Secondary Essay Prompts for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2020 – 2021

MD:

Optional or Y/N Questions:

  • Have you previously applied to the MD or MD/PhD Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai School of Medicine (including an Early Assurance Program such as FlexMed)? Y/N
  • Have you, in the past years, applied to any other medical school? Y/N
  • Are there significant gaps in time that are unaccounted for in your application? Y/N
  • If you are currently not a full time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in this academic year. (100 words)
  • Were there any adverse circumstances in your premedical preparatory journey including but not limited to recent impact from COVID-19? 100 words to explain if yes
  • Are you submitting your application with a future MCAT date that was rescheduled because of COVID19? Y/N
  • If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity or a commitment to a particular community, not addressed elsewhere in the application, that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Aspects might include, but are not limited to significant challenges in or circumstances associated with access to education, living with a disability, socioeconomic factors, immigration status, or identification with a culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional. (100 words)

Secondary Prompts Required of all Students:

  • What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it and what did you learn from it? (250 words)
  • Describe a situation that you have thought to be unfair or unjust, whether towards yourself or towards others. How did you address the situation, if at all? (200 words)

2019 – 2020

  • MD
    • If you are currently not a full time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in this academic year. (100 words)
    • If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity or a commitment to a particular community, not addressed elsewhere in the application, that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Aspects might include, but are not limited to significant challenges in or circumstances associated with access to education, living with a disability, socioeconomic factors, immigration status, or identification with a culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional. (100 words)
    • What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it and what did you learn from it? (250 words)
    • Please tell us about a situation in which working collaboratively on a team was challenging. What did you do? What did you learn? (200 words)
  • MD/PhD
    • Please describe an influential experience that motivated your decision to become a physician-scientist. (200 words)
    • What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it and what did you learn from it? (200 words)
    • Please tell us about a time when an experiment didn’t go as planned or yielded an unexpected result. How did you approach this challenge and what did you learn? (200 words)
    • What are your career goals? Which characteristics of the MD/PhD Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai do you believe will help you to achieve them? (200 words)

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2018 – 2019

MD:

  • If you are currently not a full time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in this academic year. (100 words)
  • If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity or a commitment to a particular community, not addressed elsewhere in the application, that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Aspects might include, but are not limited to significant challenges in or circumstances associated with access to education, living with a disability, socioeconomic factors, immigration status, or identification with a culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional. (100 words)
  • What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it and what did you learn from it? (250 words)
  • Please tell us about a situation in which working collaboratively on a team was challenging. What did you do? What did you learn? (200 words)

MD/PhD:

  • Please describe an influential experience that motivated your decision to become a physician-scientist. (200 words)
  • What is the toughest feedback you ever received? How did you handle it and what did you learn from it? (200 words)
  • Please tell us about a time when an experiment didn’t go as planned or yielded an unexpected result. How did you approach this challenge and what did you learn? (200 words)
  • What are your career goals? Which characteristics of the MD/PhD Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai do you believe will help you to achieve them? (200 words)

Below are the secondary essay prompts for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

2017 – 2018

  • The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai strives to ensure that its students become respectful physicians who embrace all dimensions of caring for the whole person. Please describe how your personal characteristics or life experiences will contribute to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai community and bring educational benefits to our student body. (1000 characters)
  • Is there any further information that you would like the Committee on Admissions to be aware of when reviewing your file that you were not able to notate in another section of this or the AMCAS Application? (1000 characters)
  • Why have you chosen to apply to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and how do you think your education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will prepare you to become a physician for the future? (1 page, formatted at your discretion, upload as PDF)

2016 – 2017

  • Please tell us about a passion (professional or personal) you have had thus far in your life.
  • Please limit to 250 words.

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Secondary Essay

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Topics covered in this presentation:

  • When should I submit my secondary essays?
  • Pay attention to the word/character limits.
  • Can I recycle secondary essay prompts for multiple schools?
  • Identify topics that you left out of your primary application.
  • And, much more.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Admissions Requirements

2017-2018 Accepted Student Data
Median GPA = 3.87
Median MCAT = 519
Applications = 6498
Interviewed = 930
Matriculated = 140

Learn more about this school:

Icahn School of Medicine
Office of Admissions
Annenberg Building, Room 13-90
New York City, NY 10029-6574 USA
(212) 241-6696
(212) 828-4135

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