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2025-2026 UC Irvine Secondary Essay Prompts:

1. What personal accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)

2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a challenge or disappointment you have overcome and what you learned about yourself from that experience. (1500 characters)

3. Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare? If so, please describe how this impacted you and others in your community. (1500 characters)

4. Have you completed your Bachelors Degree (B.A/ B.S). Please clarify for the Admissions Committee your activities (school, work, and/or volunteer, travel, etc.) since receiving your undergraduate degree. You may list them in chronological order or you may incorporate them into an essay, stating why you chose particular activities. If you have just received or will receive your undergraduate degree this year, please discuss your plans for current year. (1500 characters)



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MSTP questions:
1. What research accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a research challenge you have overcome and what you learned from that experience. (1500 characters)
3. What does it mean, to you, to be an MD/PhD? (1500 characters)
4. Please list all posters, manuscripts (published or planned) you would like the Admissions Committee to consider (1500 characters)

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May the gods bless us, PLEASE
 
Max518 said:
Could you possibly post the questions? Are they the same as last year?
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Yes, here are the questions. Same as last year, all 1500 character count incl. spaces.
1. What personal accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a challenge or disappointment you have overcome and what you learned about yourself from that experience. (1500 characters)
3. Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare? If so, please describe how this impacted you and others in your community. (1500 characters)
4. Have you completed your Bachelors Degree (B.A/ B.S). Please clarify for the Admissions Committee your activities (school, work, and/or volunteer, travel, etc.) since receiving your undergraduate degree. You may list them in chronological order or you may incorporate them into an essay, stating why you chose particular activities. If you have just received or will receive your undergraduate degree this year, please discuss your plans for current year. (1500 characters)

MSTP questions:
1. What research accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a research challenge you have overcome and what you learned from that experience. (1500 characters)
3. What does it mean, to you, to be an MD/PhD? (1500 characters)
4. Please list all posters, manuscripts (published or planned) you would like the Admissions Committee to consider (1500 characters)
 
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AppleMan14 said:
Yes, here are the questions. Same as last year:
1. What personal accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a challenge or disappointment you have overcome and what you learned about yourself from that experience. (1500 characters)
3. Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare? If so, please describe how this impacted you and others in your community. (1500 characters)
4. Have you completed your Bachelors Degree (B.A/ B.S). Please clarify for the Admissions Committee your activities (school, work, and/or volunteer, travel, etc.) since receiving your undergraduate degree. You may list them in chronological order or you may incorporate them into an essay, stating why you chose particular activities. If you have just received or will receive your undergraduate degree this year, please discuss your plans for current year. (1500 characters)
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When did you apply in the primary cycle? Also, what are your stats, if you don't mind sharing?
 
AppleMan14 said:
Yes, here are the questions. Same as last year:
1. What personal accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a challenge or disappointment you have overcome and what you learned about yourself from that experience. (1500 characters)
3. Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare? If so, please describe how this impacted you and others in your community. (1500 characters)
4. Have you completed your Bachelors Degree (B.A/ B.S). Please clarify for the Admissions Committee your activities (school, work, and/or volunteer, travel, etc.) since receiving your undergraduate degree. You may list them in chronological order or you may incorporate them into an essay, stating why you chose particular activities. If you have just received or will receive your undergraduate degree this year, please discuss your plans for current year. (1500 characters)

MSTP questions:
1. What research accomplishment are you most proud of and why? (1500 characters)
2. Please describe to the Admissions Committee a research challenge you have overcome and what you learned from that experience. (1500 characters)
3. What does it mean, to you, to be an MD/PhD? (1500 characters)
4. Please list all posters, manuscripts (published or planned) you would like the Admissions Committee to consider (1500 characters)
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these character counts are excluding spaces, right? if so, could you edit to include that please?
 
AniKar8 said:
these character counts are excluding spaces, right? if so, could you edit to include that please?
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No, I believe it includes spaces. I just double checked.

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Does UCI screen primary apps? In other words they choose who to give secondaries to, similar to UCSF?
 
I am MD only, have not received anything yet.
 
For question #3, if you have not experienced those things, do you put "N/A"?
 
Day 5 begging for the UCI gods to awaken
 
mayziemed said:
+1 IS, regular MD secondary (finally!)
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what are you putting for the please describe box for the "have demonstrated the potential to work with under-resourced communities" - I have no idea if they want a short answer or a long one as there is no character count here.
 
user123456123 said:
what are you putting for the please describe box for the "have demonstrated the potential to work with under-resourced communities" - I have no idea if they want a short answer or a long one as there is no character count here.
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I have no idea yet lol I need to think about it
 
mayziemed said:
+1 IS, regular MD secondary (finally!)
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Hi! When did you submit your primary and if you don't mind sharing, what's your LM? 🙂
 
chilly_md said:
3. Have you ever had difficulty accessing quality education or healthcare? If so, please describe how this impacted you and others in your community. (1500 characters)
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Is this optional? Very similar to last year's prompt, but it was explicitly indicated optional. Wondering if this one is explicitly stated optional too.
 
IS still waiting on here and UCSF. Submitted AAMC 6/8 and verified on 7/17, got UCLA on 7/18 and UCSD on 7/23. 3.6 + 518
 
Very similar to my experience so far with them both.
S0CaLGuY said:
IS still waiting on here and UCSF. Submitted AAMC 6/8 and verified on 7/17, got UCLA on 7/18 and UCSD on 7/23. 3.6 + 518Ax
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i also got it yesterday. submitted day it opened.
 
user123456123 said:
what are you putting for the please describe box for the "have demonstrated the potential to work with under-resourced communities" - I have no idea if they want a short answer or a long one as there is no character count here.
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Did anyone decide how they are going to approach this question? In terms of word/character count?
 
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