Boston University School of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine admissions statistics

Median or average MCAT

517Average

Median or average GPA

3.76Average

Applications received

11,4292025-2026

Entering class

1382025-2026

Applications per seat

82.82025-2026

In-state share of applications

8.6%2025-2026

In-state share of the class

32.6%2025-2026

Applications received for each seat in the entering class. Not an acceptance rate: neither source publishes the number of offers made.

Boston University School of Medicine MCAT and GPA

Boston University School of Medicine reports average MCAT of 517 and average undergraduate GPA of 3.76 for its entering class.

• MCAT517 against a median of 512 across the 152 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 82nd percentile of those programs.
• GPA3.76 against a median of 3.8 across the 155 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 29th percentile of those programs.
• Out-of-state tuition$73,965 against a median of $69,571 across the 154 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 69th percentile of those programs.
• Entering class size138 against a median of 139 across the 160 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 49th percentile of those programs.

A percentile here is against the programs that report the figure, not against every medical school and not against applicants. It says where the school sits among its reporting peers and nothing else.

Boston University School of Medicine acceptance rate

PreMD does not publish an acceptance rate for individual schools. The free national sources publish applications and matriculants, not the number of offers a school made, so an acceptance rate cannot be calculated from them without inventing the missing number.

What can be published from those figures is the ratio: Boston University School of Medicine received 11,429 applications for 138 seats in the entering class, or about 82.8 applications per seat.

Who Boston University School of Medicine accepts applications from

DACA applicants

Chobanian & Avedisian SOM has extremely limited financial resources for DACA status students.

Community college coursework: We prefer coursework be taken at a four-year college or university. Other types of courses will be considered on a case by case basis.

Boston University School of Medicine tuition and cost

In-state tuition and fees

$73,965

Out-of-state tuition and fees

$73,965

In-state cost of attendance

$104,107

Out-of-state cost of attendance

$104,107

In-state health insurance

$3,642

Out-of-state health insurance

$3,642

Students receiving aid

82%

Average graduating debt

$212,435

Deposit, in state

$500

Deposit, out of state

$500

A blank figure here means the school did not report it to the source PreMD tracks, never that it costs nothing. Check the school's own financial aid page before budgeting against it.

Boston University School of Medicine application requirements

Secondary fee

$110

Secondary deadline

December 1, 2026

Latest MCAT accepted

September 12, 2026

Oldest MCAT accepted

September 2022

Deposit due

July 1, 2026

Committee letter

Accepted

Letter packets

Accepted

Individual letters

Accepted

AAMC PREview

We are not using PREview scores in the admissions process

Who receives a secondary: All applicants.

Prerequisite coursework

Boston University School of Medicine interview

Interviews are required with at least one faculty member. These are by invitation only.

August

We require three virtual activities which may be scheduled on the same or different days: an interactive orientation to the school with the Associate Dean of Admissions, an individual faculty interview and a student-run information session.

Regional interviews

no

Video interview

Interviews conducted via Zoom.

Boston University School of Medicine waitlist

Typical positions offered

300

Acceptance offers made

20

Wait List offers are extended by telephone and applicants are given a time-frame by which a decision must be made. Financial Aid offers made available during this time to help with decision-making.

Boston University School of Medicine mission

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is dedicated to the educational, intellectual, professional, and personal development of a diverse group of exceptional students, trainees, and faculty who are deeply committed to the study and to the practice of medicine, to biomedical research, and to the health of the public. We, as a community, place great value on excellence, integrity, service, social justice, collegiality, equality of opportunity, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Chobanian & Avedisian SOM is a social justice medical school. This emphasis on social justice is evident in our curriculum and extra-curricular activities for students, in our faculty’s areas of research and expertise, and in the patients we take care of. Curriculum and Student Activities Our curriculum was updated several years ago to emphasize patient context and social determinants of health. In the classroom, our patients are never simply a patient with a disease, they are a person with a family who lives in a specific place and does a certain type of work…in the clinical setting, our students learn to address each patient’s upstream health needs as well as their acute medical needs; because we’ve learned that the best medical care in the world will fail to make patients healthier if they still lack food, housing, etc. Outside the classroom, our students’ most common activity is to participate in some of the 17 or so service learning groups, which range from the “Outreach Van” street medicine initiative to the “Teen and Tot” facilitated support group for young parents to the Socially Responsible Surgery Club which allows students to visit surgical patients pre-discharge to ensure their understanding of their surgical problem and procedure and plan for follow-up. Faculty Research and Expertise A unique feature of our social justice medical school is that we are in the context of a Tier 1 research university. While our research enterprise is very broad, you see the social justice mission thriving there as well. Examples include the Grayken Center for Addiction, which supports research, education and treatment in addition medicine, in the Health/Care Disparities Research Program within internal medicine, and the Boston SOAR (Surgical Outcomes Analysis and Research) which investigates inequalities in surgical care. 85% of our medical students engage in Research during their time at Chobanian & Avedisian SOM. Patient Population Chobanian & Avedisian SOM’s primary teaching hospital is Boston Medical Center, which serves a primarily under-served and extraordinarily diverse patient population. More than half of our patients are from vulnerable populations who rely on Medicaid and/or medicare for their health insurance; and 32% don’t speak English as their primary language. Through our 12 affiliated neighborhood health centers, we reach deep into the communities of Boston to find the patients that need us the most.

Boston University School of Medicine rankings

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Boston University School of Medicine admissions contact

(617) 358-9540 · [email protected]

Where this came from

• AAMC MSAR public school report
• AAMC FACTS table A-1, 2025-2026 · 2025-2026
• calculated by PreMD from the published application and matriculant counts · 2025-2026

Figures on this page were last reviewed on 2026-08-04.

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