Regular Admissions is the standard process by which students enter the College of Medicine. All completed applications undergo holistic review , guided by the Premed Competencies for Entering Medical Students that the AAMC has identified, that include consideration of academic performance, MCAT scores, letters of recommendation, essays, personal attributes, and experiences including but not limited to medicine, service, leadership, and research.
Applications are reviewed by the Assistant Dean for Admissions, faculty committee members and Office of Admissions staff, and competitive applicants are invited to interview. Each year, the College of Medicine matriculates approximately students through Regular Admissions. Applicants will be carefully appraised on the basis of personal attributes, academic record, evaluation of achievements, references, performance on the Medical College Admissions Test MCAT and personal interviews, if granted by the medical student admissions committee.
Applicants currently pursuing graduate level work toward a Ph. The College of Medicine does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, creed, age, national origin or disability. Further details on technical standards for medical school admission may be accessed here. Although Florida residents are given preference in admission, the College of Medicine welcomes applications from nonresidents and admits a limited number each year.
The College of Medicine values all majors and fields of study and welcomes applicants with strong backgrounds in both the basic sciences and liberal arts. We have no preference as to the delivery format of coursework: in person, distance learning or hybrid. There are no waivers for prerequisite coursework, but substitutions of higher level graded coursework in the same or related disciplines are accepted at the discretion of the admissions committee.
The minimum science admissions requirements include the following basic introductory courses and laboratories, suitable for a science curriculum:. A 3 or 4 semester hour biochemistry course will fulfill our requirement.
