Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Motivation and Fit
2 prompts-
1. Please review the Johns Hopkins Medicine Website. Is there an area of medicine or a particular specialty at Johns Hopkins that interests you and why?
2024-2025 -
2. Would you like to share any additional information with the Admissions Committee about yourself that cannot be found elsewhere in your application?
2024-2025
Career Goals and Future Aspirations
3 prompts-
1. Optional: If you have already received your bachelor's degree, please describe what you have been doing since graduation and outline your plans for the upcoming year.
2023-2024 -
2. Are there specific areas of medicine that particularly interest you? If so, please elaborate.
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3. Are there specific areas of medicine that particularly interest you? If so, please elaborate. (2500 character limit)
2021-2022 2020-2021
Personal Attributes and Characteristics
2 prompts-
1. Wonder encapsulates a feeling of rapt attention that draws the observer in. Please share a recent experience from your everyday life that evoked a sense of wonder. While experiences related to your clinical or research work may come to mind first, we encourage you to consider an experience unrelated to medicine or science. What did you learn from that experience? (2500 character limit)
2021-2022 -
2. Wonder encapsulates a feeling of rapt attention and draws the observer in. Please share a recent experience from your everyday life that evoked a sense of wonder. While experiences related to your clinical or research work may come to mind first, we encourage you to consider an experience unrelated to medicine or science. What did you learn from that experience? (2500 character limit)
2020-2021
Other
3 prompts-
1. Briefly describe your single, most rewarding experience.
2024-2025 -
2. Briefly describe a situation where you were not in the majority. What did you learn from that experience?
2024-2025 -
3. Wonder: Tell us about a time in recent years where you experienced wonder in your everyday life. What did you learn from that experience?
2024-2025
Personal Experiences and Challenges
7 prompts-
1. Briefly describe a situation where you had to overcome adversity. Include the lessons learned and how you think it will affect your career as a future physician.
2024-2025 -
2. Optional: If you took a break from your college education for a semester or longer, please describe what you did during that time.
2023-2024 -
3. Briefly describe your single most rewarding experience. You may refer to an experience previously mentioned in your AMCAS application.
2023-2024 2022-2023 2019-2020 -
4. Briefly describe a situation in which you had to overcome adversity. Include the lessons you learned and how you believe this experience will affect your career as a future physician.
2023-2024 2022-2023 2019-2020 -
5. Wonder encapsulates a feeling of rapt attention that draws the observer in. Please tell us about a time in recent years when you experienced wonder in your everyday life. While experiences related to your clinical or research work may be the first to come to mind, we encourage you to consider an experience that is unrelated to medicine or science. What did you learn from that experience?
2023-2024 2022-2023 -
6. Briefly describe your single most rewarding experience. You may refer to an experience previously mentioned in your AMCAS application. (2500 character limit)
2021-2022 2020-2021 -
7. Briefly describe a situation in which you had to overcome adversity. Include the lessons you learned and how you believe this experience will impact your career as a future physician. (2500 character limit)
2021-2022 2020-2021
Community, Diversity, and Equity
7 prompts-
1. Describe how your personal background informs your decision to apply to Johns Hopkins Medicine and what has influenced your desire to become a physician in a diverse community.
2024-2025 -
2. Briefly describe a situation in which you were not part of the majority. What did you learn from that experience?
2023-2024 2022-2023 2019-2020 -
3. Optional: The Admissions Committee values learning about each candidate for admission, including the qualities they might bring to the School of Medicine if admitted. If you believe there is information not already addressed in your application that would help the Committee understand you better and has influenced your desire to become a physician, please feel free to write a brief statement in the space below. You may address any topic you wish, such as being a first-generation college student, being part of a minority group (including aspects such as sexual orientation, religion, economic status, gender identity, or ethnicity), or being the child of undocumented immigrants or being undocumented yourself, etc. Please note that this question is optional, and you will not be penalized if you choose not to answer it.
2023-2024 2022-2023 -
4. Briefly describe a situation in which you were not part of the majority. What did you learn from that experience? (2500 character limit)
2021-2022 2020-2021 -
5. Optional: The Admissions Committee values learning about each candidate for admission, including the qualities they might bring to the School of Medicine if admitted. If you believe there is information not already addressed in your application that would help the Committee understand you better and has influenced your desire to become a physician, please feel free to write a brief statement in the space below. You may address any topic you wish, such as being a first-generation college student, a member of a minority group (including aspects such as sexual orientation, religion, economic status, gender identity, or ethnicity), or being the child of undocumented immigrants or undocumented yourself, etc. Please note that this question is optional, and you will not be penalized if you choose not to answer it.
2021-2022 -
6. Optional: The Admissions Committee values hearing from each candidate for admission, including the qualities they might bring to the School of Medicine if admitted. If you believe there is information not already addressed in your application that would help the Committee learn more about you and your motivation to become a physician, please 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, a member of a minority group (including aspects such as sexual orientation, religion, economic status, gender identity, or ethnicity), or being the child of undocumented immigrants or undocumented yourself, etc. Please note that this question is optional, and you will not be penalized if you choose not to answer it.
2020-2021 2019-2020 -
7. Briefly describe a situation in which you were not part of the majority. What did you learn from this experience?
2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2014-2015