M.A. in Medical Sciences:
Admission Requirements
Applicants who are a good fit for the M.A. in Medical Sciences program will already be good candidates for admission to medical school, but need to strengthen their academic preparation. Applicants must hold the baccalaureate with an undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. In addition, all medical school prerequisites must have been completed (i.e., one year of biology, one year of general chemistry, one year of organic chemistry, one year of physics and one year of mathematics, preferably calculus). Applicants are strongly encouraged to have completed at least the equivalent of an undergraduate minor in one of the natural sciences. Application documents include:
- An application to the Loyola University Chicago Graduate School
- Official MCAT scores with a minimum required score of 25; the oldest MCAT score considered is three years prior to date of entrance to MAMS.
- Official transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate institutions attended
- A personal statement that conveys your motivation for becoming a physician, and shares experiences that have contributed to your decision
- Students who have applied to medical school must submit an officially processed, accepted copy of their most recent completed AMCAS, TMDSAS, or AACOMAS application and may use the personal statement there to meet the above requirement. This copy can be sent in PDF or paper format, and does not have to be directly transmitted from the application service. An “in progress” or unofficial application may be sent by students who are first time applicants to medical school who have not yet completed an application cycle, if AACOM, AAMC, or TMDSAS has not yet completed review of the application.
- A medical school application history must be provided. (How many times have you applied for entry into medical school and what were the results? Were you given any interviews or placed on waitlists?)
- Students who have not applied to medical school before should provide a detailed account of their extracurricular experiences (an expanded resume). Discuss any clinical, employment, teaching, leadership and research experiences you’ve had along with a brief description of what you learned from each experience.
- Three letters of recommendation appropriate for a medical school application and/or the committee letter written by your undergraduate institution. Letters of special value to the MAMS application review committee include an evaluation of your performance in non-research associated clinical patient contact settings. Academic and research letters are also useful.
- Applicants are reminded that medical schools now routinely complete national background checks on conditionally accepted applicants. Acceptances to medical school can be rescinded depending on the criminal history, military discharge status, or other factors revealed by this check, based on physician licensure and patient safety concerns. Early self disclosure of these types of issues is in the best interest of applicants.
Students who are unsure if their application is complete should contact GPEM (Graduate and Professional Enrollment Management) by e-mail at gradapp@luc.edu, or by phone at 1-(312) 915-8950
NOTE, our final deadline for admitted applicants to accept their admission and enroll in the program is July 15th. However, the huge increase in numbers of applications to this program each year lead us to strongly encourage highly qualified applicants to complete their applications well prior to our May 15th Scholarship Priority Consideration Deadline.
