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July 21, 2025

Reapplicants, Red Flags, and Ridiculous Prompts: Let’s Talk Secondaries

If you’re deep in the weeds of secondary essays, this video is for you. We sat down to talk through the most common questions we're getting from students this cycle, from whether reapplicants need to rewrite everything to how to answer weird prompts like “What will you hate about being a doctor?” We also cover the usual suspects: UCLA’s confusing mission-driven questions, Virginia Tech’s fictional character curveball, and UCSD’s monstrous 6,000-character autobiography.

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