Did you know the NYU School of Medicine has a Long Island campus? It’s not well known among applicants! The New York University Long Island School of Medicine (NYULI) focuses heavily on primary care. Other than standing out on this NYULI secondary application, the other important way to differentiate yourself is through acing the New York University Long Island School of Medicine Multiple Mini Interview. Many of the NYULI MMI questions focus on primary care patient scenarios.
The NYU Long Island secondary prompts have changed significantly in the past two years. We would NOT recommend that you pre-write this secondary prior to the publication of official prompts.
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NYU Long Island School of Medicine Secondary Application Essays: 2025-2026
- Please check the box indicating the specific residency track for which you wish to be considered (IM/FM/Peds/OBGYN/Gen Surg) and discuss the reason(s) for your choice and which experiences listed on your AMCAS application have confirmed your decision to pursue this field of medicine in the context of primary care and why. Please also discuss any other factors- such as your academic interests, personal circumstances or life journey- that have influenced your residency choice. (350 words)
- Please provide a response to the timeline that pertains to you: (350 words)
If you have graduated from college: Please tell us what you have been doing since that time up until the present and your reasons for doing so, including your plans for the upcoming application cycle? Please also discuss how these experiences have informed you of your understanding of primary care and chosen residency track.
If you are still in college: What factors influenced your decision to apply to NYUGLISOM directly from undergrad? Please also tell us your planned academic, extracurricular, research, community service and/or work activities for the upcoming application cycle and how any of these activities align with your interest in primary care and chosen residency track? - Do you have any personal, professional, or educational ties to the Long Island, NYC-metropolitan or Tri-State (NY, NJ, CT) Areas? If so, please describe how these connections have influenced your decision to apply to NYUGLISOM and how they may impact your future plans to practice medicine. (350 words)
- (Optional) Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities that you feel would be helpful for the admissions committee to consider when conducting its holistic review of your credentials. (350 words)
- (Optional) Please feel free to share any other information that you have not already included in your AMCAS application or secondary responses that you believe would be relevant for the admissions committee to know about. (350 words)
Tips to Answer NYU Long Island Secondaries
NYULI Pre-Writing Tip: The NYU Long Island secondary prompts have changed significantly in the past two years. We would NOT recommend that you pre-write this secondary prior to the publication of official prompts.
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NYU Long Island Secondary Application Tip #1: Incorporate primary care stories and examples throughout your NYU Long Island secondaries. When you give stories, think about the implications of what you observed, and how you can improve primary care in the future. For example, in the NYU Long Island secondary essay prompt about patient-centered care, you can tell a patient story and how that patient benefited (or could better benefit) with patient-centered care. Make sure to discuss your insights and how that reflects the type of future health care provider you want to be.
NYU Long Island Secondary Application Tip #2: Don’t forget to incorporate your other community service activities and other healthcare extra-curricular activities! For example, we have had students who worked on health policy and value-based care research. We have had students who volunteer in free clinics and discuss these experiences in their NYU Long Island secondary. We recommend our students incorporate these extra-curricular activities when working with them through our secondary essay edits.
NYU Long Island Secondary Application Tip #3: You should only apply if you are sure you want to go into Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, and General Surgery. If you want to do a specialty, such as ophthalmology or ENT, this may not be the right school for you.
NYU Long Island Secondary Application Tip #4: Be familiar with Long Island. The location, patient population, and opportunities around Long Island are not synonymous with New York City, specifically the lower east side where NYU Grossman is located.
NYU Long Island Secondary Application Tip #5: New York University Long Island School of Medicine focuses on primary care. And, you need to prove to the NYU Long Island School of Medicine admissions committee that you are deeply invested in primary care. Discuss your experiences and your aspirations in primary care settings.
Read more details about both NYU Medical Schools here: How to Get Into NYU Medical School: Tips from Accepted Students
NYU Long Island Secondary Application Tip #6: For the questions about academic fluctuations, do not feel compelled that you have to answer it. DO NOT explain any B’s or B+’s (we are talking to you – applicant with mostly A’s).
Students write about the following on NYU Long Island secondary essay #1:
- Upward trends in their GPA
- C’s and lower on their transcripts
- Lower GPA during college when they were not pre-med and then discuss how their post-bacc GPA is a lot higher
- Fluctuations in academic records due to personal circumstances, including challenges during COVID-19.
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NYU Long Island School of Medicine Secondary Application Essays: 2024-2025
Prompts have changed since last year – we do not recommend pre-writing the NYU Long Island secondaries
- NYULISOM seeks to admit highly motivated candidates whose experiences and professional goals directly align with our primary care mission and demonstrate a commitment to a future career as a general practitioner in fields of medicine that are anchored in the principles of primary care and address the growing physician workforce shortages in specific medical disciplines.
To advance this mission, acceptance to NYULISOM is paired with the offer of a directed-pathway to residency into one of four designated residency programs at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island.- Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- General Surgery
Please indicate the specific residency track for which you wish to be considered and explain the reason(s) for your choice, including those experiences listed on your AMCAS application that have confirmed your decision to pursue this field of medicine in the context of primary care. If applicable, please also discuss any other factors –such as your personal journey, academic interests or activities not listed on your application— that have influenced your choice. (350 words max)
- Please provide the response that applies to you:
- If you are still in school, please tell us your planned academic, extracurricular, research, community service and/or work activities for the application cycle. (350 words max)
- If you have graduated from college, please tell us what you have been doing since that time up until the present and your reasons for doing so. Please be sure to account for all your time since graduating. (350 words max)
- (Optional) Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities that you feel would be helpful for the admissions committee to consider when conducting its holistic review of your credentials.
- (Optional) Please feel free to share any other information that you have not already included in your AMCAS application or secondary responses that you believe would be relevant for the admissions committee to know about.
NYU Long Island School of Medicine Secondary Application Essays: 2023-2024
Prompts have changed since last year – we do not recommend pre-writing the NYU Long Island secondaries
General Instructions: The NYULISOM secondary application is designed to enable the admissions committee to learn more about you and how your experiences and professional goals align with our school’s mission. All responses have a 350 word limit and must be submitted through the NYULIOSM application portal. To assure a timely review of your full credentials, you are encouraged to submit your secondary application as early as possible. A full listing of the 2024 application cycle deadlines are posted on the school’s website.
- NYULISOM seeks to admit highly motivated candidates whose experiences and professional goals directly align with our primary care mission and demonstrate a commitment to a future career as a general practitioner in fields of medicine that are anchored in the principles of primary care and address the growing physician workforce shortages in specific medical disciplines.
To advance this mission, acceptance to NYULISOM is paired with the offer of a directed-pathway to residency into one of four designated residency programs at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island.- Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- General Surgery
Please indicate the specific residency track for which you wish to be considered and explain the reason(s) for your choice, including those experiences listed on your AMCAS application that have confirmed your decision to pursue this field of medicine in the context of primary care. If applicable, please also discuss any other factors –such as your personal journey, academic interests or activities not listed on your application— that have influenced your choice. (350 words max)
- Please provide the response that applies to you:
- If you are still in school, please tell us your planned academic, extracurricular, research, community service and/or work activities for the application cycle. (350 words max)
- If you have graduated from college, please tell us what you have been doing since that time up until the present and your reasons for doing so. Please be sure to account for all your time since graduating. (350 words max)
- (Optional) Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities that you feel would be helpful for the admissions committee to consider when conducting its holistic review of your credentials.
- (Optional) Please feel free to share any other information that you have not already included in your AMCAS application or secondary responses that you believe would be relevant for the admissions committee to know about.
NYU Long Island School of Medicine Secondary Application Essays: 2022-2023
Please note: Prompts have changed since last year – we do not recommend pre-writing the NYU secondaries
- NYU LISOM offers a direct link to residency into one of four ACGME-accredited residency programs at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island in fields of medicine that address the primary care needs of the population and physician workforce shortages. Please select the residency track for which you wish to be considered and reason(s) for your choice – including those experiences (pre-medical, professional or personal) which have confirmed your interest in this area. Internal Medicine/Pediatrics/Obstetrics & Gynecology/General Surgery (Choose one). (250 word limit)
- NYU LISOM is committed to training physicians guided by the principles of primary care which encompass patient-centered care that is: comprehensive, continuous, coordinated, collaborative, culturally sensitive and community-based. Please tell us how these principles align with your professional goals as a future physician? (250 word limit)
- NYU LISOM is committed to training physicians guided by the principles of primary care which encompass patient-centered care that is: comprehensive, continuous, coordinated, collaborative, culturally sensitive and community-based. Please tell us how these principles align with your professional goals as a future physician? (250 words)
- Please answer either option A or option B
- Option A.
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a core active learning methodology at NYU LISOM which involves students working together in small groups on clinical case-based problems utilizing:
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- Self-directed learning: identifying information needed and thinking critically in applying this information to address the problem
- Self-assessment: identifying knowledge gaps or what is not understood about the problem
- Teamwork: assisting peers to integrate and apply knowledge to a given problem as well as being able to learn from peers
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Using this frame work, please share an example of a problem-solving experience you have encountered in a small-group setting or leadership role which you feel has prepared you to be successful in an active learning environment and why?
- Option B.
The NYU LISOM seeks to prepare future physician leaders who will be “change agents” in health systems science in domains such as:
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- Healthcare Policy & Economics
- Population and Public Health
- Evidence-based Medicine and Practice
- Health System Improvement and Patient Safety
- Clinical Informatics
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Which of these domains interests you the most and why? If applicable, please include those aspects of academic studies, pre-medical, or professional experiences that have informed your interest in the domain you selected.
5. If you have graduated from college, please tell us what you have been doing since that time and your reasons for doing so. (250 words)
6. Optional: Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities about which you wish the admission committee to know more. (250 words)
NYU Long Island School of Medicine Secondary Application Essays: 2021-2022
NYU Long Island Secondary Essay Prompts
- NYU LISOM offers a direct link to residency into one of four ACGME-accredited residency programs at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island in fields of medicine that address the primary care needs of the population and physician workforce shortages. Please select the residency track for which you wish to be considered and reason(s) for your choice – including those experiences (pre-medical, professional or personal) which have confirmed your interest in this area. Internal Medicine/Pediatrics/Obstetrics & Gynecology/General Surgery (Choose one). (500 word limit)
- Optional: Applicants have occasionally had to overcome significant adversities in their lives. Our admission committee would be most interested not only in hearing about how you overcame such adversity but also how doing so helped you succeed. (500 word limit)
- Optional: Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities about which you wish the admission committee to know more.