How to Apply
AMCAS Application
New York Medical College is a member of the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS). To be considered for admission, an applicant must file his or her application with AMCAS between June 1 and December 15 prior to the year of entry.
For more information contact:
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Student Services
Lobby-26, 2501 M Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037-1300
202-828-0600.
amcas@aamc.org
Other useful information may be found at:
AspiringDocs.org, a
website to answer the questions of potential medical
school applicants. The website is a joint venture
between AAMC and its member organizations.
Applicants should NOT contact New York Medical College
to request an application, since all applicants must first submit
the AMCAS application directly to AMCAS.
Secondary Application
Upon receipt of the AMCAS applicant information, New York Medical College will email a login and password to access the secondary online application. All applicants receive a secondary application. It must be completed online by January 31. It is strongly recommended that you thoroughly review the selection criteria before submitting a secondary application.
There is a $100 application fee that may be submitted electronically with a credit card or by check. New York Medical College does participate in the AMCAS Fee Waiver Program. This application fee partially covers the cost of processing each application and is non-refundable. On the secondary application, applicants are asked to list who will be submitting letters of evaluations on their behalf. The application cannot be considered complete until all required letters have been received by the AMCAS Letter Participation Program.
Important Dates
| Regular Application Entering 2010 | Early Decision Application Entering 2010 | |
|---|---|---|
| Deadline for submitting AMCAS application | December 15, 2009 | August 1, 2009 |
| Deadline forsubmitting Secondary Application to NYMC | January 31, 2010 | August 31, 2009 |
| Interviews | October – April | September |
| Decisions | On a rolling basis | No later than October 1 |
| Start Date | Early August 2010 | Early August 2010 |
Letters of Evaluation
Letters of evaluation play an important part in the application process. Please keep in mind the following:
- Recommendations are most meaningful when the letter writer has personally known the applicant through class discussion in a small class or lab or conversations outside of class.
- Applicants whose letters meet the requirements listed below have the strongest applications. Please read these instructions carefully.
Requirements for letters of evaluation:
- All letters must be on official letterhead.
- Please request that your AMCAS ID number be included on your letters of evaluation.
- All letters of evaluation must be submitted directly to AMCAS. New York Medical College participates in the AMCAS Letter Participation Program. AMCAS will accept letters from Interfolio, Virtial Evals and U.S. Mail. Please do not have letters of evaluation sent directly to New York Medical College.
- Applicants applying for a second time must resubmit their letters of evaluation through AMCAS.
- If you graduated prior to 2007 (not including 2007) and are unable to obtain letters of evaluation from your school, we will accept other academically oriented letters. However, keep in mind that providing us with the requested letters will strengthen your application.
- All letters must be submitted to AMCAS before January 31.
Undergraduate Letters
- If your college has a premedical advisory committee, a letter of evaluation from the committee is preferred and will fulfill all undergraduate letter requirements. A committee letter does not require the names of individual letter writers.
- If your college does not have a premedical committee, letters of evaluation from three undergraduate professors including at least two from science courses (biology, chemistry, physics, biomedical engineering or bioengineering) are required. Math is not considered a science for purposes of letters of evaluation. The letters of evaluation must come from faculty who have taught you in class or have supervised independent research for which you have received credit toward your science GPA.
- One letter of evaluation must be from the department in which you majored (as identified in your AMCAS application), whether science or non-science.
- Employment references, personal references, and references from volunteer work are not a substitute for academic references but can be submitted as supplements to the required references.
Graduate School Letters
If you have attended graduate school, we request the following letters in addition to the undergraduate letters described above:
- If you are a matriculated graduate student or have completed a graduate degree, a letter from a faculty member in your department major is required. This must come from faculty who have taught you in class or have supervised independent research for which you have received credit. If the letter is from a science faculty, it can substitute for one undergraduate science letter.
- If you have just begun your graduate studies, or are in a non-degree program, you must submit one letter of evaluation from a faculty member whose graduate level class you attended or are attending this semester. This does not take the place of the two required undergraduate science letters.
Interview Process
- After your application is complete, the New York Medical College Committee on Admissions selects, for personal interview, those applicants under serious consideration. Files are reviewed throughout the year, and all interviews are by invitation. Interviews are generally conducted from October through April and applicants may be invited at any time during that period.
- The letter of invitation will be sent via email. It includes a list of current students who have volunteered to serve as overnight hosts when available. Applicants can call or email the students directly to make arrangements to stay with one of them the night before the interview.
- For more on visiting campus please see travel information.
- The interview day program runs from 8:00 am to 1:15 pm. Applicants have one or two interviews. The second interviewer is frequently a fourth-year medical student. All interviewers are members of the Committee on Admissions.
- Decisions are made on a rolling basis and we expect to notify applicants of our decision approximately ten weeks after the interview date, although it could take longer. If the Committee takes favorable action, a letter of acceptance will be forwarded to the applicant, who will then have two weeks to accept in writing a place in the class. By May 15, a non-refundable deposit of $100 is required to reserve a place in the entering class. This deposit is deducted from the first tuition payment.