University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 🇺🇸MD · 4 years
At a glance
Who can apply
Non-residents with significant academic, personal or family ties to Kentucky
Nonresidents 'with significant academic, personal or family ties to Kentucky are given preference.'
Minimums: GPA 3 · MCAT total 498
Canadian citizens
Minimums: GPA 3 · MCAT total 498
International applicants
Minimums: GPA 3 · MCAT total 498
Requirements
- Biology: two semesters general biology with lab (8 hrs); AP/IB biology not accepted (if used, two upper-level human biology courses with labs required)
- General chemistry: one year with labs (8 hrs)
- Organic chemistry: one year (6 hrs); lab not required
- Physics: one year with labs (8 hrs)
- English: two semesters writing, literature and/or speech (6 hrs); AP/IB for one semester only
- Biochemistry: one semester (3 hrs)
- Statistics: recommended, not required (3 hrs)
- Grade of C or higher in prerequisites; no CLEP credit
- Minimum 3.0 cumulative and BCPM GPA
- Letters: committee letter/packet, or three individual letters (BCPM faculty, second academic, one professional); up to two additional
- Preference for applicants with a bachelor's degree
How selection works
Interview
Dates, deadlines & fees
Early Decision AMCAS deadline (EDP secondary materials due August 31; EDP decisions October 1.) · August 1 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
interviews begin · August 18 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
admission notifications begin · October 15 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
AMCAS primary deadline · November 1 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
secondary deadline (Must log in to secondary site within two weeks of notification.) · December 1 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
Commit to Enroll deadline (Dates listed without a year on the page; elsewhere the page says Commit to Enroll required 45 days prior to orientation / "July 6" — internal inconsistency.) · June 11 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
final official transcripts · July 1 (year inferred from the 2026–27 cycle)
Special programs & mission
Sources
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Where official sources disagree
- Commit to Enroll deadline: Admissions page lists June 11 in the dates table but elsewhere says Commit to Enroll is required 45 days before orientation / 'July 6'.