About the School
The School of Medicine—the first school established by New York Medical College—owes its founding in 1860 to the vision of a group of civic leaders in New York City who believed that medicine should be practiced with greater sensitivity to patients.
Today the School of Medicine seeks to admit and retain a student body that is academically well prepared, highly motivated, gender balanced and racially and ethnically diverse. Applications to the School of Medicine totaled 7,560 in 2006, and the College accepted 10 percent of applicants for the class entering in the fall of that year. Nearly 40 percent had received acceptances from other medical schools, reflecting a growing trend of students naming New York Medical College as their first choice medical school.
More applicant stats:
- Mean GPA: 3.5
- MCAT: 30 or higher
- verbal reasoning 9.5
- physical sciences 10.2
- biological sciences 10.5
Fast Facts
- Founded: 1860
- Degrees offered: M.D., M.D./M.P.H., M.D./Ph.D.
- Tuition: $40,000 per year
- Faculty members: 2,944
- Accreditation: Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)
- Dean: Ralph A. O'Connell, M.D., Provost and Dean, School of Medicine, (914) 594-4900
Students
- 2006-2007 enrollment: 774
- Gender distribution, class of 2010: 54% female, 46% male
- NYMC Scholarships in 2005-2006: $2,700,000
- Average School of Medicine scholarship award: $13,000
- Geographic distribution of Class of 2010: graduates of 93 colleges and universities from 27 states, including 228 (31%) from New York
- Class of 2006 career choices: internal medicine (28%), pediatrics (15%), anesthesiology (11%), radiology (10%), general surgery (6%), orthopedic surgery (4%), neurology (3%), obstetrics & gynecology (3%), family medicine (3%), physical medicine & rehabilitation (3%), emergency medicine (3%)