If you’re looking to apply for medical schools in Wisconsin, the two schools you should look into are Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. So before you apply to any of these Wisconsin schools, be sure to check out their admission requirements and statistics to weight your decision on whether or not you want to apply to them.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Academic Requirements
- It is required to take that MCAT to apply.
Perquisites
- Biology: 8 graded credit hours including 2 lab hours
- Inorganic Chemistry: 8 graded credit hours including 2 lab hours
- Organic Chemistry: 8 graded credit hours including 2 lab hours
- Physics: 8 graded credit hours
- English: 6 graded credit hours
- Mathematics: Algebra at the high school or college level
Admission Information (from 2011)
- The primary application service is AMCAS.
- Early application deadline is August 1, 2011.
- General application deadline is November 1, 2011.
- Secondary application deadline is January 31, 2012.
- All official transcripts must be submitted by August 1st of the matriculation year directly from the your college or educational institution.
- Requires academic letters of recommendations.
- Student who are accepted must register in person and registration usually begins the second week of August. There is a $250 late fee for students who are more than 15 minutes late to registration.
Admission Statistics (from 2008)
A total of 6,429 (652 in-state, 5,777 out-of-state) students applied and only 430 (124 in-state, 306 out-of-state) students were accepted. The Medical College of Wisconsin’s acceptance rate is about 6.7%. The acceptance rate for in-state applicants is about 19% whereas it is about 5.3% for applicants out-of-state.
Contact Information
Phone: (414) 955-8246
Fax: (414) 955-0121
Email: medschool@mcw.edu
University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Academic Requirements
- Minimum requirement MCAT score of 22 or above is required to apply.
- Minimum GPA of 2.8 or above is required to apply.
Perquisites
- General Biology with Lab: 1 semester
- Advanced Biology with Lab: 1 semester
- Inorganic/General Chemistry with Lab: 2 semester
- Organic Chemistry: 1 semester
- Biochemistry: 1 semester
- Physics with Lab: 2 semester
- Statistics: 1 semester
- Mathematics*: 1 semester
*(Calculus recommended).
Admission Information (from 2011)
- The primary application service is AMCAS.
- Primary application deadline is November 1, 2011.
- Secondary application deadline is December 1, 2011 with a fee of $56.
- Requires four letters of recommendation, three academic and one non-academic.
- Interviews begin late September until early March.
- Final decision may take from four to six weeks after the interview.
- You have two weeks to accept of receiving your letter of acceptance.
Admission Statistics (from 2008)
In general, the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health gets about 4,000 applicants a year and only 500-600 applicants receive an interview. That’s about 13.8% chance of getting an interview.
In 2008, 3,264 (676 in-state, 2588 out-of-state) students applied and 270 (176 in-state, 94 out-of-state) students were accepted. The University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health’s acceptance rate is about 8.3%. The acceptance rate for in-state students is about 26% and about 3.6% for out-of-state students.
Contact Information
Kurt Hansen, Assistant Dean for Admissions
Phone: (608) 262-4557
Email: kwahansen@wisc.edu
Jane Yahr Shepard, Director of Admissions
Phone: (608) 263-7561
Email: jyshepard@wisc.edu
Becky Duffy, Admissions Advisor
Phone: (608) 263-8228
Email: rlduffy@wisc.edu
Other
Phone: (608) 263-4925
Email: medadmissions@med.wisc.edu