Georgetown

Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC · Private · MD

Average MCAT: 514
Average GPA: 3.74
Class size: 203 (14,953 applicants)
Tuition: $68,778 (per year)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AMCAS deadline: Nov. 1, 2026
Secondary deadline: Dec. 15, 2026

Essays

Why Georgetown (3,000 characters)

Why have you chosen to apply to the Georgetown University School of Medicine and how do you think your education at Georgetown will prepare you to become a physician for the future?

Cura personalis and perspectives (1,000 characters)

The Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) strives to ensure that its students become respectful physicians, with cultural humility, who embrace all dimensions of caring for the whole person. With our Jesuit values of Cura Personalis, being Men and Women for Others, and Unity in Community, we are steadfast in our commitment to provide care for all. Please describe how your perspectives, values, and individual life experiences will contribute to these GUSOM priorities.

Additional information (1,000 characters)

Is there any further information that you would like the Committee on Admissions to be aware of when reviewing your file that you were not able to notate in another section of this or the AMCAS Application?

Editor's notes

Georgetown reads your file once. No re-review after a new MCAT, no updates unless you're invited to interview. That makes the Dec. 15 deadline misleading: the version of your file that exists when it's marked complete is the one the committee judges. Submit when it's finished, not when it's merely early.
The Guide spells out what a highly competitive file looks like: a 3.6 science GPA, 200 clinical hours, 100 research hours and 100 hours of face-to-face service to the underserved. If your service hours are thin or virtual, fix that before you apply. Nothing in the essays substitutes for them.
Georgetown pre-screens only international applicants, so if you're not one, designating the school on AMCAS gets you the secondary and its $140 fee. The school interviewed 1,112 of 14,953 applicants in its posted profile. Treat the secondary as the real application, and spend your effort on the 3,000-character why-Georgetown essay.
If you're in a one-year master's program, the delayed-review petition is due Sept. 15. Missing it means the committee reads you before your graduate grades exist.