Johns Hopkins - Secondary Essay Prompts

1 .If you have already received your bachelor's degree, please describe what you have been doing since graduation, and your plans for the upcoming year.

2 .If you interrupted your college education for a semester or longer, please describe what you did during that time.

3 .Briefly describe your single, most rewarding experience. Feel free to refer to an experience previously described in your AMCAS application.

4 .Are there any areas of medicine that are of particular interest to you? If so, please comment.

5 .Briefly describe a situation where you had to overcome adversity; include lessons learned and how you think it will affect your career as a future physician.

6 .Briefly describe a situation where you were not in the majority. What did you learn from the experience?

7 .Wonder encapsulates a feeling of rapt attention … it draws the observer in. Tell us about a time in recent years that you experienced wonder in your everyday life. Although experiences related to your clinical or research work may be the first to come to mind, we encourage you to think of an experience that is unrelated to medicine or science. What did you learn from that experience?

8 .The Admissions Committee values hearing about each candidate for admission, including what qualities the candidate might bring to the School of Medicine if admitted. If you feel there is information not already addressed in the application that will enable the Committee to know more about you and this has influenced your desire to be a physician, feel free to write a brief statement in the space below. You may address any subject you wish, such as being a first generation college student, or being a part of a minority group (whether because of your sexual orientation, religion, economic status, gender identity, ethnicity) or being the child of undocumented immigrants or being undocumented yourself, etc. Please note that this question is optional and that you will not be penalized should you choose not to answer it.