Loma Linda Medicine
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Contacts
Website: http://www.llu.edu/medicine/index.page
Phone: (909) 558-4467
Admissions e-mail: admissions.sm@llu.edu
Program Information
Curriculum
- Degree offered: M.D
- 4 years in length
- Joint programs are available. Descriptions can be found here
Admission statistics
- Total number of applicants in 2013: 5677
- Class size in 2013: 200
- Total enrolment in 2016: 720
- International students are eligible to apply
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Admission Requirements
Course and Degree Requirements
- Applicants are recommended to have completed a bachelor’s degree at an accredited college or university
- Required Courses
- General Biology (excludes Microbiology and Anatomy and Physiology) + lab – one full academic year (6 McGill credits)
- General or Inorganic Chemistry + lab – one full academic year (8 McGill credits)
- General Physics + lab – one full academic year (8 McGill credits)
- Organic Chemistry + lab – one full academic year (8 McGill credits)
- Biochemistry + recommended lab - one academic term (4 McGill credits)
- Recommended introductory courses in:
- Statistics
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Note: AP credits for the required science courses are generally not accepted. Since McGill accepts these, upper year science courses in the same area can be substituted.
Supplementary Requirements
- MCAT
- All applicants must finish the MCATs prior to consideration by the admissions committee
- MCAT scores older than 3 years from date of matriculation are not considered
- For the 2018 application cycle, the earliest MCAT accepted is taken in 2015.
- Applicants are required to have prior experience shadowing a physician
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GPA
- Minimum: unknown
- Average accepted GPA in 2016: 3.80
- Average MCAT in 2016: 508
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MCAT
- Median / Average score: 31
- Average score in each subsection: 10
- Test must have been written within 4 years of application deadline
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Supporting Documents
Application is done through AMCAS, click here
- Verified AMCAS application
- On-line supplementary application
- Letters of recommendation
- MCAT test scores
- $75.00 USD (non-refundable)
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Interview
- Interviews are by invitation only.
Timeline 2017-2018
- May: Application is available via AMCAS
- Jun - Aug: Early Decision applications are submitted and completed, including letters of recommendation and supplementary application & fee.
- 01 Aug: Deadline for submitting the Early Decision Program AMCAS Application.
- 15 Aug 2016: Deadline for receipt of all Early Decision Program application materials.
- 01 Oct 2016: Early Decision applicants are notified of the Admissions Committee decision.
- Jul - Nov AMCAS applications and letters of recommendations are received by the Admissions Office. Invitations to complete the supplementary application are sent via email.
- 01 Nov: Deadline for submitting the AMCAS application.
- 15 Nov: Deadline for receipt of all application information, including the supplementary application & fee.
- Jul-April: Applications are reviewed. Invitations to interviews sent via email.
- Dec - Jun: Offers of admission are made on a rolling basis.
- 30 April: Deadline for applicants holding multiple acceptances to withdraw their acceptance from all medical schools except the one to which they plan to enroll.
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Tuition 2017-2018
- Tuition: $52,880.00 USD
- Fees: $3,488
- Books/Supplies: $1,517.00 USD
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Financial Aid is available; please click here
