University of South Carolina Medicine
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Contacts
Website: http://admissions.med.sc.edu/
Phone: (803) 216-3625
Admissions e-mail: Admissions@uscmed.sc.edu
Program Information
- Doctor of Medicine (MD)
- 4 years in length
- Class size expected for 2014: 100
Admission Requirements
Judging criteria
- 1/3 for MCAT and GPA
- 1/3 letter of recommendations and work/volunteer experiences (3 Letters of Recommendation)
- 1/3 interviews and personal attributes
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Course and Degree Requirements
- Degree: Preference is given to applicants who will, upon enrollment, hold a bachelor's degree.Applicants occasionally are admitted on the basis of 90 semester hours of outstanding undergraduate achievement.
- Required Courses
- minimum six (6) credits of English composition and literature
- minimum six (6) credits of general Biology (Biology, Zoology or Botany, no more than 4 semester hours may be Botany)
- minimum six (6) credits of introductory inorganic chemistry with laboratory work
- minimum six (6) credits of organic chemistry with laboratory
- Recommended Courses
- histology, biochemistry and physics are strongly preferred
- College Level Examination Placement (CLEP) and Advanced Placement (AP) credits are acceptable, provided that such credits have been accepted by an undergraduate school toward a degree, are clearly indicated on the official transcript, and do not represent more than 25 percent of all undergraduate credit awarded. Applicants with CLEP or AP credit in basic premedical courses are advised to take a full year of course work in the same area at the more advanced level.
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Technical Standards
All candidates for admission for the M.D. program should possess sufficient physical, intellectual, interpersonal, social, emotional, psychological, and communication abilities to:
- establish appropriate relationship with a wide range of faculty members, professional colleagues, and patients
- obtain a medical history and perform physical and mental examinations with a wide variety of paitnes.
- conduct tests and perform laboratory work
- ultimately make logical diagnostic and therapeutic judgments
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GPA
- Minimum: not specified
- Average accepted GPA 2013: 3.3 (B+)
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MCAT
- Test results within the last five years are valid and taken no later than the fall by the end of September of the year of application
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Selection Criteria
- MCAT score and GPA;
- Letters of recommendations and work/volunteer experiences; and
- Interviews and personal attributes
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Timeline
- May 3, 2016: AMCAS Application Opens
- June 7, 2016: AMCAS Application Opens for Submission
- July 22, 2016: Early Decision MCAT Deadline
- August 1, 2016: Early Decision AMCAS Deadline
- August 15, 2016: Early Decision Supplemental Materials Deadline
- September 10, 2016: Last MCAT Test Date accepted for Fall 2017
- October 1, 2016: Early Decision Notification Deadline
- December 1, 2016: AMCAS Application Deadline
- January 15, 2017: Supplemental Materials Deadline
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Tuition 2013-2014
- In-State Resident First Year Tuition: $35,498 USD
- Out-of-State Resident First Year Tuition: $$79,612
- Application Deposit(Applied toward first year tuition): $250
- Supplementary Application Fee(nonrefundable): $95 USD
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Financial Aid is available. For more information, click here
