2024 Ask Admissions Anything

Ask Admissions Anything
We held a live Webinar where UW School of Medicine Admissions staff answered questions from our registrants and attendees. See below to find specific questions/topics we covered! Links that were posted during the webinar and that are relevant to the topics discussed are below.

Closed captioning is enabled, but is auto-generated, so we cannot guarantee its accuracy.

Timestamps
00:00 Welcome & General Information
03:09 Does applying later in the cycle significantly reduce your chances of being accepted?
05:05 Is research a requirement for admission?
06:03 Does attending UW as an undergraduate impact (for better or worse) an application?
07:11 How can we ever prepare to write secondaries?
10:11 What are good questions to ask the Admissions Committee at the end of the interview?
13:48 What aspects of the application for medical school are the most important?
19:26 How does state residency work in the UWSOM process? (Ties to WWAMI, academic cutoffs, how we determine legal state of residence)
27:59 How does UWSOM consider “gap years”?
33:11 Is leadership important for an application?
35:29 Is there a minimum number of hours of volunteering? What sort of service might the Admissions Committee be looking for?
38:13 How do you explain a dip in your grades/the need for a postbacc?
42:07 Advice specifically for reapplicants

Relevant Web pages
Admissions Website Landing page: https://www.uwmedicine.org/school-of-...
Secondary Application: https://www.uwmedicine.org/school-of-...
Interview: https://www.uwmedicine.org/school-of-...
State Eligibility: https://www.uwmedicine.org/school-of-...
Clinical Experiences: https://www.uwmedicine.org/school-of-...