NYU Long Island

NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine Mineola, NY · Private · MD

Median MCAT: 516
Median GPA: 3.95
Class size: 24 (4,332 applicants)
Tuition: $63,552 (per year)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AMCAS deadline: Nov. 1, 2026
Secondary deadline: Nov. 16, 2026

Essays

Residency track (400 words)

Please select your intended residency track below and discuss your reasons for this choice, how the pre-medical experiences listed on your AMCAS application confirm your commitment to this field within the context of primary care, and why you have chosen this medical discipline over others you have explored. If applicable, please explain how your academic interests or personal journey may have influenced your residency track selection.

Timeline (graduates) (400 words)

If you have graduated from college, please tell us what you have been doing since that time up until the present and your reasons for doing so? (Please be sure to account for all your time since graduating, including your plans for the upcoming application cycle.) Please also discuss how these experiences have informed you of your understanding of primary care and chosen residency track.

Timeline (current students) (400 words)

If you are still in college, what factors influenced your decision to apply to NYUGLISOM directly from undergrad? Please also tell us your planned academic, extracurricular, research, community service and/or work activities for the upcoming application cycle and how any of these activities align with your interest in primary care and chosen residency track?

Regional ties (400 words)

Do you have any personal, professional, or educational ties to the Long Island, NYC-Metropolitan or Tri-State (NY, NJ, CT) Areas? If so, please describe how these connections have influenced your decision to apply to NYUGLISOM and how they may impact your plans to practice medicine.

Reapplicant (400 words)

If you are a re-applicant to any medical school, please describe what steps you have taken to strengthen your candidacy. Additionally, if you did not previously apply to NYUGLISOM, why have you chosen to apply to our program now?

Academic record (400 words)

Please comment on any significant fluctuations in your academic record or inconsistencies in your MCAT score; if you took a leave of absence for any reason during college; or any application irregularities that you feel would be helpful for the admissions committee to consider when conducting its comprehensive review of your credentials.

Additional information (400 words)

Please feel free to share any other information that you have not already included in your AMCAS application or secondary responses that you believe would be relevant for the admissions committee to know about.

Editor's notes

Only apply if you'd be happy as a generalist in internal medicine, pediatrics or OB/GYN. The FAQ tells applicants who want to subspecialize, or aren't sure, to look elsewhere, and says the three-year calendar doesn't leave time to build a subspecialty residency application. Take that at face value.
Your residency-track essay has to rest on experience you already have. The school says it wants meaningful clinical exposure to primary care and to your chosen track. If your AMCAS activities don't show that yet, fix the file before you apply.
The class is capped at 24 and the school says it recruits mostly from the New York metro area; 71% of the 2025 class came from the tristate area. If you have genuine Long Island or New York ties, answer the optional regional-ties question.
Tuition is covered for everyone, and the 2026-27 bill after scholarships is about $32,000 a year. The FAQ adds one cost people miss: you'll need a car to reach most required outpatient clinical sites. Plan for it before you commit.