Medical College of Wisconsin

1. Explain how your unique background, identity, interests, or talents will contribute to the learning community at MCW.

2. How will MCW uniquely prepare you to achieve your future goals?

3. Explain how your unique background, identity, interests, or talents will contribute to the MCW learning community, and describe how MCW will uniquely prepare you for your future goals.

4. Describe your motivation for pursuing a primary care-focused, community-based medical education program. Explain how an MCW regional campus educational experience will prepare you for your unique future career in medicine, and include the influence of key experiences with rural or medically underserved communities.

5. Describe your motivation for pursuing a community-based medical education program and explain how it will prepare you for your future career in medicine. Identify experiences in which you have lived in or interacted with rural or medically underserved communities, and discuss how these experiences have influenced you.

6. Why do you want to attend the Medical College of Wisconsin?

7. Why do you want to attend MCW? (1,000 characters including spaces)

8. Describe your motivation for pursuing a community-based medical education program, and explain how this motivation will prepare you for your future career in medicine. Identify experiences in which you have lived in or interacted with rural or medically underserved communities, and discuss how these experiences have influenced you. (3,000 characters including spaces)

9. Both Campuses: The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is dedicated to leadership and excellence in four distinct areas identified in our mission statement: Education, Research, Patient Care, and Service. Choose one of these areas and discuss how you will contribute to our mission, both as a medical student and as a practicing physician.

10. Green Bay Campus Only: Describe your motivation for pursuing medical school training in a community-based medical education program and explain how this will prepare you for your future career in medicine. Identify experiences in which you have lived in or interacted with rural or medically underserved communities and discuss how these experiences have influenced you.

1. How will MCW uniquely prepare you for your future goals? (1000 characters)

1. Explain how your unique background, identity, interests, or talents will contribute to the MCW community. (1000 characters) 2. How will MCW uniquely prepare you for your future goals? (1000 characters) 3. Recount a time when you made a decision you regret. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? (2000 characters) 4. The Medical College of Wisconsin is committed to educating health professionals who are dedicated to improving health equity across the diverse populations we serve. Share what you have learned or how you have grown through working with or serving people from cultural backgrounds or groups different from your own. How do you believe you can contribute to improving health equity or reducing health disparities as a physician? (2000 characters) 5. Reapplicant: Please explain how your application has changed since your last application to MCW Medical School. How have you enhanced your preparation for medical school and your future career as a physician (e.g., additional academic work, employment, volunteer experience, etc.)? You may wish to elaborate on the process you used to critique your application's strengths and weaknesses or share life changes or circumstances that have impacted your application.

2. Describe a time when you found a creative solution to a challenging or unfamiliar situation. What did you learn from that experience?

3. Describe a time when you found a creative solution to a challenging or unfamiliar situation. Include what you learned from the experience. (2,000 characters including spaces)

4. Describe a time when you found a creative solution to a challenging or unfamiliar situation, and explain what you learned from the experience.

1. Recount a time when you made a decision you regret. How did it affect you and what did you learn? (2000 characters)

2. 2022-2023 Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Secondary Essay Prompts

3. "My primary language is not English."

4. Checking any of the above boxes will create a text box titled "Please provide additional details." (2000 characters)

1. Recount a time when you made a decision that you regret. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

2. Recount a time when you made a decision you regret. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

3. Recount a time when you experienced failure or made a decision you regret. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

4. I am the first person in my immediate family, excluding my siblings, to attend college.

5. "I come from a background of economic disadvantage."

6. "I attended an underperforming elementary, middle, or high school."

7. Describe a significant hardship you have overcome.

1. Describe the community where you envision yourself ultimately living and practicing medicine. Discuss the benefits and challenges of life in this community.

2. "I was born or raised in a rural community."

3. Describe the community in which you envision yourself ultimately living and practicing medicine. Discuss the benefits and challenges of life in this community. (2,000 characters including spaces)

4. Describe the community where you envision yourself ultimately living and practicing medicine, discussing both the benefits and challenges of life in that community.

1. Explain how your unique background, identity, interests, or talents will contribute to the MCW learning community. (1000 characters)

2. The Medical College of Wisconsin is committed to educating health professionals dedicated to improving health equity among the diverse populations we serve. Please share what you have learned or how you have grown through your experiences working with or serving individuals from cultural backgrounds or groups different from your own. How do you believe you can contribute to improving health equity or reducing health disparities as a physician?

3. MCW values the unique backgrounds and identities of our incoming students. Please indicate which of the following apply to you. Check all that apply.

4. "I belong to a race or ethnicity that is considered underrepresented in medicine."

5. "I identify as a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA) community."

1. Share what you have learned or how you have grown through working with or serving culturally different groups. (2000 characters)