2024-2025 University of Chicago (Pritzker) (2024)

2024-2025 University of Chicago (Pritzker) Secondary Essay Prompts

Essay Question 1

Essay Question 2 - MD Only Applicants (Suggested Word Limit: 450)
All MD students participate in our longitudinal Scholarship & Discovery research program, which offers protected curricular time, mentoring, and funding for students to pursue their scholarly interests.
Please describe your research interests and share how our research opportunities will help you advance your career goals.

Essay Question 3 (Suggested Word Limit: 450)
Share with us a difficult or challenging situation you have encountered and how you dealt with it. In your response, identify both the coping skills you called upon to resolve the dilemma, and the support person(s) from whom you sought advice.

(Optional) Additional Information
Please feel free to use this space to convey any additional information that you might wish the Committee to know. For example, if you are not currently completing a degree, please share your planned or current activities for this application cycle. We suggest that you limit your text to about 300 words.

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@wysdoc They posted this year's prompts on their website: 2024-25 Secondary Essays

Essay Question 1
(Suggested Word Limit: 450)

Students at the Pritzker School of Medicine complete the majority of their clinical training at UChicago Medicine (UCM). UCM is one of the top ten most racially inclusive hospitals in the United States with a primary service area of 12 South Side zip codes where poverty is over double the state level. Additionally, our students lead six free clinics in diverse neighborhoods throughout the city of Chicago.

Please share with us the personal and professional experiences that have best prepared you to work in this diverse clinical environment.

Essay Question 2 - MD Only Applicants
(Suggested Word Limit: 450)

All MD students participate in our longitudinal Scholarship & Discovery research program, which offers protected curricular time, mentoring, and funding for students to pursue their scholarly interests. Please describe your research interests and share how our research opportunities will help you advance your career goals.

Essay Question 3
(Suggested Word Limit: 450)

Share with us a difficult or challenging situation you have encountered and how you dealt with it. In your response, identify both the coping skills you called upon to resolve the dilemma, and the support person(s) from whom you sought advice.

Optional Additional Information

Please feel free to use this space to convey any additional information that you might wish the Committee to know. For example, if you are not currently completing a degree, please share your planned or current activities for this application cycle. We suggest that you limit your text to about 300 words.

flowfish said:

Optional Additional Information

Please feel free to use this space to convey any additional information that you might wish the Committee to know. For example, if you are not currently completing a degree, please share your planned or current activities for this application cycle. We suggest that you limit your text to about 300 words.

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Do y'all know if this one of those "optional (but answer it if you value your app)" or "this is truly optional, please don't, we've read enough of your crappy writing" prompts?

IWishICouldPhysics said:

Do y'all know if this one of those "optional (but answer it if you value your app)" or "this is truly optional, please don't, we've read enough of your crappy writing" prompts?

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read their example...

wysdoc said:

read their example...

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Fair enough!

IloveChiTown said:

For some reason in the portal it says my Letter of References has not been submitted even though my letter packet shows up on the "document received tab" is this the same for anyone else?

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Same here!

barbiedoc07 said:

+1 OOS AMCAS verified 6/6

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+ 2

Submitted 5/28

IloveChiTown said:

For some reason in the portal it says my Letter of References has not been submitted even though my letter packet shows up on the "document received tab" is this the same for anyone else?

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mine too! Wondering if I should reach out to admissions or just give it a few days?

rlysmallpp said:

mine too! Wondering if I should reach out to admissions or just give it a few days?

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I would give it a few days - they just sent out all these secondaries so they probably have to process it

[For my premed family member:]

OOS Secondary Received 6/28
(Submitted 5/31, Verified 6/21)

redtrain21 said:

Do you guys think it would be fine to talk about being low-income for the first question? Unsure because it mentions racially inclusive.

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sure the rest of the prompt mentions economic factors as well

BlueTuba15 said:

I applied MSTP but see no additional essay questions. Does anyone know if this is correct?

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I suspect they will send you some but you should also take the time yourself to look into it

robot_soup said:

stupid question but is it UChicago or U Chicago when writing essays? Wanna save words but don't want to conjoin something if it isn't supposed to be conjoined

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UChicago

flowfish said:

UChicago

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Tysm!