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2025-2026 Maryland Secondary Essay Prompts (some are different than last year)

1. Please share any relevant characteristic about your background and/or experiences not already described in AMCAS you feel may positively impact how you practice medicine in the future. (Optional) (200 characters)

2. Describe here the reason why you are specifically interested in attending the University of Maryland School of Medicine. (1000 characters)

3. Please describe what you will be doing during the 2025-2026 academic year. If you gradauted/will graduate in 2025, what are your plans for the coming year until you matriculate to medical school? (1000 characters)

4. If you’ve experienced academic challenges while in college and/or graduate or professional school, please describe and explain below. Please be sure to include withdrawals, incompletes, poor grades, etc. (Optional) (1000 characters)

5. Briefly describe your most meaningful exposure to clinical medicine. (1500 characters)

6. Briefly describe your most satisfying experience related to community service. (1500 characters)

7. How does our School of Medicine mission, vision, and values align with your vision for your future career as a physician? (1500 characters)

8. What does it mean to you to enter into a profession? (1500 characters)

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1. Please share any relevant characteristic about your background and/or experiences not already described in AMCAS you feel may positively impact how you practice medicine in the future. (Optional)

2. Describe here the reason why you are specifically interested in attending the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

3. Please describe what you will be doing during the 2025-2026 academic year. If you gradauted/will graduate in 2025, what are your plans for the coming year until you matriculate to medical school?

4. If you’ve experienced academic challenges while in college and/or graduate or professional school, please describe and explain below. Please be sure to include withdrawals, incompletes, poor grades, etc. (Optional)

5. Briefly describe your most meaningful exposure to clinical medicine.

6. Briefly describe your most satisfying experience related to community service.

7. How does our School of Medicine mission, vision, and values align with your vision for your future career as a physician?

8. What does it mean to you to enter into a profession?

All are 1500 characters
 
For those that are curious, looks like 2 prompts changed: Background/experiences prompt, diversity essay changed to mission essay (1, 7).
 
Are you all Early Decision? I applied normally and haven't received secondaries yet.
 
There are no directions for the work experience section. Are we supposed to list every paid employment opportunity that we have ever had? Also, when I try to fill out my pre-requisites, none of my coursework is listed. Is this happening to anyone else?
 
@wysdoc all the prompts are NOT 1500 characters each.

Deadline: December 1, 2025
• MD/PhD is October 15, 2025
• Early Decision is August 8, 2025

$80 Secondary Fee

*(Optional) * 1. Please share any relevant characteristic about your background and/or experiences not already described in AMCAS you feel may positively impact how you practice medicine in the future. (200 Characters MAX)

2. Describe here the reason why you are specifically interested in attending the University of Maryland School of Medicine. (1000 Characters MAX)

3. Please describe what you will be doing during the 2025-2026 academic year. If you graduated/will graduate in 2025, what are your plans for the coming year until you matriculate to medical school? (1000 Characters MAX)

*(Optional)* 4. If you’ve experienced academic challenges while in college and/or graduate or professional school, please describe and explain below. Please be sure to include withdrawals, incompletes, poor grades, etc.(1000 Characters MAX)

5. Briefly describe your most meaningful exposure to clinical medicine. (1500 Characters MAX)

6. Briefly describe your most satisfying experience related to community service. (1500 Characters MAX)

7. How does our School of Medicine mission, vision, and values align with your vision for your future career as a physician? (1500 Characters MAX)

8. What does it mean to you to enter into a profession? (1500 Characters MAX)
 
kaleidoscope503 said:
@wysdoc all the prompts are NOT 1500 characters each.

Deadline: December 1, 2025
• MD/PhD is October 15, 2025
• Early Decision is August 8, 2025

$80 Secondary Fee

*(Optional) * 1. Please share any relevant characteristic about your background and/or experiences not already described in AMCAS you feel may positively impact how you practice medicine in the future. (200 Characters MAX)

2. Describe here the reason why you are specifically interested in attending the University of Maryland School of Medicine. (1000 Characters MAX)

3. Please describe what you will be doing during the 2025-2026 academic year. If you graduated/will graduate in 2025, what are your plans for the coming year until you matriculate to medical school? (1000 Characters MAX)

*(Optional)* 4. If you’ve experienced academic challenges while in college and/or graduate or professional school, please describe and explain below. Please be sure to include withdrawals, incompletes, poor grades, etc.(1000 Characters MAX)

5. Briefly describe your most meaningful exposure to clinical medicine. (1500 Characters MAX)

6. Briefly describe your most satisfying experience related to community service. (1500 Characters MAX)

7. How does our School of Medicine mission, vision, and values align with your vision for your future career as a physician? (1500 Characters MAX)

8. What does it mean to you to enter into a profession? (1500 Characters MAX)
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Thank you for the correction
The rest of y’all - precision is crucial for a doctor! :whistle: :caution:
 
mitochondriamama said:
There are no directions for the work experience section. Are we supposed to list every paid employment opportunity that we have ever had? Also, when I try to fill out my pre-requisites, none of my coursework is listed. Is this happening to anyone else?
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Yes, I got into UMD previous cycle. Just fill out the section with ALL your paid work experience (dates, hours, etc.)!
 
Is anyone else having an error when submitting the secondary fee? I got an email confirming they received payment but the portal hasn't updated
 
book_bear said:
Is anyone else having an error when submitting the secondary fee? I got an email confirming they received payment but the portal hasn't updated
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i did not have an issue, but i also submitted almost a week ago. Maybe they need to manually mark it complete?
 
For the most meaningful clinical experience - does this have to be one of our 'most meaningful' on the primary or can we write about something completely different
 
snakeplanter said:
For the most meaningful clinical experience - does this have to be one of our 'most meaningful' on the primary or can we write about something completely different
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I wouls assume you can write something completely different. It doesn't have to be from the primary since they will probably read it anyway if that makes sense.
 
Are we just supposed to manually enter all of our courses. the right hand column where I should be able to drag and drop is completely blank for me. Anyone else having this issue?
 
Both # 2 & # 7 seem to be very similar. # 2 is definitely why Maryland, while # 7 could be more about your contribution to profession. Am I reading it right?
 
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