Admissions

A 4-year bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.0 or higher (across all undergraduate coursework and/or institutions attended). A GPA of 3.3 is competitive; the average incoming GPA of our new students is 3.5. If your GPA is below 3.0, please consider our other physiology options .

Successful completion of all undergraduate pre-health course requirements including two semesters and a lab course in: biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics. Completion of a biochemistry course is preferred but not required.

List your postsecondary institutions in your application, and upload a transcript for each institution.

This program requires WES  or NACES  credential evaluation services for international transcripts.

Follow the transcript instructions in Admissions FAQ  to ensure you upload proper documentation.

Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation, and may choose to submit a third letter. One of the required letters of recommendation must be from a science professor who had you as a student in a science course (excluding independent research).

Applicants who submit a committee letter are not required to submit letters of recommendation; however, they may choose to submit up to two letters.

For GeorgeSquared ABS students and alumni, one of the letters must be from your assigned letter writer from the ABS program.

For your second letter, we prefer one of the following:

• An additional science professor who had you as a student in a science class
• A practitioner who supervised you in a clinical setting
• A practitioner whom you have shadowed/observed
• A research mentor/supervisor (faculty member) for wet lab or clinical research

These letters are also acceptable for your second or third letter:

• A non-practitioner supervisor from clinical setting (for example, a hospital volunteer coordinator)
• A research mentor/supervisor for “dry lab” or non-science research
• A professor from a non-science course
• An academic advisor/faculty mentor who has not had you as a student in a class
• A supervisor from non-clinical employment or volunteer work

Recommendation writers should not have any familial ties or conflicts of interest in relation to the applicant. They should not be a family member and should not be an employee, business associate, or other professional or personal affiliate of the applicant’s family members.

For any questions or concerns about recommendation writers or possible conflicts of interest, please contact us.

Your statement should be approximately 500-1,000 words – normally one page, not to exceed two. The statement should be similar in length to a professional school application essay (i.e., AMCAS limit is 5,300 characters = ~750 words; AADSAS limit is 4,500 characters = ~675 words).

For those who have previously applied to professional school, you are welcome to submit the same or a similar essay that you previously submitted to AMCAS/AADSAS/AACOMAS/CASPA/etc.

The majority of your statement should address your motivations and preparation to pursue your chosen profession (Why medicine? Why dentistry? Why a Ph.D.?) and then briefly address your motivations and goals for our program.

Your full CV/resume should include all of the following, at a minimum:

• All work (clinical and nonclinical), research, volunteer, intern, shadowing, and observing experiences with dates (month and year), name of the company/organization, and responsibilities and/or descriptions clearly noted.
• All shadowing and observing experiences should additionally have number of hours and practitioner names clearly noted.
• Cumulative GPA for each educational institution listed.
  • Cumulative GPAs listed on the resume should include all coursework, not just coursework in your major field of study.
  • The required minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA for our program is 3.0. The recommended minimum cumulative GPA is 3.3. We calculate cumulative GPA from all coursework completed across all undergraduate institutions attended..
• Minimum acceptable font size is 11pt. If necessary, please allow your CV/resume to span more than one page in order to include all requested details while maintaining readable font sizes and spacing.
• Each section of the resume should have the most recent experiences listed first, which is the most common way to organize a resume (chronologically, with experiences listed from most recent to oldest).

The application fee is nonrefundable but limited application fee waivers may be available. View information about the application fee .

Applicants to any Georgetown program may choose to submit an Optional Statement with their application that addresses diversity, personal background and contributions to community. A detailed prompt for the statement can be found in the application.

We encourage you to consider applying for the Hoyas for Science Scholarship , offered through Georgetown Biomedical Graduate Education. Please note that the scholarship has a similar prompt to the Optional Statement, and you can incorporate your Optional Statement text into your essay for this scholarship application.

GRE and MCAT scores are not required, but we encourage applicants to report these scores if they are available.

View instructions for submitting official test results

If you have previously submitted an AMCAS or AACOMAS medical school application(s), you may include it/them in your application.

All applicants are required to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the English language sufficient to meet the admission requirement of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Follow the TOEFL/IELTS instructions in Admissions FAQ  to determine whether you need to send us test scores to prove your English language proficiency.