Medical Schools with no secondaries (no essay)

[strive01]

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can someone help me find the list of schools that do not have a secondary (no essay.. of course each one of them will make you pay extra money) or know of any that do not have a secondary?

 

[CougarMD]

I think you're going to have to do what everyone else does....and go look through the school specific threads from last year one at a time.

 

[HakunaMatata22]

I've never heard of a "list" per-say, but I know Mayo and the Medical College of Wisconsin require no essays as of the 2009-2010 application cycle.

 

[confusedchild]

There are a lot of schools that don't. This is from my experience last year - I don't know if things have changed. Some don't have any essays at all, while others have essays that are optional (used to think this pretty much meant mandatory but just as many people got invites that didn't write an essay as those who wrote something).

No essays - mayo, cincy, aecom, ucsf, ut galveston, uth, utsa, mcwisconsin

optional essay - slu

these are the ones off the top of my head but honestly once you do about 5 or 6 secondaries, things start repeating themselves and you can pretty much submit the same thing you did for another school with a few changes here and there to go below character/word limit. Good luck to all~

 

[NickNaylor]

Harvard has an optional essay.

 

[mcctwist1]

I don't believe vermont has one either.

 

[OhioDoc]

can someone help me find the list of schools that do not have a secondary (no essay.. of course each one of them will make you pay extra money) or know of any that do not have a secondary?

Wright State and the Medical college of wisconsin both have no essays

 

[sustentacular]

can someone help me find the list of schools that do not have a secondary (no essay.. of course each one of them will make you pay extra money) or know of any that do not have a secondary?

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=8418202

 

[Quaero]

There are a lot of schools that don't. This is from my experience last year - I don't know if things have changed. Some don't have any essays at all, while others have essays that are optional (used to think this pretty much meant mandatory but just as many people got invites that didn't write an essay as those who wrote something).

No essays - mayo, cincy, aecom, ucsf, ut galveston, uth, utsa, mcwisconsin

optional essay - slu

these are the ones off the top of my head but honestly once you do about 5 or 6 secondaries, things start repeating themselves and you can pretty much submit the same thing you did for another school with a few changes here and there to go below character/word limit. Good luck to all~

Thank you for your short list 👍

 

[vegan1]

Jefferson has no essay, only a spot where you can tell them "anything else you want them to know" about you.

 

[kachan0]

Jefferson has no essay, only a spot where you can tell them "anything else you want them to know" about you.

U of Vermont as well -- no essays.

 

[goldnuts13]

from another thread:

Albert Einstein
Buffalo
Drexel
Jefferson (1 optional essay)
Harvard (if a senior, and applying New Pathway)
Indiana
Mayo
MCW
NYMC
Rochester
St. Louis
SUNY Upstate
SUNY Buffalo
UCSF
UMDNJ - NJM
UMDNJ - RWJ
Texas Tech El Paso
University of Cincinnati (1 essay for those taking a year off)
University of Nebraska
University of Wisconsin (1 optional essay)
University of Tennessee
UT Galveston
UT Houston
UT San Antonio
Washington University - St. Louis (1 optional essay)
Wright State University

 

[student1799]

Personally, I think you're better off WITH an essay if your grades aren't sky-high. It gives you a chance to make a case for yourself. Yes, they're a pain to write, but if you do a good job, it can really help you stand out from the crowd.

 

[Suenya]

It's true that essays can help you stand out, but if your grades are lower (or you're crazy like I was) and you decide to apply to ALOT of schools, you'll want to hit any of the schools that are in the mid-lower tiers that don't require essays.

I think it's wonderful to know and very helpful. (I ended up only going to like 2/3 of my interviews, but quite a few are on that list - although I think I had to write very brief essays for them because I wasn't a senior anymore, still well worth it to know which ones have ~none too!)

Also, I don't remember which it is, but I think one of the Chicago schools has like the worst essays ever.

 

[student1799]

Also, I don't remember which it is, but I think one of the Chicago schools has like the worst essays ever.

I applied to a couple of them, and they were both bad. Rosalind Franklin made you write some awful thing about being on "interprofessional teams." And Loyola had about 7 essays--it was like writing your autobiography. (Plus you had only 2 weeks to turn it in.)

 

[DocBell]

Medical University of South Carolina doesn't have an essay.

 

[student1799]

Just realized there's another thread on this same subject. Mods: can you merge them?

 

[Dianyla]

Personally, I think you're better off WITH an essay if your grades aren't sky-high. It gives you a chance to make a case for yourself. Yes, they're a pain to write, but if you do a good job, it can really help you stand out from the crowd.

I agree! One of my favorite schools doesn't have secondary essays and I would really love to have more opportunities to plead my case. 🙂