Medical School Admissions
Admission to the First-Year Class
General Information
Baylor College of Medicine welcomes applicants of ethnic diversity from all areas of the United States. BCM encourages individuals from groups underrepresented in medicine to apply.
Baylor participates in the American Medical College Application Service. A web-enabled application is available on the AMCAS site. Baylor also requires a supplemental application.
Baylor received 4,879 applications for the 176 positions in the 2008 entering class. Of those applicants, 676 were interviewed.
Among the students enrolled in the entering class of 2008, 78 percent were Texas residents and 49 percent were women. All entering students had completed work for the baccalaureate degree.
Members of the entering class represented 32 undergraduate majors from 47 undergraduate colleges throughout the nation. Students learn from one another, and the diversity exhibited by members of the entering class is an asset. Every effort is made in each step of the admissions process to assess all characteristics of each applicant, cognitive as well as non-cognitive.
Academic Credentials of Matriculated Class
The mean college grade point average of students who enrolled in 2008 was 3.85, and the average MCAT score was 34.5 (11.5).
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