Selection Criteria

The selection process is highly competitive. Account is taken of the following: excellence in course work at the college level; capabilities as judged by college instructors and premedical committees; the results of the Medical College Admissions Test; and the results of an interview at the School.

It is not possible to interview all applicants. Only those students who, on the basis of application data, appear to merit serious consideration for admission are selected for an interview. The strength of the applicant pool is such that in recent years interviews have been granted to only 11 percent of the candidates who apply.

Although the majority of first-year students range between 21 and 24 years of age, there is no upper age limit

Criminal Background Check

It is the recommendation of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that all US medical schools obtain a national background check on applicants upon their initial, conditional acceptance to medical school. The basis for performing criminal background checks on accepted medical school applicants is the need to insure the safety and well-being of patients and to ascertain the ability of accepted applicants to eventually become licensed physicians.Based on this recommendation, the AAMC has initiated an AMCAS-facilitated national background check service, through which Certiphi Screening, Inc. (a Vertical Screen® Company) obtains a national background report on applicants when they are accepted. (There is no additional fee associated with a background check.) In addition, beginning in May of each year, a national background report will be procured for a subset of applicants who are on a participating school's alternate list; medical schools will not receive such reports until the point of acceptance. The AAMC has initiated this service to recognize the desire of medical schools to procure appropriate national criminal history reports, and to prevent applicants from paying additional fees at each medical school to which they are accepted.The Policy Statement of the New York University School of MedicineBeginning with the 2010-2011 application cycle, all conditionally accepted applicants and alternate-listed applicants will be required to consent to, submit to, and successfully pass a criminal background check through the AMCAS-facilitated criminal background check vendor, Certiphi Screening, Inc., as a condition of matriculation to the NYU School of Medicine. Failure to do so will amount to failure to meet the pre-matriculation requirements established by the School of Medicine and will result in the withdrawal of a conditionally accepted offer.Matriculation and continued enrollment in the School of Medicine is contingent upon a completed criminal background check with acceptable results. Failure to consent to a criminal background check; refusal to provide necessary information to conduct a background check; failure to provide additional information wherein an investigation is warranted; and failure to comply with the investigatory procedures when a cause for further action is warranted due to (1) the discovery of previously undisclosed information; (2) the discovery of more egregious information than was previously disclosed; or, (3) the discovery of conflicting information between or among the AMCAS Application and/or the Secondary Application, MSTP Supplemental Application and/or the Criminal Background Check Report and/or any and all documents considered part of an applicant's AMCAS application, will result in disciplinary action up to, and including, withdrawal of a conditional offer of acceptance, refusal of admission, or dismissal from the School of Medicine.

International Applicants

In view of the large number of applications to the School and the difficulties involved in the application procedure for students abroad, foreign candidates are not encouraged to apply if they are not permanent residents of the United States. However, Canadian citizens are eligible to apply to the MD program. They are not eligible for MD/PhD. Students who have failed in another medical school are not eligible to apply for admission. In recent years, the school has not accepted any transfer students.

New York University School of Medicine is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its relations with its faculty, students, and staff members, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age or handicap. It is the policy of New York University School of Medicine, in accordance with Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin or handicap in any educational program or activity. Furthermore, it is the policy of New York University School of Medicine, in accordance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, not to discriminate on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity. In regard to all its employees, New York University School of Medicine is firmly committed to a policy of equal opportunity through affirmative action.