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Contacts
Website: http://medicine.utah.edu/
Phone: 801-581-7498
Admissions e-mail: deans.admissions@hsc.utah.edu
Program Information
- Doctor of Medicine (MD)
- 4 years in length
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Admission statistics
- Approximate number of applicants per year: over 3800
- Approximate number of applicants interviewed: 500
- Class size: 125
- A minimum of 82% of spaces are offered to Utah residents or Utah high school, college, or university graduates.
- International students are eligible for consideration as long as they obtained their bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university in the United States or Canada.
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Admission Requirements
Course and Degree Requirements
- Degree: A Bachelor’s degree
- Required Courses
- Physics with lab: 1 year
- Chemistry with lab: 2 years including both general and organic chemistry series
- Biology: 2 courses.
- One course must be Cellular Biology or Biochemistry
- Social Science: 1 course
- history, economics, anthropology, psychology, etc.
- Humanities: 1 course
- art, music, drama, literature, etc.
- Writing/Speech: 1 year
- Emphasize written and/or verbal communications
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GPA
- Minimum: 3.00 out of 4.0 in both science and non-science courses
- Average accepted GPA :3.6
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MCAT
- Minimum scores: 123 in each section
- Average Overall scores: 492
- MCAT must have been written within 3 years of application deadline and cannot be done after September of the application year.
- Only the most recent test score is accepted
- The minimum acceptable score is 123 in each of the four sections. The average score is 508.
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Supporting Documents
- AMCAS Application Form
- Essay question
- Premedical course list
- Activities form
- State certification
- Application Fee ($100.00)
- 4 letters of Recommendation
- 2 Academic Letters
- 2 Supervisor Letters
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Evaluation Criteria
- Applicants must achieve at least the minimum level of performance in all 7 areas and be average or above in 5 out of the 7 areas in order to be eligible for further consideration.
- Grade point average (GPA)
- Minimum: 3.2
- Average: 3.6
- Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
- Minimum: 7 in each section
- Average Overall Score: 30
- Community/Volunteer services
- Minimum: 36 hours within last 4 years
- Average: 100 hours within last 4 years
- Leadership
- Minimum: 1 leadership experience lasting 3 months within the last 4 years
- Average: 3 different leadership experiences each lasting 3 months within the last 4 years
- Research
- Minimum: part of a class where applicant answered or tested a hypothesis and received a grade
- Average: hypothesis based research that is supervised by an individual with verifiable research credentials.
- Physician shadowing
- Minimum: 8 hours shadowing a physician
- Average: 24 hours with a physician(s)
- Patient exposure
- Minimum: 32 hours
- Average: 48 hours
- Grade point average (GPA)
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Interview
- Applicants invited to interview: approximately 500
- Interview dates: September to February
- Interview form: MMI, each last for 7 minutes; the entire session takes approximately 60 minutes
- Interviewers: volunteers from the fourth year medical student class and faculty representatives who are physicians, investigators, administrators or community representatives who interact with the medical students
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Timeline 2017-2018
- August 1 11:59pm EST: For Early Decision Program (EDP), last day to submit applications to AMCAS
- November 1 11:59pm EST Last day to send AMCAS application
- 30 days from the date of invitation: submit required secondary materials
- September - February : Interviews
- March 15: Notifications of acceptance deadline
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Tuition 2016-2017
- Resident
- First Year Tuition per semester: $18,193.38
- Total First Year Fees per semester: $18,751.26
- Non-Resident:
- First Year Tuition per semester: $34,443.61
- Total First Year Fees: $35,001.49
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