University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville

Please inform pre-med students at your institution about fall 2012 enrollment opportunities at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville. Since our preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education on 10/4/11 gave us a late start in the application / admission cycle, our AMCAS application deadline for this year is extended to February 1, 2012. Although we are a School of the University of South Carolina we are separately accredited and have a different curriculum and admission process from that of University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia.  Please share our web site http://greenvillemed.sc.edu with students and interested faculty alike. The Applicant section of the website explains that applicants may now update their AMCAS application to select the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville for routing of their application. 

We purposely do not have statistical cut-offs but rather consider, in a holistic manner, personal characteristics/experiences which bring added value to the learning environment, letters of recommendation, extracurricular activities, and clinical/research experience as well as GPA and MCAT metrics. In addition we place considerable importance on the interview.  We plan to admit a class made up of about 25% out-of-state and 75% in-state (SC) residents.