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 autogenerated, 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/schoolof...
Secondary Application: https://www.uwmedicine.org/schoolof...
Interview: https://www.uwmedicine.org/schoolof...
State Eligibility: https://www.uwmedicine.org/schoolof...
Clinical Experiences: https://www.uwmedicine.org/schoolof...