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2025-2026 FIU Secondary Essay Prompts:

1. Miami is a vibrant and multicultural, multilingual city. You will be exposed to cultures and languages different than your own while living and studying in this city. Please explain in detail an experience in which you collaborated, worked, or were exposed to backgrounds that were different than your own. Please describe the impact the experience had on you. (1200 characters)

2. Why did you choose to apply to FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine? (1200 characters)

3. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced. If you sought guidance, support, or resources, describe how it helped you? Focus on what you learned about yourself and how you think it will help you face new challenges. (1200 characters)

4. What do you think will be the most rewarding and challenging part of practicing medicine in the future? (1200 characters)

5. Use this area to explain any exception to the prerequisites at your institution (1000 characters)

6. Is there any additional information about your academic record that you would like the Admissions Committee to know? Please include any academic difficulties or course withdrawals (1000 characters)

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Hello!
What is this prompt for?
Use this area to explain any exception to the prerequisites at your institution. (1,000 characters max)

I did W from calc 1 in semester 1 but retook and got an A, and also a C in Chem 1 in semester 1.
Do I use this prompt to explain that? Like I don't fully understand this prompt.
 
would anyone who received a secondary be willing to send the prompts? thank you!
 
1. Miami is a vibrant and multicultural, multilingual city. You will be exposed to cultures and languages different than your own while living and studying in this city. Please explain in detail an experience in which you collaborated, worked, or were exposed to backgrounds that were different than your own. Please describe the impact the experience had on you.

2. Why did you choose to apply to FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine?

3. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced. If you sought guidance, support, or resources, describe how it helped you? Focus on what you learned about yourself and how you think it will help you face new challenges.

4. What do you think will be the most rewarding and challenging part of practicing medicine in the future?

5. Use this area to explain any exception to the prerequisites at your institution (1000 characters)

6. Is there any additional information about your academic record that you would like the Admissions Committee to know? Please include any academic difficulties or course withdrawals (1000 characters)

Same as last year
 
Dcim180! said:
1. Miami is a vibrant and multicultural, multilingual city. You will be exposed to cultures and languages different than your own while living and studying in this city. Please explain in detail an experience in which you collaborated, worked, or were exposed to backgrounds that were different than your own. Please describe the impact the experience had on you.

2. Why did you choose to apply to FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine?

3. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced. If you sought guidance, support, or resources, describe how it helped you? Focus on what you learned about yourself and how you think it will help you face new challenges.

4. What do you think will be the most rewarding and challenging part of practicing medicine in the future?

5. Use this area to explain any exception to the prerequisites at your institution (1000 characters)

6. Is there any additional information about your academic record that you would like the Admissions Committee to know? Please include any academic difficulties or course withdrawals (1000 characters)

Same as last year
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Thanks @Dcim180!
are all the character counts 1000?
 
Use this area to explain any exception to the prerequisites at your institution. ?

what does this mean?
 
What do you think will be the most rewarding and challenging part of practicing medicine in the future? 1200 characters

Is this asking about the future of medicine and the rewards/challenges of that or asking what I will find most rewarding/challenge in the future as a physician? Confused here.

Ex) if it is asking for future of medicine and its rewards/challenges: can talk about innovation, data science, AI
Ex) if asking about what I will find most challenging/rewarding in the future as a physician: can talk about patient care or administrative burdens

pls lmk. confused as fook here
 
kevindurant98 said:
What do you think will be the most rewarding and challenging part of practicing medicine in the future? 1200 characters

Is this asking about the future of medicine and the rewards/challenges of that or asking what I will find most rewarding/challenge in the future as a physician? Confused here.

Ex) if it is asking for future of medicine and its rewards/challenges: can talk about innovation, data science, AI
Ex) if asking about what I will find most challenging/rewarding in the future as a physician: can talk about patient care or administrative burdens

pls lmk. confused as fook here
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"What do you think"?
Make your context clear from the answer you write.
 
chilly_md said:
1. Miami is a vibrant and multicultural, multilingual city. You will be exposed to cultures and languages different than your own while living and studying in this city. Please explain in detail an experience in which you collaborated, worked, or were exposed to backgrounds that were different than your own. Please describe the impact the experience had on you. (1200 characters)
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"Experience" here is singular. But does this mean a singular moment or can it encompass a bunch of moments/times, as long as they're contained within a single work/activity experience, such as an activity I listed in my primary application? Eg: my "experience" would be my hospital volunteering but I would talk about different moments and different lessons I learned/how I was impacted etc.
 
Apologies I forgot to post my obligatory:
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OOS II LM 71.6 and 651 admit score. 4th Q Casper and 8 Preview. secondary submitted 7/16 and II 8/19
Feeling beyond blessed!
 
question, the "Are you a re-applicant to medical school?" question, are they referring to specifically to FIU or to medical school generally? I am a re-applicant but i did not apply to FIU last year since I didn't think I would get in, so will they see my old application? Not sure what to put here.
 
studyingallday said:
question, the "Are you a re-applicant to medical school?" question, are they referring to specifically to FIU or to medical school generally? I am a re-applicant but i did not apply to FIU last year since I didn't think I would get in, so will they see my old application? Not sure what to put here.
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Yes, it is asking in general. They would have mentioned FIU specifically if not.
 
MasterOogway said:
Yes, it is asking in general. They would have mentioned FIU specifically if not.
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Okay thank you for your response! I am concerned that it would look bad that I did not apply to FIU last year, should I address why I didnt?
 
studyingallday said:
Okay thank you for your response! I am concerned that it would look bad that I did not apply to FIU last year, should I address why I didnt?
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no just state what you have done to improve.
 
Has there been already lots of interview invites??
 
jxb3xao said:
Has there been already lots of interview invites??
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I've been checking admit.org and it seems only 15/160 have received an interview. I know admit is not 100% accurate at all, but still a good resource. I am curious myself too though. I am an OOS applicant and completed my secondary mid-August.
 
jxb3xao said:
Has there been already lots of interview invites??
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I interviewed last month and they were doing Aug/Sept only. I guess they are doing it in batches? I would expect the next batch to be sent out soon for the Oct/Nov. Just speculating based on the calendar when I had to schedule the interview.
 
YVF said:
I interviewed last month and they were doing Aug/Sept only. I guess they are doing it in batches? I would expect the next batch to be sent out soon for the Oct/Nov. Just speculating based on the calendar when I had to schedule the interview.
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Congratulations on the interview! Looking forward to you getting an acceptance 🙂
 
@Premedhopeful2256 @YVF and anyone else accepted, do you understand the "accept or decline" part that you have to do within 2 weeks? This is not committing correct?
 
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