewritten essays that can show another side of our story? I feel like my application is complete without filling this essay out, but I know that often times adcoms like to see the optional essays be filled out as well. Anyone aware of the answer to this?
 
TheDeadrok said:
I have a question about the last (optional) essay. Is it truly optional? Or is this a space where she should plug in another one of our prewritten essays that can show another side of our story? I feel like my application is complete without filling this essay out, but I know that often times adcoms like to see the optional essays be filled out as well. Anyone aware of the answer to this?
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Don't know if this is the right way to go about it but I felt that their questions captured most of what was important. It states in the prompt that "It should be used to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee any important information (personal, academic, or professional) not discussed in other sections of your Yale Secondary Application," so I understood that as I should only add anything if it truly was very important and was not discussed already in my secondary
 
If I have a 4 credit biology lab course (it was 6 hours lab/week), can I use this to cover both credits of lab from the full 8 credit year? Other than general biology, my institution doesn’t really offer bio course with a lab component other than very, very advanced courses I would never have to take in my major
 
RunnerDad said:
Did Yale change to rolling admissions? According to '23-'24 CycleTrack, all acceptances were sent the same day: Feb. 27, 2024.
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Sorry I meant to say NOT rolling admissions, my appologies for causing you any stress. I was wondering if I could wait until
 
Perhaps silly question: other schools specify and say to not mark a course online if it was online due to the pandemic. Does that apply here? (Most of my prereqs were online due to timing and my school being very slow to go back to in person)
 
zarastars said:
Perhaps silly question: other schools specify and say to not mark a course online if it was online due to the pandemic. Does that apply here? (Most of my prereqs were online due to timing and my school being very slow to go back to in person)
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I marked my online courses (due to the pandemic) as online. What else would you classify them as? They weren't in-person or hybrid if they were online
 
E0001234 said:
I marked my online courses (due to the pandemic) as online. What else would you classify them as? They weren't in-person or hybrid if they were online
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Some schools instruct to mark them as in person if they aren't designated as online on the transcript, as they don't typically accept online prerequisites. Was just seeing what the vibe was, thanks for sharing
 
zarastars said:
Some schools instruct to mark them as in person if they aren't designated as online on the transcript, as they don't typically accept online prerequisites. Was just seeing what the vibe was, thanks for sharing
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I feel like schools will make the connection in seeing that the online courses were during pandemic semesters so it should be okay
 
any thoughts on how to approach research / scholarship at yale question? i devote about half of it to my previous research interests/experience, and then mention a few people i'd be interested in potentially working for (and why), but i still have like 100 words and i'm not sure if i'm answering the prompt, because "scholarship at yale" feels so ambiguous
 
For schools that are rolling admissions like Yale, does the 2 week rule matter as much?
 
wysdoc said:
Not rolling admissions- if they state a deadline meet it anyway
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Sorry meant to say not rolling admission, should I prioritize rolling admissions schools, as long as I get everything in by end of July?
 
redtrain21 said:
Sorry meant to say not rolling admission, should I prioritize rolling admissions schools, as long as I get everything in by end of July?
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Get your secondaries turned in as they come to you and don’t think you have any control over the timing of what the admissions office does, or when
 
redtrain21 said:
Sorry meant to say not rolling admission, should I prioritize rolling admissions schools, as long as I get everything in by end of July?
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Yeah same here I’d prioritize rolling schools first. I’m getting flooded this week 🙁
 
Academic and Research Positions: What's meant by academic positions? Does this include any teaching I've done? Does it only include teaching at the university/a school or could it also be private tutoring?
 
ppl who added Yale after they were transmitted, how long did it take for you to receive their secondary?
 
sup. i have a really cool wonder essay from JHU and want to put it in the important info section if it's allowed. anyone know if it's negative to fill that prompt with non - financial/life concerns/etc?

for reference I wrote about a time I bonded with my mom, so it's a more human / emotional essay. not some financial / covid / rough upbringing type thing.
 
i emailed the admissions office several days ago asking a question about my personal prereq course situation (which I need to submit onto the secondary), and they haven't responded. i've also been calling them every day for the past few days and just been directed to voicemail. anyone know how long it takes for them to get back about application questions - and should i just submit my secondary, or should i wait for a response?
 
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