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Contacts

Website: http://www.nymc.edu/
Phone: (914) 594-4507
Admissions e-mail: mdadmit@nymc.edu

Program Information

• Doctor of Medicine (MD): 4 years in length
• Combined MD/PhD Program
• Combined MD/MPH (Masters of Public Health) Program
  
• Target class size: 190

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Admission Requirements

Course and Degree Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Canada or U.S is recommended.
• No preference for a major field of undergraduate study, but the credits submitted must include chemistry, physics, biology and English with substantial laboratory work.
• Required Courses:
  • General Biology, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
  • Inorganic or General Chemistry, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
  • Organic Chemistry, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs (one semester of Biochemistry with lab may be substituted for second semester organic chemistry or its equivalent).
  • Physics, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
  • English, 2 semesters or equivalent (or successful completion of the English requirements of your undergraduate institution’s requirement for graduation).

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GPA

• No minimum required GPA.
• Average GPA: 3.6
• For more information, click here "Admissions Q5"

MCAT

• The MCAT must be taken between January of 2010 and September 2012.
• If there are more than one set of MCAT scores, the most recent one is given greater consideration.
• No minimum required MCAT score.
• Average MCAT score: 31

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Supporting Documents

• AMCAS online application
• Secondary Application + non-refundable fee of $110
• Letters of Evaluation:
  • One letter of evaluation from premedical committee; OR,
  • 3 letters of evaluation:
    • Two must be from science professors who have taught the applicant or have supervised independent research and one from a non-science faculty member
    • One letter of evaluation must be from the department in which the applicant majored - whether science or non-science
• Employment references, personal references, and references from volunteer work are not substitutes for academic references but can be submitted as supplements to the required references.
• If the applicant has attended graduate school, a letter from a faculty member in the applicant's department major in addition to the undergraduate letters described above are required.

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Interview

• After the application is complete, the NYMC invites, for personal interview, those applicants under serious consideration.
• Interviews are generally conducted from mid-September through April. The interview day program runs from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm.
• NYMC uses the MMI format: Applicants cycle through 8 different scenarios, each 2 minutes of preparation and 6 minutes of discussion

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Timeline

• Regular Application Entering 2013:
  • December 15, 2012: Deadline for submitting AMCAS application
  • January 31, 2013: Deadline for submitting Secondary Application and all supporting documents
  • mid-September to April: Interviews are held
  • Admission Decisions: On a rolling basis
  • Early August 2013: Classes start
• Early Decision Application Entering 2013:
  • August 1, 2012: Deadline for submitting AMCAS application
  • August 31, 2013: Deadline for submitting Secondary Application and all supporting documents
  • September: Interviews are held
  • Admission Decisions: No later than October 1
  • Early August 2013: Classes start

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Tuition 2012-2013

• Tuition (Class of 2016): $47,890
• On-campus budget total: $73,774

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