2025-2026 Medical College of Georgia

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2025-2026 Medical College of Georgia Secondary Prompts

**All are a 300 word limit.**

1. Please discuss your primary interest in attending the Medical College of Georgia and how medical education at MCG will help you achieve your future career goals and desired specialty.

2. At the core of MCG’s mission is community engagement and providing care to underserved communities. Please describe your engagement or your personal experience with underserved communities.

3. Please describe your motivation for becoming a physician. Provide an example of an impactful clinical experience or patient encounter which reinforced your desire to enter medicine.

4. The art of medicine requires resilience on the part of its practitioners. There can be perceived failure even when the medical team has done everything right. Please describe a time when you were part of something that failed. What did you learn from this experience?

5. The Admissions Committee considers an applicant’s personal attributes and life experiences to be vital in fulfilling MCG’s educational mission and addressing the healthcare needs of Georgia’s complex and geographically dispersed population. In this context, how would you contribute to the MCG community and help meet the healthcare needs of Georgians?

6. Please describe the specific geographical area (state, city, town or country if applicable) in which you would most likely practice medicine and why.

Optional

7. Please explain any inconsistencies in your academic record or delays in your path to medicine. This may include below average course performance, grade trends, MCAT scores, bridge (gap) years etc. If no inconsistencies have occurred, please select "N/A."

8. Please list any additional coursework or certifications which may not be captured on your primary AMCAS application. If not applicable, please select "N/A."

9. If you have completed an undergraduate degree, please describe your plans for the remainder of the current application cycle. (Ex. may include post-bacc, Master’s, employment…). If no additional information is applicable, please select "N/A."

10. Please list any additional clinical experiences that are not included on your AMCAS application. Please include the physician’s name OR type of experience (i.e., Nursing, PA, EMT, E.R. Scribe, etc.) in the description column below along with the location, dates and total number of hours. If no additional experiences have occurred, please select "N/A."

11. If applicable, indicate any updates to your application since AMCAS submission or other information you feel the admissions committee should consider which may not be captured in other areas of your application. If no additional information is applicable, please select "N/A."


Good luck to all applying!

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1. Please discuss your primary interest in attending the Medical College of Georgia and how medical education at MCG will help you achieve your future career goals and desired specialty. (300 word limit)

2. At the core of MCG’s mission is community engagement and providing care to underserved communities. Please describe your engagement or your personal experience with underserved communities. (300 word limit)

3. Please describe your motivation for becoming a physician. Provide an example of an impactful clinical experience or patient encounter which reinforced your desire to enter medicine. (300 word limit)

4. The art of medicine requires resilience on the part of its practitioners. There can be perceived failure even when the medical team has done everything right. Please describe a time when you were part of something that failed. What did you learn from this experience? (300 word limit)


5. The Admissions Committee considers an applicant’s personal attributes and life experiences to be vital in fulfilling MCG’s educational mission and addressing the healthcare needs of Georgia’s complex and geographically dispersed population. In this context, how would you contribute to the MCG community and help meet the healthcare needs of Georgians? (300 word limit)


6. Please describe the specific geographical area (state, city, town or country if applicable) in which you would most likely practice medicine and why. (300 word limit)


Optional

7. Please explain any inconsistencies in your academic record or delays in your path to medicine. This may include below average course performance, grade trends, MCAT scores, bridge (gap) years etc. If no inconsistencies have occurred, please select "N/A." (300 word limit)

8. Please list any additional coursework or certifications which may not be captured on your primary AMCAS application. If not applicable, please select "N/A." (300 word limit)

9. If you have completed an undergraduate degree, please describe your plans for the remainder of the current application cycle. (Ex. may include post-bacc, Master’s, employment…). If no additional information is applicable, please select "N/A." (300 word limit)

10. Please list any additional clinical experiences that are not included on your AMCAS application. Please include the physician’s name OR type of experience (i.e., Nursing, PA, EMT, E.R. Scribe, etc.) in the description column below along with the location, dates and total number of hours. If no additional experiences have occurred, please select "N/A." (300 word limit)

11. If applicable, indicate any updates to your application since AMCAS submission or other information you feel the admissions committee should consider which may not be captured in other areas of your application. If no additional information is applicable, please select "N/A." (300 word limit)
 
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Do you guys think I should submit the secondary? I am in state but scared I wont be considered because looking on msar there was a HUGE significant drop in accepted black students went from 34 in 2023 to only 17 in 2024, might be even lower for 2025 when they update the stats.
You should absolutely still apply to your public state school
 
Do you guys think I should submit the secondary? I am in state but scared I wont be considered because looking on msar there was a HUGE significant drop in accepted black students went from 34 in 2023 to only 17 in 2024, might be even lower for 2025 when they update the stats.
That's a crazy drop, I wonder if that's just an outlier or something happened?
 
Do you guys think I should submit the secondary? I am in state but scared I wont be considered because looking on msar there was a HUGE significant drop in accepted black students went from 34 in 2023 to only 17 in 2024, might be even lower for 2025 when they update the stats.
If you're in state, you should def submit as long as your stats are good enough.
 
Do you guys think I should submit the secondary? I am in state but scared I wont be considered because looking on msar there was a HUGE significant drop in accepted black students went from 34 in 2023 to only 17 in 2024, might be even lower for 2025 when they update the stats.
MCG is very supportive of black students, don't worry. It's probably just a random drop with fewer black students applying in general.
 
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Have they started ED interviews?
Online it says the ED interviews are the 19th, 21, 26th. I don’t believe they have sent out II yet. Past forums look like it’s normally around the 10th-14th. Good luck everyone we got this!
 
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Does anyone know if the new UGA medical school is confirmed going to be opening in time for applicants to apply this cycle?
 
Does anyone know if the new UGA medical school is confirmed going to be opening in time for applicants to apply this cycle?
It's going to mainly depend on when the LCME conducts its survey visit. UGA can only advertise/open apps for this year's incoming class when they've obtained preliminary accreditation.

It's been known since early February that the visit would happen sometime this fall, but no updates on a specific date. I've heard that the app will probably open pretty late (like beyond November), so we're essentially waiting to see when that visit happens.
 

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Does anyone know if the new UGA medical school is confirmed going to be opening in time for applicants to apply this cycle?
Yes, they said they are waiting for LCME for accreditation. If they do get accreditation they would most likely open application around February or march
 
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will mcg send u an email if they need more docs proving ur in-state residency? just a lil paranoid that i might not have submitted enough proof and my app isn't considered completed lol
 
do u guys think uga med will start accepting applications this cycle? and, if so, will that affect mcg's cycle at all (i.e. make it easier/harder)?
 
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do u guys think uga med will start accepting applications this cycle? and, if so, will that affect mcg's cycle at all (i.e. make it easier/harder)?
If they do, they will not accept applications until early March. Their site visit is September 16 and 17. They would thus not be awarded accreditation until the spring meeting which is at the very end of February. This is fact.
 
do u guys think uga med will start accepting applications this cycle? and, if so, will that affect mcg's cycle at all (i.e. make it easier/harder)?

It will likely open for applications in February if it passes accredidation after a "site visit" by LCME this fall. It will likely pass. It will be a much shortened application process, about 8 weeks from opening apps to choosing their class. This can only serve to help GA residents who are applying for medical school, as UGA's mission is to decrease the GA physician shortage. They will likely accept a large majority of GA residents. MCG plans to "reabsorb" the 60 seats from the MCG-Athens partnership into its main campus and other campuses. So essentially there will be more overall seats available for GA residents, going from around 300 (MCG before UGA) to around 360 (MCG after UGA opens). Also, someone I talked to on an admissions committee at a medical school said that UGA may offer free or very low cost tuition for its first class. This is not unusual for brand new medical schools, as it incentivizes applicants to apply to the new school. Though UGA has officially said nothing so far about the cost.

"Pending accreditation, applications will be accepted starting in February or March of next year and they would only have eight weeks to recruit that first class."

"Hess said MCG currently has one of the largest classes in the nation, with more than 300 students enrolled, including the 60 slots currently filled in the Athens partnership. When the new school is up and running, those slots will be reabsorbed into MCG"