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2025-26 Albany Medical College secondary essay prompts:

1. Describe yourself.

2. Please explain any inconsistencies in your university, graduate, or professional school academic performance and/or MCAT scores. If the question does not apply to you, please put N/A in the box provided.

3. Has your college or university, graduate or professional school attendance been interrupted for any reason? If yes, please explain. Also, please explain any extended gaps in activity/employment in your post-graduate history. If the question does not apply to you, please put N/A in the box provided.

4. Describe a significant challenge that has prepared you for the MD career path.

5. Please describe your personal experiences with the structural and social determinants of health in your life and community, how they shaped your engagement with medicine and your future ideas for doctoring.

6. Tell us about a community with which you identify and how you are involved with it.

7. Is there anything else you would like the admissions committee to know when reviewing your application? If so, please use the space provided.

8. In the "Work and Activities" section on your AMCAS application, you provided the following list of experiences.

Please select the experience that you feel has been the most meaningful in influencing your desire to pursue a career in medicine, explain why, and also describe what aspect of that experience best equips you to make an impact in the medical profession.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - About Albany Medical College
01:14 - Prompt 1
02:15 - Prompt 2
03:29 - Prompt 3
05:08 - Prompt 4
06:57 - Prompt 5
08:16 - Prompt 6
09:47 - Prompt 7
10:46 - Prompt 8
11:58 - Final thoughts

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