University of Rochester School of Medicine

MD program · private · New York

Median GPA

3.82

entering class

Median MCAT

517

entering class

Acceptance rate

~3.2%

approximate

Class size

103

27% in-state

In-state vs. out-of-state

27% of the last entering class were New York residents, which leaves about 75 seats for everyone else.

New York resident

~7%

estimated odds

Out-of-state

~6%

estimated odds

Estimates for an applicant with this school's median GPA (3.82) and MCAT (517), from AAMC and AACOM applicant outcomes and this school's published figures. Residency moves the estimate little here. Estimates, not guarantees.

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What they look for

  • Academics27%
  • Clinical experience24%
  • Research21%
  • Service19%
  • Leadership9%

Rochester is the home of the biopsychosocial model, and its Double Helix Curriculum puts that framework and early clinical exposure at the centre of training, so an applicant who can talk about patients as whole people in social context is speaking the school's own language rather than using a generic phrase. The school trains humanistic physicians who lead in clinical care, research and health system innovation, and about 92% of students do research during medical school even though it is not required. Clinical experience is judged on quality and depth rather than hours accumulated.

Watch out: Rolling admissions gives a real advantage to early applicants. A file with many shallow clinical experiences reads against a school that explicitly weighs depth, and a purely biomedical framing misses what the biopsychosocial identity is about.

Our reading of this school's own published mission and selection criteria, not an official formula. How we source this

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