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St. George's University School of Medicine St. George's, Grenada · Private · Caribbean MD

Tuition: $68,976 (per year)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

Intakes: Rolling; starts January 18, 2027, April 7, 2027 (SOM only), August 16, 2027

Essays

Personal statement (500 words)

Explain why you want to go to Medical school. Please limit your response to 500 words.

Optional statement on academic lapses (100 words)

Please use this space to explain any lapses in achievement in your academic record and your intended strategies for avoiding such setbacks in medical school. Please limit your response to 100 words.

Scholarship and grants information (No limit stated)

Please share any additional information about your background or current situation that may be of interest to our Scholarship and Grants Committee. If you have participated in any humanitarian work, please be sure to include that here.

Editor's notes

Rolling admission with three starts (January 18, April 7 and August 16, 2027) means the calendar is yours to manage. Pick the term, then work backward: interview decisions come within days of a complete file, but scholarship programs like Equity in Medicine close Dec. 1 for January. A complete file early beats a polished one late.
Do the money math before you commit. SGU's 2026-27 budget puts Year One at $126,344, and new federal borrowers are now capped at $50,000 a year. That leaves about $76,000 in the first year alone to cover from scholarships, private loans or savings. Since scholarships are only decided at acceptance, put everything that could earn one into the application itself.
SGU's selection list includes the ability to learn from mistakes, and its interview advice tells you to be ready to discuss academic challenges. So don't hide a rough record. Use the 100-word optional statement to explain it and name what changed, then be ready to say the same thing out loud.
Read the outcome numbers with their definitions. The 94% placement rate counts only graduates who applied to U.S. residency, and the 82% graduation rate is for students who began in 2018-19. Both are SGU's own figures.

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