Michigan (UMich)

University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI · Public · MD

Average GPA: 3.85
Class size: 168 (10,265 applicants)
Tuition: $81,960 (per year, nonresident)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AMCAS deadline: Sept. 15, 2026
Secondary deadline: Oct. 15, 2026

Essays

Essay 1 (1,500 characters (about 250 words))

How do you hope to impact medicine and improve patient care in the future? Why do you need a medical degree to fulfill these goals?

Essay 2 (1,500 characters (about 250 words))

Please describe the impact of your identity and experiences on your growth and development, and how it may impact your career as a physician.

Essay 3 (1,500 characters (about 250 words))

The University of Michigan Medical School strives to be a place of empowerment, advocacy and change in health care. What experiences have you had in empowerment and advocacy for others that would help to advance this mission?

Essay 4 (1,500 characters (about 250 words))

Outside of medicine, and beyond what we can read in your application, tell us what you are curious about or what you have chosen to explore.

Experiences (years) (Whole numbers only)

If applicable, indicate substantive experiences after graduating high school in which you invested a significant personal commitment of 10 hours or more per week. Indicate the total number (#) of years you engaged in the experience. Please leave the field blank if less than one year. Your response should ONLY USE WHOLE NUMBERS (no words/text).

MSTP only (1,500 characters (about 250 words))

Describe why you are applying to the University of Michigan MSTP. If you are interested in a specific department, program, area of research or faculty mentor for your PhD, please provide a brief explanation. We recognize that your interests may change. If relevant, please describe your gap/growth year plans.

Editor's notes

Michigan's deadlines are early: AMCAS by Sept. 15 and the secondary by Oct. 15, a month ahead of most schools. Interview invitations start going out in August on a rolling basis. If Michigan is on your list, plan to submit in June and turn the secondary around in two weeks.
The secondary screen is the MCAT, 35th percentile and up. Once you're past it, the four essays carry a lot of weight in only 6,000 characters. Each one asks something different (goals, identity, advocacy, curiosity), so don't let the same story show up twice.
This is a public school that wants about half its class from out of state, and 67.3% of the 2025 class were non-residents. Out-of-state applicants aren't at the disadvantage they'd face at most state schools. The price is real, though: $124,331 for a non-resident's first-year budget before health insurance.
Sixty-two and a half percent of the 2025 class were two or more years out of college. A gap year doesn't need defending here, but it does need to show up in your file as real work.