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Criteria Options
Upon receipt of a verified AMCAS application, the medical school admissions office will email an applicant the link for the SOM Applicant Portal.
This online tool provides access to the Secondary Application to our medical school which, among other information, will ask applicants to select the admission criteria options they wish to use to qualify for admission and courses taken or planned that fulfill that option.
Options include the following:
- 1. End-point Courses
- Applicants must list the number and name of courses taken or planned that fulfill this option
- Applicants will be given the option to list the number and name of courses taken or planned that are recommended under this option
- End Point Courses (life sciences, biochemistry, physics) or any course used to meet the course-competency map option completed 10+ years prior to applying are not acceptable. Applicants have the choice of either repeating 10-year-old courses or completing new coursework to satisfy the selected admissions option.
- Select to read more – Method 1: End Point Courses
- 2. Course-Competency Maps
- Applicants must list the number and name of courses taken and planned whose content maps to learning objectives that can provide the desired competencies.
- This option applies only to students at schools with course-competency maps previously approved by the SOM admissions committee.
- Select to read more – Method 2: Course-Competency Maps