Weill Cornell Medicine

MD program · private · New York

Median GPA

3.90

entering class

Median MCAT

518

entering class

Acceptance rate

~2.3%

approximate

Class size

106

33% in-state

In-state vs. out-of-state

33% of the last entering class were New York residents, which leaves about 71 seats for everyone else.

New York resident

~10%

estimated odds

Out-of-state

~4%

estimated odds

Estimates for an applicant with this school's median GPA (3.90) and MCAT (518), from AAMC and AACOM applicant outcomes and this school's published figures. Where you live makes a big difference here. Estimates, not guarantees.

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What they look for

  • Academics30%
  • Research23%
  • Clinical experience20%
  • Service18%
  • Leadership9%

Weill Cornell publishes an unusually specific list of demonstrated abilities: thriving in an academically rigorous environment, critically evaluating complex issues and formulating and pursuing research questions, contributing to communities in impactful ways, working collaboratively and leading for the benefit of patients and the broader community, adapting and showing resilience under challenge, and inspiring and engaging others. Alongside science preparation the school explicitly wants a broad liberal arts education with demonstrated accomplishment in the humanities and social sciences, which makes a humanities record a genuine asset here rather than a curiosity.

Watch out: A narrow science-only record misses a stated expectation. Activities that show participation but not impact, leadership or resilience under difficulty leave several of the named abilities undemonstrated.

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