2025-2026 Texas A&M

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2025-2026 Texas A&M Secondary Essay Prompts: (4 questions, all required)
Please notice: Question #4 is not "really" optional but it is short-answer

1. As a physician, you never know what type of patient you will serve. From your past experiences, please describe or highlight factors or situations that demonstrate your ability to work with individuals from multicultural communities. (3500 char.)

2. The Texas A&M School of Medicine embraces the Aggie Core Values of Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity and Selfless Service. Please elaborate on personal characteristics, values, accomplishments and/or any experiences that you feel will help to demonstrate your potential to contribute to the school and to the profession of medicine. (3500 char.)

3. Describe any circumstances indicative of some hardship, such as, but not limited to, financial difficulties, personal or family illness, a medical condition, a death in the immediate family or educational disadvantage not mentioned in your primary application essays. What strategies have you used to address these circumstances? (3500 char.)

4. List the area (or areas) of medicine that appeals to you and briefly explain. (Limit your explanation to 50 words or 250 characters total) Do not leave blank. If not applicable, please so indicate. (50 words or 250 char.)




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[FarmHand]

regular MD MS3 here, If you have any questions about the school let me know!

 

[PGdoc]

Secondary received, here are the prompts: @wysdoc

As a physician, you never know what type of patient you will serve. From your past experiences, please describe or highlight factors or situations that demonstrate your ability to work with individuals from multicultural communities. (3500 char.)

The Texas A&M School of Medicine embraces the Aggie Core Values of Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity and Selfless Service. Please elaborate on personal characteristics, values, accomplishments and/or any experiences that you feel will help to demonstrate your potential to contribute to the school and to the profession of medicine. (3500 char.)

Describe any circumstances indicative of some hardship, such as, but not limited to, financial difficulties, personal or family illness, a medical condition, a death in the immediate family or educational disadvantage not mentioned in your primary application essays. What strategies have you used to address these circumstances? (3500 char.)

OPTIONAL QUESTION: List the area (or areas) of medicine that appeals to you and briefly explain. (Limit your explanation to 50 words or 250 characters total) Do not leave blank. If not applicable, please so indicate. (50 words or 250 char.)

 

[wysdoc]

editorial comment - I WISH A&M would quit wording question #4 "Optional Question..... but then "do not leave blank" 🙄🙄

 

[Cruisingcalmly]

Incoming MS1, let me know if you have any questions about the application process!🙂

 

[luckylucy132]

Anybody else running into a “403 error” when trying to submit the secondary?

 

[wysdoc]

Anybody else running into a “403 error” when trying to submit the secondary?

Please contact A&M admissions for these types of technical errors.
if you haven't been sent an email from A&M yet inviting you to complete the secondary, that could be the issue.

 

[luckylucy132]

Please contact A&M admissions for these types of technical errors.
if you haven't been sent an email from A&M yet inviting you to complete the secondary, that could be the issue.

I got the invite email so it shouldn’t be that. I’ll reach out to them, thanks!

 

[ahnonemoose]

Anybody else running into a “403 error” when trying to submit the secondary?

Yes, call them. They'll fix it.

 

[Feelinglucky]

Anybody else running into a “403 error” when trying to submit the secondary?

Got it last night.
Switched from laptop to phone and it went through.

 

[radiant-math]

Anybody else running into a “403 error” when trying to submit the secondary?

Yes, I’ve tried many times and it keeps charging my card but still doesn’t show as paid in the system 😭

 

[luckylucy132]

Yes, I’ve tried many times and it keeps charging my card but still doesn’t show as paid in the system 😭

I echo the advice above- I switched to my phone and it went through!

 

[Zakaria12345]

Has anyone transmitted casper to TAMU? because they are not showing on the distribution list on casper
, along with a few other texas schools.

 

[wysdoc]

Has anyone transmitted casper to TAMU? because they are not showing on the distribution list on casper
, along with a few other texas schools.

Texas A&M does not utilize CASPer scores.

Here are the TMDSAS schools requiring CASPer and/or Duet:
1 Baylor
2 McGovern
3 Texas Tech El Paso
4 UT Tyler (CASPer + Duet)
5 Long
6 UTMB (CASPer + Duet)
7 UTSW
8 SHSU (CASPer + Duet)

Also TCU (AMCAS) requires CASPer

 

[Zakaria12345]

Texas A&M does not utilize CASPer scores.

Here are the TMDSAS schools requiring CASPer and/or Duet:
1 Baylor
2 McGovern
3 Texas Tech El Paso
4 UT Tyler (CASPer + Duet)
5 Long
6 UTMB (CASPer + Duet)
7 UTSW

Also TCU (AMCAS) requires CASPer

Sam Houston too right?

 

[wysdoc]

Sam Houston too right?

Yes sorry I will add it

 

[ajaxmonkey]

Any idea of how TAMU feels about locals? Or do they prefer people from all over Texas?

 

[wysdoc]

Any idea of how TAMU feels about locals? Or do they prefer people from all over Texas?

Any Texan!

 

[texasvandy]

Any idea of how TAMU feels about locals? Or do they prefer people from all over Texas?

whats a local - attending or living close?

 

[ajaxmonkey]

whats a local - attending or living close?

Sorry, I should have expanded. A person born and raised there, including going there for undergrad in my case.

I’m a nontrad in the community working as a nurse, but I’ve heard how some Texas schools want people from all over so they can go back out and make more docs all over the state.

 

[texasvandy]

Sorry, I should have expanded. A person born and raised there, including going there for undergrad in my case.

I’m a nontrad in the community working as a nurse, but I’ve heard how some Texas schools want people from all over so they can go back out and make more docs all over the state.

There are a couple of schools that give preference to locals - UTRGV and UT Tyler which prefer to recruit people from surrounding areas hoping they can be convinced to stick around after becoming doctors. Others dont have a particular need to be regional and try to fulfill the state mandated 90% from instate applicants.
A&M is not known to prefer their own students. I have come across students with 4.0/515 that have not received interviews primarily because they have had sufficient numbers coming in from combined programs as A&M representatives.

 

[ajaxmonkey]

There are a couple of schools that give preference to locals - UTRGV and UT Tyler which prefer to recruit people from surrounding areas hoping they can be convinced to stick around after becoming doctors. Others dont have a particular need to be regional and try to fulfill the state mandated 90% from instate applicants.
A&M is not known to prefer their own students. I have come across students with 4.0/515 that have not received interviews primarily because they have had sufficient numbers coming in from combined programs as A&M representatives.

This makes sense. Thank you for the information. Oddly, I’ve never talked with a TAMU student about admissions. Because when I worked in the hospitals I wasn’t pursuing medicine as heavily as I am now.

 

[GETBUCKETZ]

Sorry, I should have expanded. A person born and raised there, including going there for undergrad in my case.

I’m a nontrad in the community working as a nurse, but I’ve heard how some Texas schools want people from all over so they can go back out and make more docs all over the state.

Probably will help more than hurt; but probably won't make a huge difference either way