UAMS

Average MCAT: 510
Average GPA: 3.86
Class size: 172 (3,339 applicants)
Tuition: $64,900 (per year, nonresident)
Out-of-state applicants: Limited

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine Little Rock, AR · Public · MD

Deadlines

If you're not from Arkansas, read the residency rules before you pay for anything. You need a 505 MCAT (five points above the resident floor) plus a strong tie to the state or residence in a border state. Tell the office about your ties by Nov. 15, 2026. Don't assume they'll find them in your AMCAS file.
The PMAC letter is the easiest way to sink this application. UAMS won't review your file if you miss your own school's committee deadline, and those deadlines often fall in spring. Check yours now.
Your interviewers won't have read your file. That's the point of a blind interview. Every story you want them to hear has to come out of your mouth, so prepare three or four concrete examples of empathy, teamwork and resilience and practice telling them in two minutes.
If you already know you want primary care, look hard at the three-year track and the Rural Practice program. One cuts a year of tuition. The other trades rural service for funding. Both fit the school's stated mission of keeping physicians in Arkansas.