New York Medical College Medical School Admissions Secondary Application Instructions

• All secondary applications must be completed no later than January 31, 2009. If you are applying to the Early Decision Program (EDP) the Secondary Application must be submitted by August 31, 2008.

• Your application to New York Medical College can only be considered after you have sent us the following required materials:
  1. A fully completed online Secondary Application and application fee, and
  2. All required Letters of Evaluation, and
  3. Any additional information that may be requested by the Office of Admissions
      
• You can check your application status online throughout the year by using your assigned user name and user password.
• The Committee on Admissions will review applications as they are completed.
• You may be invited for an interview via e-mail following the Committee's review or your application may be held for later review. We interview on campus, by invitation only, generally from October through April. Decisions are made on a rolling basis.

We try hard to process and review applications promptly. You can assist us in several ways:

• Apply early. The earlier your application is complete, the earlier we can review your file.
• Check your status online.  Please try not to call the Office of Admissions on a regular basis to check on the status of your application. When we are busy answering phones we are not free to process applications.

Please report any change in your name, social security number, postal address or e-mail address directly to AMCAS. If you think there may be confusion about the name that your evaluation letters use, you can alert us to that, but the official change must be reported through AMCAS.

PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY. IF YOUR APPLICATION IS INCOMPLETE OR INCORRECT IT WILL ONLY DELAY YOUR PROGRESS. IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO COMPLETE THE ENTIRE SECONDARY APPLICATION YOU MAY BEGIN NOW AND RETURN AT A LATER DATE TO COMPLETE. ALL INFORMATION ENTERED WILL BE SAVED.

In order to apply to New York Medical College you must meet the following conditions. It is your responsibility to make sure that you meet all requirements. Please do not apply if you do not meet these conditions.

1. All courses offered in satisfaction of the requirements for admission must be taken in, or accepted as transfer credits by, an accredited college in the United States or Canada and must be acceptable to that institution toward a baccalaureate degree in arts or sciences. This includes Advanced Placement courses taken in high school.
2. You must have successfully completed these premed requirements, or have them in progress:
   • General Biology, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
   • General Chemistry, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
   • Organic Chemistry, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
   • Physics, 2 semesters or equivalent, with labs
   • English, 2 semesters or equivalent (or successful completion of the English requirements of your undergraduate institution)
3. You must have taken the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) between April 2006 and September 2008. MCAT scores from tests taken prior to April 2006 will not be accepted.

Please do not complete this application if you have had scholastic difficulty in any medical school or have been dropped from the rolls of any medical school.

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS CANNOT BE REVIEWED.

General Information about Letters of Evaluation

• Our Mailing address is:

New York Medical College

Office of Admissions, Room 147

Administration Building

Valhalla, NY 10595

• All letters must be on official letterhead.
• Please request that your AMCAS ID be included on your letters.
• All letters must be submitted directly to us by the Premedical Committee, the career placement office, the individual letter writer, or an approved online evaluation service. You may not submit letters yourself.
• Re-applicants must re-submit Letters of Evaluation.
• All required documents must be postmarked by January 31, 2009.

NOTE: If you graduated prior to 2006 (this does not include 2006) 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.
 

Undergraduate School Letters

• If your college has a Premedical Advisory Committee, a Letter of Evaluation from the Committee is preferred and will fulfill all undergraduate 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 (biology, chemistry, physics, biomedical engineering or bioengineering). These must come from faculty who have taught you in class or have supervised independent research for which you have received credit.
• One Letter of Evaluation must be from the department in which you majored, whether science or non-science.
   

Graduate School Letters

If you are a matriculated graduate student or you have completed a graduate degree, please read this section.

In addition to the undergraduate evaluation letters:

•  A letter from a faculty member in your department 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.
   

Optional Letters

• Letters from employers and/or volunteer clinical and community service experiences can be important. Although not required, letters from such experiences where you have spent significant amounts of time are recommended.
• Employment references and references from volunteer work are excellent but they do not substitute for academic references.
• Additional evaluations do not need to be listed unless you need to verify it has been received when you check your application status online.

 

STEP 3: COMPLETE THE SECONDARY APPLICATION **IMPORTANT**  You will need to provide a credit card for electronic payment and ALL information for all evaluation letters.

• Please enter all information on the Secondary Application.

   

  1. If applicable, under Faculty and /or Employee information, type the name of the relative, hospital name, department and the position or title of the relative. Use the arrow button to indicate your relationship to the faculty member/employee.
  2. If applicable, under Alumni Relatives, type the name and year of graduation from NYMC for any alumnus relative(s) you have.  Use the arrow button to indicate the school/program and your relationship to the alumnus.  If you choose Graduate Medical Education Program/Residency, enter the hospital and department.
  3. If you are submitting a Committee Letter from your undergraduate school, please check the appropriate box and enter the name of the college you attended.  (A committee letter must be signed on behalf of a committee by one of its members.)  Otherwise, for each letter of evaluation entered, please type in the name and title of the evaluator, the course name and number, the name of your undergraduate or graduate college where you took the course, and the number of credit hours earned.  It is very important that you indicate which of the letters you submit are in your undergraduate major by checking the appropriate box.
  4. If you are submitting optional letters of evaluation, please type in the name and title of the evaluator and the name of the institution.

  5. If your graduate studies will begin in Fall of 2008 please enter the graduate recommendation letter information as follows:

      

     • Under Evaluator name                        TBA
     • Under Evaluator Title                          TBA
     • Under Course number                         99
     • Under College name                           Enter name of graduate school
     • Under Course name                            TBA
     • Under Credits earned                          99

      
     When you have the graduate recommendation letter information you should email us at mdadmit@nymc.edu.

   

• You must use the same name on all documents that you supplied to AMCAS.

• The $100 non-refundable application fee can be processed electronically or by submitting a check and or fee waiver stub..  Please follow the instructions at the end of the application.