TUCOM (Touro California)

Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine Vallejo, CA · Private · DO

Average MCAT: 507
Average GPA: 3.58
Class size: 189
Tuition: $72,120 (per year)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AACOMAS deadline: March 15, 2027
Secondary deadline: April 15, 2027

Essays

Essay 1 (Up to 3,000 characters (about 600 words))

Please select one of the tenets of Osteopathic Medicine and explain how it might relate to one or more of your lived experiences

Short answer (Up to 3,000 characters (about 600 words))

Have you attended any TUCOM information sessions on campus, at another location, or virtually? If yes, please list the event(s) in which you participated.

Essay 2 (Up to 3,000 characters (about 600 words))

Please describe your hobbies (or non-academic pursuits) and how they will influence your success as an Osteopathic medical student and/or Osteopathic physician in the future.

Essay 3 (Up to 3,000 characters (about 600 words))

Please discuss how your life experiences and personal characteristics will contribute to your future success as an outstanding osteopathic physician.

Essay 4 (Up to 3,000 characters (about 600 words))

When considering medical schools, what criteria are important to you and how does TUCOM align with those criteria?

Editor's notes

This is a California school in practice. The Class of 2030 is 89% in-state, and UC Davis alone sent 31 students. Out-of-state applicants can get in, but Essay 4 has to give a real reason for Vallejo as well as for osteopathic medicine.
Take the admissions team at their word. In the school's own video, the assistant dean asks for the real reason you want to be a physician, not the story of a sick relative, and for proof you know what a DO does beyond a Wikipedia summary. If you can, do the ShaDO day and name what you saw.
Apply early even though the deadlines are late. Review is rolling, the committee meets about every other week, and the director says plainly that waiting until the deadline is always bad. A complete file in the summer beats a perfect one in March.
The interview is a group panel with a clinician, a scientist and a current student, and they've read everything but your grades. Your essays are the script. Know them well enough that nothing you say contradicts them, and be ready to share the floor with four other candidates.