Most Common Secondary App Questions
Who’s ready for secondarie? I couldn’t wait to get my hands on my secondaries when I applied.
Variations of the below questions occurred over and over again in the 18 secondaries I received! (Not flexing here lol, pretty sure a lot of schools just auto send secondaries to everyone that applies.)
Here is a list of the most common prompts I received (note some will have character limits):
- If you didn’t spend the current academic year in school, what have you been doing?
- Why do you want to attend X school?
- How will you contribute to X school’s mission statement?
- What unique characteristics, abilities, or skills will you bring to X school?
- Talk about a time you failed (non-academic) and how you responded. What did you learn?
- Talk about an experience you had with diversity? And/or how will you contribute to diversity at X school?
Questions for DO programs:
- Why do you want to become an osteopathic physician?
- Describe your experience with osteopathic physicians.
Secondaries are no joke. Be prepared to spend a LOT of time on these, my running doc ended up being 25 pages long.
Cheering for you ALL and CANNOT WAIT for your updates this cycle!!