Stony Brook

Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY · Public · MD

Average MCAT: 514
Median GPA: 3.89
Class size: 141 (5,689 applicants)
Tuition: $69,120 (per year, nonresident)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AMCAS deadline: Nov. 16, 2026
Early Decision Program: Aug. 3, 2026
Secondary deadline: Dec. 11, 2026

Essays

Gap period (500 words)

Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.

Past experiences and challenges (500 words)

Tell us how your past experiences and/or challenges have defined you.

Choice A: career goals (500 words)

Please tell us about your career goals, and how you plan to achieve them.

Choice B: ethical or professional dilemma (500 words)

Can you describe a time you faced an ethical/professional dilemma and how you managed it

MSTP only (500 words)

Please describe the basic and/or clinical research fields that you think you might like to explore and/or develop expertise in during your MSTP training. To the extent that you have defined potential specific future clinical interests, please describe the type(s) of medicine that you might be interested in pursuing once you have completed the MSTP.

Editor's notes

Stony Brook is rolling from mid-October, and the supplemental isn't due until Dec. 11. Don't read that late deadline as permission to wait. Acceptances start two months earlier, and a file isn't reviewed until the Casper result and letters are in too.
Book Casper when you submit AMCAS. It's required, results count for one cycle only, and the school says no extra test dates will be added. A missing Casper stalls an otherwise complete file.
If you take the MCAT more than once, Stony Brook averages your scores rather than taking the best. Think about that before a marginal retake.
This is a New York school in practice: 86% of the 2025 class were state residents. Out-of-state applicants do get in (the FAQ puts it at about a quarter over four years), but give the committee a clear reason you want to train on Long Island.