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2025-2026 Brown Secondary Essay Prompts

**There appear to be some typos with regards to the application year (ie listing 2024-2025 instead of 2025-2026). With this caveat, please keep an eye out if Brown addresses this through an e-mail**

1. Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle? (Assume they meant 2025-2026) 500 characters

NOTE: Interviews occur on Thursday’s and/or Friday’s beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any significant limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. You may use the text box below to explain your limited availability. (if none, leave blank)

2. Summarize your activities during the 2024-2025 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (Again, I think they meant 2025-2026) 2000 characters

3. How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community? 2000 characters

4. Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so. 3000 characters

Good luck to all applying!

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Received an invitation for the secondary, but they left out the Brown ID needed to activate your account. IT department said they are working on it though!
 
MusicalsandMed said:
Received an invitation for the secondary, but they left out the Brown ID needed to activate your account. IT department said they are working on it though!
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Did they fix this, if so would you be able to post the prompts please?
 
1. Do you have significant limitations on your interview availability for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle? (Assume they meant 2025-2026) 500 characters
NOTE: Interviews occur on Thursday’s and/or Friday’s beginning in mid-September and finishing in February. Please detail any significant limitations on your availability during this time, such as international travel, work or courses. You may use the text box below to explain your limited availability. (if none, leave blank)
2. Summarize your activities during the 2024-2025 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career. (Again, I think they meant 2025-2026) 2000 characters
3. How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community? 2000 characters
4. Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so. 3000 characters
@chilly_md
 
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I logged onto the Brown secondaries site, and the top left corner the name of the applicant was not my name, and it seems the applicant has already filled in some parts of the application. It seems the site's bugged with a different applicant logged in, and when I try to log out it won't let me.
 
jknows said:
I logged onto the Brown secondaries site, and the top left corner the name of the applicant was not my name, and it seems the applicant has already filled in some parts of the application. It seems the site's bugged with a different applicant logged in, and when I try to log out it won't let me.
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Tried logging in again through a different browser and it seems my account information is linked to the other student's account (logging in with my credentials takes me to their login). Will call Brown tomorrow about this. Is anyone else having these issues?
 
Verified in early June, still no secondary. Should I email them?
 
What would you put in the Alternative Courses prompt? Do you just simply put some extra coursework or treat it like another essay prompt to talk about research and stuff?
 
Does a research experience count as non-academic. I want to use story when i was during research for question #4 but am afraid research may be considered academic.
 
john_doey said:
Does a research experience count as non-academic. I want to use story when i was during research for question #4 but am afraid research may be considered academic.
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Research is academic, yes.
 
lukeocyte said:
my portal says "Summarize your activities during this academic year." safe to assume they mean 25-26 right?
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I think it does mean 25-26, but I submitted a response this when the portal said "2024-2025," which I believe was outdated. Hopefully they don't penalize for those that answered the original prompt.
 
Is it okay for the essay on "Reflect on a non-academic situation when you had to change course, and how you did so" to be about something general or should it be a specific instance?
 
aryabrooks said:
Same. Still nothing.
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They replied to an email I sent :

"You should receive the secondary application information by the end of this week. There was a delay sending out secondaries due to a glitch in our system. "
 
Drale25 said:
They replied to an email I sent :

"You should receive the secondary application information by the end of this week. There was a delay sending out secondaries due to a glitch in our system. "
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That makes me feel a little bit better. Still waiting on mine too since I applied late.
 
Namingishard said:
What would you put in the Alternative Courses prompt? Do you just simply put some extra coursework or treat it like another essay prompt to talk about research and stuff?
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I also had this question. Would it be fine to put N/A if I fulfilled the competencies through my courses already, or should I describe my research experience? I wasn't sure if this was like a *not really optional* optional question.
 
plantainchip said:
I also had this question. Would it be fine to put N/A if I fulfilled the competencies through my courses already, or should I describe my research experience? I wasn't sure if this was like a *not really optional* optional question.
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Putting N/A is probably best; I think it's best to be mindful of their time and not be paranoid/ include information they are not asking for.
 
I'm stuck on the "non-academic time you had to change course" essay. The only thing I can think of is one time when I was doing an informed consent with a patient and since I was very new, I kinda stumbled and didn't spend enough time with him and he got frustrated. I used this example to talk about what I learned about how to interact with patients in research (and more broadly) and how I fixed the situation. Then I went into a more broad discussion of the barriers to research that I noticed in my work and how I made efforts to change that.

Is that too academic? Would they reject me for it? My only other story is when I was trying to help a friend struggling with mental illness to the point where it started weighing on me and I had to learn to step back. But my entire app is already super mental health/emotions heavy, so I really wanted to highlight a different aspect.
 
failingatlife09 said:
I'm stuck on the "non-academic time you had to change course" essay. The only thing I can think of is one time when I was doing an informed consent with a patient and since I was very new, I kinda stumbled and didn't spend enough time with him and he got frustrated. I used this example to talk about what I learned about how to interact with patients in research (and more broadly) and how I fixed the situation. Then I went into a more broad discussion of the barriers to research that I noticed in my work and how I made efforts to change that.

Is that too academic? Would they reject me for it? My only other story is when I was trying to help a friend struggling with mental illness to the point where it started weighing on me and I had to learn to step back. But my entire app is already super mental health/emotions heavy, so I really wanted to highlight a different aspect.
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Have you ever had to move? Or had an injury? Or when you thought you were going to choose one job, but then decided on another because of xyz? Or had to leave a job? Have you ever been doing one of your hobbies and then had to do something differently than usual? Like say you loved baking and you messed up a recipe, but stayed calm and fixed it somehow. Maybe you were in a relationship that didn't turn out how you thought, and then your life changed.

It can be really anything that doesn't have to do with academics.
 
failingatlife09 said:
I'm stuck on the "non-academic time you had to change course" essay. The only thing I can think of is one time when I was doing an informed consent with a patient and since I was very new, I kinda stumbled and didn't spend enough time with him and he got frustrated. I used this example to talk about what I learned about how to interact with patients in research (and more broadly) and how I fixed the situation. Then I went into a more broad discussion of the barriers to research that I noticed in my work and how I made efforts to change that.

Is that too academic? Would they reject me for it? My only other story is when I was trying to help a friend struggling with mental illness to the point where it started weighing on me and I had to learn to step back. But my entire app is already super mental health/emotions heavy, so I really wanted to highlight a different aspect.
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Echoing what musicalsandmed said! I wrote about vulnerablity and learning to show my love for others openly!
 
failingatlife09 said:
I'm stuck on the "non-academic time you had to change course" essay. The only thing I can think of is one time when I was doing an informed consent with a patient and since I was very new, I kinda stumbled and didn't spend enough time with him and he got frustrated. I used this example to talk about what I learned about how to interact with patients in research (and more broadly) and how I fixed the situation. Then I went into a more broad discussion of the barriers to research that I noticed in my work and how I made efforts to change that.

Is that too academic? Would they reject me for it? My only other story is when I was trying to help a friend struggling with mental illness to the point where it started weighing on me and I had to learn to step back. But my entire app is already super mental health/emotions heavy, so I really wanted to highlight a different aspect.
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If you're having trouble thinking of times you were wrong, mistreated someone, had an unhealthy outlook on life, made a dumb decision, etc.-- it might be a sign to do more self-reflection, unless you really are perfect. 😉
 
chilly_md said:
3. How will your unique attributes, life experiences, and interests add to The Warren Alpert Medical School community? 2000 characters
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maybe im overthinking but is this like a diversity essay? the wording is gettting me like "add" to the community
 
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