2025-2026 Alice L Walton

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2025-2026 Alice L Walton Secondary Essay Prompts: (question 3 has changed since last year)
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1. Describe how AWSOM’s mission and values align with your personal and professional goals. Please include how you believe AWSOM will help you develop into the kind of person and physician you hope to become.

2. The Admissions Committee holistically evaluates a range of student qualities and life experiences that complement demonstrated academic excellence. What unique qualities or individual lived experiences do you possess that make you uniquely suited to become a physician?

3. Describe your experiences engaging in the community, and how those experiences have prepared you for a future as a physician.

4. Trust and rapport are essential in your day-to-day interactions with people. How do you cultivate a relationship with a person who may be very different from you?

5. Whole health considers the needs of the whole person with the goal of preventing disease, improving health outcomes, and sustaining wellness. How do you practice whole health in your personal life, and how do you aspire to incorporate whole health principles when caring for the community?

6. (Optional: Gap Year(s) if applicable): If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please tell us why you made this decision and what you will be doing or have done during this gap time.

7. (Optional): Is there any additional information not included elsewhere in your application you would like the admissions committee to know?


AWSOM has a minimum GPA 3.4 and minimum MCAT 500.
US citizens or PR only


Good luck to all applying!

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Note: Tuition is waived for the next four entering classes (2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029). However, the remainder of the cost of attendance may need to be covered with private loans until they get full accreditation.

A profile for their inaugural class will be published after matriculation is complete (likely in August/September).

EDITED: added 2029 class to have tuition waived.
 
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I missed the webinar and the school's greyed out for me in AMCAS. It said to check MSAR for school requirements but I don't see anything that'd grey it out. Did they say anything about this?
 
I missed the webinar and the school's greyed out for me in AMCAS. It said to check MSAR for school requirements but I don't see anything that'd grey it out. Did they say anything about this?
I'm not sure why you can't pick AWSOM on AMCAS. You'll have to ask AMCAS.

In general, they interviewed 200 out of a pool of 2000 (quick start) for their small class of 48 (I think). 30% from Arkansas and 15-20% from surrounding/neighboring states. Recording was done for internal training and not expected to be pushed to the public.
 
Received secondary OOS on Friday @wysdoc

Same as last year except for Q3

1. Describe how AWSOM’s mission and values align with your personal and professional goals. Please include how you believe AWSOM will help you develop into the kind of person and physician you hope to become.

2. The Admissions Committee holistically evaluates a range of student qualities and life experiences that complement demonstrated academic excellence. What unique qualities or individual lived experiences do you possess that make you uniquely suited to become a physician?

3. Describe your experiences engaging in the community, and how those experiences have prepared you for a future as a physician.

4. Trust and rapport are essential in your day-to-day interactions with people. How do you cultivate a relationship with a person who may be very different from you?

5. Whole health considers the needs of the whole person with the goal of preventing disease, improving health outcomes, and sustaining wellness. How do you practice whole health in your personal life, and how do you aspire to incorporate whole health principles when caring for the community?

6. (Optional: Gap Year(s) if applicable): If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please tell us why you made this decision and what you will be doing or have done during this gap time.

7. (Optional): Is there any additional information not included elsewhere in your application you would like the admissions committee to know?
 
REMINDER: This school has a strict 3.4 cutoff.

3.399 and you would be rejected instantly.
 
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