All candidates must take the MCAT no later than the fall test period of the year in which application is made. The Committee on Admissions uses in its evaluation the highest MCAT scores reported. Letters of recommendation are required of all applicants. A bachelor's degree and the MCAT, preferably taken by the spring but no later than the fall of the year of application, are required. A semester or quarter of biochemistry can be substituted for part of the organic chemistry requirement.
Any undergraduate major is acceptable.
Applicants are expected to take challenging course work in the humanities and social sciences, and they should be able to speak and write the English language correctly. U.S. citizens as well as foreign nationals should plan on taking their course work at an undergraduate institution in the United States or Canada. The medical school does not place emphasis on any major field, nor does it make specific recommendations of courses to be taken other than those mentioned above. Applicants should be liberally educated men and women who have studied in some depth subjects beyond the conventional premedical sciences. Candidates are strongly urged to take the MCAT and to meet all premedical course requirements prior to submitting an application for admission.