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STUDENT INFORMATION

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Requirements for admission

Academics

Applicants must have completed at least 90 semester hours from a recognized college or university.  Although a baccalaureate degree is not required for admission, it is highly unlikely that an applicant will be admitted without a four-year college degree.

Required college course work includes:

  • English composition or writing intensive, 2 semesters
  • College-level mathematics (college algebra or above), 1 semester
  • General biology with lab, 8 hours
  • General chemistry with lab, 8 hours
  • Organic chemistry with lab, 8 hours
  • General physics with lab, 8 hours

One or two courses in biochemistry are strongly recommended, and one or two additional biology or chemistry courses are recommended. Only those courses required for science majors are acceptable; introductory survey science courses meant primarily as general education courses are not.

MCAT

The Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) is required.  Candidates may register electronically through the AAMC website at www.aamc.org. Scores older than 2005 will not be accepted. For 2009 entry, we will accept scores from exams administered through September 2008.

Letters of Reference

Three individual letters from professors who taught the applicant and issued the applicant grades are required.  It is strongly recommended that at least two of the three will be from science faculty. Letters from teaching assistants will not satisfy this requirement. Applicants may submit a premed committee or composite letter in lieu of the three individual letters.  MU appreciates colleges/universities who submit a premed committee letter as well as individual letters.  Additional letters beyond the three required may be submitted to supplement or validate other aspects of an individual’s candidacy, but the Committee requests that no more than 6 letters be sent.  Deadline for filing letters of reference is January 15.

Secondary Application

All Missouri residents will have files opened.  Residents of states contiguous to Missouri with at least a 28 MCAT and 3.5 cumulative GPA will have files opened.  Residents of contiguous states who do not meet the aforementioned criteria and residents of all other states will be asked to complete an information sheet to provide additional information.  The Associate Dean for Student Programs will review these information sheets to determine if files will be opened.  All applicants for whom files are opened will receive an invitation to complete an electronic Secondary Application. To continue consideration, applicants are asked to complete and submit the Secondary Application with $75 fee by the January 15th file completion deadline.
Write:
MU School of Medicine
MA215 Medical Sciences Building
Columbia, Missouri 65212
 
Call
(573) 882-9219
 
E-mail
MizzouMed@missouri.edu

/requirements.shtml updated 8/6/08