Cooper (CMSRU)

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Camden, NJ · Public · MD

Average MCAT: 512
Average GPA: 3.79
Class size: 120
Tuition: $78,086 (per year, nonresident)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AMCAS deadline: Nov. 15, 2026
Early Decision Program: Aug. 1, 2026
Secondary deadline: Dec. 15, 2026

Essays

Gap activities (1,500 characters)

Please describe your anticipated educational, employment, volunteer, or other activities between completing your AMCAS application and matriculating to medical school.

Mission (1,500 characters)

We are a mission-aligned education program, please describe how CMSRU will help you fulfill your mission?

Work-life balance (1,500 characters)

Medical school involves hard work and can be stressful at times. Tell us about activities that you use to help maintain a work-life balance and respond to stress.

Optional: unique pathway (1,500 characters)

Optional: Please share with us something unique about your pathway to medical school, including any obstacles you may have faced.

Editor's notes

CMSRU screens before it sends secondaries, so an invitation means you passed a first read. After that, the order matters: completed secondaries are generally reviewed in the order they arrive, and decisions follow within about a week of each interview. Turn the secondary around fast.
The required coursework is short: biology, chemistry and English. Don't read that as a low bar. It means the committee looks harder at the rest of the file, and its mission-based review page names service in communities with limited access to care as a core factor.
About two-thirds of each class comes from New Jersey, and 89 of the 120 students who entered in 2026 were residents. Out-of-state applicants are encouraged, but a Camden or South Jersey connection is worth naming in the mission essay if you have one.
If you already know you want primary care, look at PC3 before you interview. You apply after acceptance, and the track director speaks on the interview day program. Three years of tuition instead of four is real money.