Medical
School
Admissions
Changes for
2010
Several changes in our admissions policies and
procedures have been made for the 2010 entering class admissions cycle. They
are outlined below.
Deadline
Our AMCAS deadline is December 1, 2009.
Deadline extensions will not be granted. AMCAS applications will be processed
only when they are transmitted to us electronically by AMCAS. We will not make
supplemental applications available or make any other decision on the basis of
AMCAS applications that are printed and sent to us by applicants or others.
Applicants must change their addresses and
other contact information through AMCAS. We have no way of independently
changing any information in the AMCAS database. So please do not write to us
and ask us to change your mailing address, email address, or phone number. You
must do that yourself through AMCAS. The secondary application fee is $75.
Institutional
affinity card
When your AMCAS application arrives in the
Office of Admissions you will be sent an email stating that it has arrived. You
will also be given the URL for an on-line institutional affinity card. If your
mother or father received their MD degree from the University of Miami,
or if your mother or father is a full-time regular faculty member at the Miller
School of Medicine, go to the web site and fill out the card. If your parents
do not meet either of these criteria, do not fill out the card. Your
application will be processed in the order in which it was received, regardless
of whether you complete and return the card or not. All information submitted
is subject to verification.
Requirements
for receiving a supplemental application
The Miller School of Medicine has a new policy
of sending secondary applications to all US citizens and permanent residents
who submit an AMCAS application. It will be the applicant's decision whether to
fill out the secondary application and submit it. In this regard, all
applicants should remember that our last three entering classes had an average
undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.7, a science GPA of 3.6, and an average MCAT
composite score between 31 and 32. To be truly competitive potential applicants
should have credentials comparable to those of our most recent classes.
Supplemental applications received in the Office of Admissions after January 15th
will not be processed.
MCAT
examination
Applicants for the 2010 entering class must
take the MCAT exam no later than the last test date in 2009. MCAT scores from
January, 2010, and later test dates will not be considered.
Letters
of recommendation and transcripts
Letters of recommendation and transcripts will
be submitted to the Miller School of Medicine through AMCAS. Sending
transcripts to the School
of Medicine is strongly
discouraged unless they include substantial coursework not included on your
AMCAS application.
Campus
selection
The medical curriculum at our regional campus
in Boca Raton, Florida, is four years long. Students
admitted to the regional campus of the University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine will finish all four years of the curriculum
at Boca Raton.
Therefore, indicating which campus you would prefer to attend on your
supplemental application becomes all the more important. If you select the Miami campus to attend, you will be considered only for
admission at the Miami
campus. If you select the Boca Raton
campus to attend, you will be considered only for admission to the Boca campus.
If you indicate that you have no preference, you will be considered
independently for admission to the Miami campus
and to the Boca Raton
campus. The campuses are described elsewhere at this web site along with recent
descriptions of the curriculum at each.
MD-PhD
Program Applicants
The MD-PhD Program is offered only on the Miami campus and not at the regional campus in Boca Raton. If you are
interested in applying to our MD-PhD program you must select the Miami campus as your
preferred campus to attend. Applicants who apply only to the regional campus in
Boca Raton will
not be considered for the MD-PhD program
