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.
Applicants should not contact New York
Medical College to request an application, since all applications must begin by submitting
the AMCAS application directly to AMCAS.
Important Dates
Deadline
Regular Application
Entering 2004
Early Decision Application
Entering 2004
Deadline for submitting AMCAS application
December 15, 2003
August 1, 2003
Deadline for submitting Secondary
Application to NYMC
January 31, 2004
August 31, 2003
Interviews
October - April
September
Decisions
On a rolling basis
No later than October 1
Start Date
Late July 2004
Late July 2004
Secondary
Application
Upon receipt of the AMCAS
applicant information, New York Medical College will e-mail its
secondary application to the applicant. All applicants receive a
secondary application. It must be completed on-line by January 31. The
$100 application fee can be submitted electronically with a credit card
or by check. This application fee partially covers the cost of
processing each application and cannot be returned. On the secondary
application, applicants are asked to list exactly who will be submitting
letters of evaluations for them. The application cannot be considered
complete until all letters indicated on the secondary application have
arrived at the Office of Admissions.
Letters of
Evaluation
Letters of evaluation play an important
part in the application process. Two general points need to be emphasized. First, these
recommendations are most meaningful when the letter writer has personally known the
applicant. This can occur through class discussion in a small class or lab or through
conversations outside of class. Second, applicants whose letters meet the requirements
listed below have the strongest applications. It's therefore best if applicants read these
instructions carefully and do their best to comply.
Undergraduate Letters
Whenever possible, a Premedical Advisory Committee letter of
evaluation is preferred.
If your college does not have a Premedical Committee,
letters of evaluation from three undergraduate professors (including at least
two from science faculty) are required. 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 nonscience.
Employment references, personal references, and references
from volunteer work are not a substitute for academic references. They can, however, be
submitted as supplements to the required references.
Graduate School Letters
If you have attended graduate school, we
request the following in addition to the undergraduate letters previously described:
If you are a matriculated graduate student or have completed
a graduate degree, a letter from a faculty member in your department is required. It
must be from a faculty member whose class you attended or with whom you did research. If
your graduate program is in the sciences, this letter can substitute for one of the
undergraduate science letters.
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.
General Information about Letters of
Evaluation
All letters must be on official letterhead.
Please request that your social security number
and AMCAS ID number be included
on your letters of evaluation.
All letters must be submitted directly to our office by the
Premedical Committee, the career placement office, or the individual recommender.
Applicants may not submit letters directly. Mail to:
Office
of Admissions
New
York Medical College
Valhalla,
NY 10595
Re-applicants must resubmit their Letters of
Evaluation.
If you graduated prior to
2000 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 before the January 31
deadline.
Interviews
After your application is complete, the
Admissions Committee 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 to April and applicants may be
invited at any time during that period.
When invited, applicants are asked to call for
an interview date and are given a range of available dates to choose from. The
letter of invitation will be emailed. It includes a list of current students who have volunteered to
serve as overnight hosts. Applicants can call or email the students directly to make
arrangements to stay with one of them the night before the interview.
Travel information that describes transportation options
and local hotels is available on our web site.
The interview day program runs from
8:00am to
1:15pm. Applicants have one or two interviews, depending on interviewer
availability. The second interviewer is frequently a Fourth Year student. All
interviewers are members of the Committee on Admissions. Decisions are made on
a rolling basis. We expect to notify applicants of our decision within
ten weeks of 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 then will 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 deductible from
the first tuition payment.
