2025-2026 UCF (U Central Florida)

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2025-2026 UCF Secondary Essay Prompts: ( one question dropped from last year, wording otherwise unchanged )

1. Medical school demands significant personal sacrifices, including long hours, emotional stress, and sometimes compromising personal time. Can you describe how you have prepared yourself for these sacrifices and how you plan to maintain a healthy work-life balance while managing the responsibilities of a medical student? (Limit 750 characters)

2. Can you please recount an experience from your academic or personal life where you actively collaborated with others to achieve a common goal? How do you anticipate applying this collaborative approach in your future medical education and practice, taking into account the diverse perspectives and expertise within healthcare teams? (Limit: 750 characters)

3. We often hear that students want to pursue medicine to help people. Why did you choose medicine and not some other field where you can help others, such as nursing, physical therapy, pharmacology, psychology, education, or social work? (Limit 750 characters)

4. Tell us about something that is integral to understanding who you are as a person that we would not automatically know from reading your application. These may be things like qualities, characteristics, or events you feel are unique to your life experience. You could address personally important and/or challenging experiences in your background that have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine and service to others. These may include experiences such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, cultural background, or other significant events or circumstances that you feel have shaped your character and defined you as an individual. (Limit 4000 characters)

5. Please share with the Admissions Committee why you are specifically interested in UCF COM (limit 500 characters).


Good luck to all applying!

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I am in state and have not recieved a secondary, but my fiance is out of state and has. Is this typical? I LOVE UCF so I would be sad if I didn't get one.
 
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Essay Prompts:

Medical school demands significant personal sacrifices, including long hours, emotional stress, and sometimes compromising personal time. Can you describe how you have prepared yourself for these sacrifices and how you plan to maintain a healthy work-life balance while managing the responsibilities of a medical student? (Limit 750 characters)

Can you please recount an experience from your academic or personal life where you actively collaborated with others to achieve a common goal? How do you anticipate applying this collaborative approach in your future medical education and practice, taking into account the diverse perspectives and expertise within healthcare teams? (Limit: 750 characters)

We often hear that students want to pursue medicine to help people. Why did you choose medicine and not some other field where you can help others, such as nursing, physical therapy, pharmacology, psychology, education, or social work? (Limit 750 characters)

Tell us about something that is integral to understanding who you are as a person that we would not automatically know from reading your application. These may be things like qualities, characteristics, or events you feel are unique to your life experience. You could address personally important and/or challenging experiences in your background that have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine and service to others. These may include experiences such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, cultural background, or other significant events or circumstances that you feel have shaped your character and defined you as an individual. (Limit 4000 characters)

Please share with the Admissions Committee why you are specifically interested in UCF COM (limit 500 characters).
 
I am in state and have not recieved a secondary, but my fiance is out of state and has. Is this typical? I LOVE UCF so I would be sad if I didn't get one.
I am in state (currently attending UCF) and still haven't received, I'd wait and see if there is more action this coming week as they have only had one business day to send them out!
 
Hi y'all! Has anyone received their secondaries yet? I see that some people haven't gotten theirs yet so I'm curious.
 
My letters of recommendation section is marked as incomplete on the application status section, even though they have all been recieved. I already turned in my secondary. Is anyone else having this issue?
 
My letters of recommendation section is marked as incomplete on the application status section, even though they have all been recieved. I already turned in my secondary. Is anyone else having this issue?
Took a day for me. Read right above them in the status tab there is a paragraph
 
For those who earned interviews, how long did it take between your secondary being marked completed and you receiving the interview? Has anyone who had their secondary marked complete on/after 8/12 already received an interview?
 
For those who earned interviews, how long did it take between your secondary being marked completed and you receiving the interview? Has anyone who had their secondary marked complete on/after 8/12 already received an interview?
I submitted my secondary on 7/1 (marked completed on 7/2) and received an II on 8/19
 
Does anyone have advice on submitting updates? I recently had papers published where i was an author (never have before) and I want to update them but unsure how to format. Should i just submit a pdf of the paper(s) or a pdf type up saying that i published with a link?
 
interviewed in August, just got the bad news today. I thought my interviews went well 🙁

Good luck everyone!
 
Is UCF waking up?

Cute GIF by The BarkPost
 
I read last year's thread, one applicant mentioned it is open file. Lmk if anyone can confirm, thanks!
 
"Two, partially closed, virtual interviews. Interviewers will not have access to academic institutions, grades, MCAT scores or letters. Interviewees will receive instructions prior to their interview date."
- per MSAR
 
For those who earned interviews, how long did it take between your secondary being marked completed and you receiving the interview? Has anyone who had their secondary marked complete on/after 8/12 already received an interview?
Interview invites are not sent in order by which you have applied. Batches of completed applications are reviewed weekly by faculty for interview competitiveness and then groups of typically 17 or so are invited to interview (via email) each week. So we are working from a pool of competitive applicants who have been identified by the faculty as those they would like to put forward for an interview. I hope that helps.
 
Does anyone have advice on submitting updates? I recently had papers published where i was an author (never have before) and I want to update them but unsure how to format. Should i just submit a pdf of the paper(s) or a pdf type up saying that i published with a link?
A PDF with a brief overview and a link to the published work is perfectly fine. It doesn't have to be anything formal. I hope that helps.
 
Hi! What is the interview format for the two interviews? Is it MMI and personal?
 
Hi y'all! I just noticed this thread has been rather slow with IIs. Has there been a lot of activity with UCF or not really? I would think it there would have been something by now.
 
Hi y'all! I just noticed this thread has been rather slow with IIs. Has there been a lot of activity with UCF or not really? I would think it there would have been something by now.
At this point we have interviewed 379 applicants. Typically we interview between 500-515 by the end of February. The chatter might be slow on here, but we are on track for a normal season in terms of interview invite timeline.
 
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