How to Get Into Georgetown University School of Medicine: The Definitive Guide (2026-2027)

Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) is a private, Catholic and Jesuit medical school in Washington, D.C. It opened in May 1851, making it the first Catholic medical school in the United States, and it has trained physicians at its Reservoir Road campus since 1930. The school offers one MD program on one campus, plus an MD/PhD program and several dual degrees. Clinical training runs through MedStar Health, Georgetown’s academic health system partner, with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and MedStar Washington Hospital Center at the center of the clerkship year.

This guide covers the 2026-2027 application cycle, for students who will start medical school in 2027 (the Class of 2031). Georgetown uses AMCAS. The AMCAS deadline is November 1, 2026, and the secondary application, $140 fee and letters are due December 15, 2026. All facts below were checked on October 29, 2026.

Everything at Georgetown starts with cura personalis, care of the whole person. The phrase appears in the mission statement, in the name of the clinical skills course, in the community service requirement and in the first secondary question. Georgetown is also one of the most applied-to medical schools in the country, with 14,953 applications behind its most recent posted class profile. Read on for the school’s mission, accreditation, programs, curriculum, 2026-27 costs, class profile, the one-on-one virtual interview and every 2026-2027 secondary prompt, each with an original example and analysis.

Who This Guide Is For

This guide is for applicants who want to know whether Georgetown fits their goals and how to show that fit. It is written for U.S. citizens, permanent residents and other applicants who qualify for federal financial aid, plus DACA recipients. Those are the only groups Georgetown currently considers.

Each school has different guidelines and expectations. Knowing what a school values, and what it requires on paper, helps you decide whether it belongs on your list and how to present yourself once it does. At Georgetown, the most important questions are your record of hands-on clinical work, research and direct service to underserved people, and whether your essays show the values behind that work.

Key Takeaways

• Eligibility is narrower than many applicants expect. Georgetown considers U.S. citizens, non-citizens who are eligible for federal financial aid (such as permanent residents) and DACA recipients. International applicants who cannot receive federal aid are no longer considered. There is no in-state or out-of-state distinction.
• Strong but holistic numbers. The school’s most recent posted class profile shows a mean MCAT of 514 and a mean overall GPA of 3.74 for an incoming class of 203. The school names a science (BCPM) GPA of 3.6 or higher as highly competitive.
• Clear experience benchmarks. A highly competitive applicant shows at least 200 hours of hands-on clinical experience, 100 hours of research and 100 hours of direct, face-to-face service to underserved people.
• Mission first. The Jesuit values of cura personalis, being men and women for others, and unity in community shape the curriculum, the 20-hour community service requirement and the secondary essays.
• Key dates. AMCAS by November 1, 2026; transcripts at AMCAS by November 15, 2026; secondary, $140 fee and letters by December 15, 2026. MD/PhD deadlines are earlier: October 1, October 15 and November 15, 2026.
• A national class. Only 7 of the 203 students who entered in 2025 were D.C. residents, and total MD enrollment was 918 in October 2025. Classes for the entering class begin August 2, 2027.
• High cost. Tuition for 2026-27 is $68,778 for every student. The estimated first-year cost of attendance is $117,954.
• Distinctive training. The Journeys Curriculum, two longitudinal integrated clerkships (Baltimore and the DC Health Equity LIC), 13 optional Longitudinal Academic Tracks, a required Independent Scholarly Project and the student-run HOYA Clinic.
• Next step. Return the three-essay secondary early, because admissions are rolling and every file is read only once. Then prepare for one virtual, one-on-one interview of about 45 minutes.

Key Statistics About Georgetown University School of Medicine

The snapshot and table below gather Georgetown’s key numbers. The class profile on the school’s MD admissions page does not state which entering class it describes, so those figures are labeled “most recent posted class profile, year not stated.” Costs are for the 2026-27 academic year. Georgetown publishes no acceptance rate, so none is shown.

What Are Georgetown’s Average MCAT and GPA?

Georgetown’s most recent posted class profile shows a mean MCAT score of 514 and a mean overall GPA of 3.74 for an incoming class of 203 students. These are averages for students who enrolled, not minimums. Georgetown sets no MCAT minimum and says applications are evaluated holistically, without assigning weight to any one section. For GPA, the school is more specific: a highly competitive applicant has a BCPM (science) GPA of 3.6 or higher.

Two cautions help when you read these numbers. First, the school’s page does not say which entering class the profile describes, so treat it as a recent snapshot rather than a dated record. Second, a mean can hide a wide range. A 514 average means many admitted students scored below it, often with deep clinical, research or service records that the committee weighed alongside the score.

How Hard Is It to Get Into Georgetown?

Georgetown does not publish an acceptance rate. What it does publish shows how competitive the school is: 14,953 total applications, 1,112 applicants interviewed and an incoming class of 203 in its most recent posted class profile. About 7.4% of applicants received an interview. Fewer than that received an offer, but the school does not publish the number of offers, so no true acceptance rate can be calculated from its data.

The practical point is that Georgetown reads a very large pool and interviews a small share of it. A file that reaches the interview stage usually combines solid academics with long-term clinical work, real research and sustained service to people in need.

Mission and Educational Priorities

Georgetown’s mission statement reads: “Guided by the Jesuit tradition of cura personalis, care of the whole person, Georgetown University School of Medicine will educate a diverse student body, in an integrated way, to become knowledgeable, ethical, skillful and compassionate physicians and biomedical scientists who are dedicated to the care of others and health needs of our society.”

The school’s diversity statement, adopted in 2009, adds that GUSOM “strives to ensure that its students become respectful physicians who embrace all dimensions of diversity in a learning environment that understands and includes the varied health care needs and growing diversity of the populations we serve.”

What Cura Personalis Means in Practice

Cura personalis is the school’s organizing idea. Georgetown describes it as care for a person’s psychological, spiritual and social well-being in addition to physical health. For applicants, the phrase has concrete consequences:

• It names a course. The Cura Personalis clinical skills course runs through every block of the first two years and teaches physical diagnosis, communication and ethics.
• It sets a graduation requirement. Every student completes at least 20 hours of community service with a vulnerable, underserved or traditionally disenfranchised group. Students who log 75 or more hours graduate with distinction in community service (AY 2026-27 policy).
• It shapes the secondary. The first secondary essay quotes the school’s Jesuit values and asks how your perspectives, values and life experiences will contribute to them.
• It guides student life. The HOYA Clinic, Georgetown Street Medicine Outreach and many other student groups put the idea into practice in D.C. neighborhoods.

Jesuit Values and Service

Georgetown’s education is guided by Catholic, Jesuit principles of public service (“Hoyas in service to others”) and care of the whole person. The current secondary names three values: cura personalis, being men and women for others, and unity in community. Georgetown’s clubs are open to all students regardless of religion, and current groups range from the Christian Medical and Dental Association to NAAMA NextGen, the South Asian Medical Student Association and the Hoya Medical Pride Alliance. What matters is whether you can show care for the whole person in your own work and words.

The admissions FAQ describes the school’s character this way: a community of scholars and healers “dedicated to healing the individual patient; committed to serving the health care needs of the community; and to advocating for those who have no voice in our society.” It sums up Georgetown’s defining differences as “challenge, choice, and community.”

What the Mission Means for Applicants

The mission turns into specific advice:

1. Show sustained service, not a sampler. The school asks for 100 or more hours of direct service with face-to-face contact with marginalized people. Virtual or phone-based service does not count toward that benchmark.
2. Show hands-on clinical work. Georgetown separates good volunteering (reading to children, stocking shelves, transporting patients) from hands-on clinical experience. Plan for 200 or more hours of the second kind.
3. Reflect on whole-person care. Write about a patient’s family, housing, faith, language or fear, not just their diagnosis.
4. Know the school’s programs. The “Why Georgetown” essay rewards applicants who connect their goals to real Georgetown programs, such as a Longitudinal Academic Track, the DC Health Equity LIC or the HOYA Clinic.

Georgetown’s medical education program states the aim plainly: to graduate physicians with “a generalist professional education” that integrates “the scientific, clinical, professional, and ‘high touch’ competencies needed to deliver patient-centered care.”

Accreditation and Institutional Identity

Georgetown University School of Medicine is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the national accreditor for MD programs in the United States and Canada. The school has been LCME-accredited since 1949. Its last full survey, in February 2019, resulted in continued full accreditation. The LCME usually surveys schools on an eight-year cycle, and Georgetown is preparing for its next reaccreditation survey in 2027. Accreditation confirms that the program meets national standards; it is not a ranking or a guarantee of outcomes.

A few distinctions help when you research the school:

• School and medical center. The School of Medicine is part of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), which also includes the School of Nursing, the School of Health, Biomedical Graduate Education and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. GUMC is a $270 million research and educational enterprise.
• School and hospital system. Georgetown does not own its main teaching hospitals. MedStar Health, the largest integrated health system in the mid-Atlantic, is the school’s academic health system partner. In 2017, Georgetown and MedStar finalized long-term agreements spanning a 50-year term.
• One campus. All MD students start on the same campus. Clinical rotations take place across MedStar and other affiliate sites in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
• Name. The school uses the names Georgetown University School of Medicine and GUSOM. Older materials sometimes say “Georgetown University Medical School.” They refer to the same MD program.

Nondiscrimination Policy

Georgetown University provides educational opportunities without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, age, color, disability, family responsibilities, familial status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, national origin, personal appearance, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, source of income, veteran’s status or any other factor prohibited by law. Questions about the policy go to the Office for Equal Opportunity Compliance, 37th and O Sts., N.W., Suite M36, Darnall Hall, Washington, D.C. 20057.

Medical Programs and Affiliations

Georgetown offers one four-year MD program, an MD/PhD program and a set of dual degrees, plus early assurance for Georgetown undergraduates. Each pathway has its own rules, so check which applications you need before you apply.

Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program

The MD program is the heart of the school. It is a four-year program built on the Journeys Curriculum, described in the next section, with early clinical exposure in the first year through Ambulatory Care and Community-Based Learning. Clinical training spans primary care, surgery and every core specialty, with rotations in urban and underserved settings that reflect the school’s commitment to social justice and health equity.

MD/PhD Program

The MD/PhD Program, directed by Todd Waldman, MD, PhD, trains medical scientists for careers in biomedical, bioethical and clinical research. Program strengths include cancer research with the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, neuroscience, pharmacology and bioethics. The program page, updated in April 2025, states that students accepted in the 2025-2026 cycle receive a full tuition scholarship and stipend for their entire training. A funding statement for the 2026-2027 cycle has not been posted, so confirm the current package with the program. MD/PhD applicants face earlier deadlines: AMCAS by October 1, 2026, transcripts by October 15, 2026, and the secondary, fee and letters by November 15, 2026. Georgetown has not published separate MD/PhD essay prompts for 2026-2027.

Dual Degree Programs

Georgetown offers several dual degrees. Each one requires a separate application to the second program:

• MD/MBA. Students apply to both the McDonough School of Business and the School of Medicine. Years one to three are medical school; year four switches to McDonough; the fifth year includes the MBA’s Global Business Experience. Georgetown recommends applying before entering medical school or during the first year.
• MD/MPH. A five-year program with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Students complete the MPH between the third and fourth years of medical school and may submit the MPH application after finishing the second year.
• MD/MS. Students can pair the MD with any Biomedical Graduate Education master’s program, completed either before the MD or between the second and third years.
• MD/MALS in Ethics and Professionalism. A five-year program with the School of Continuing Studies; the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies is completed before the MD or between the second and third years.
• MD/MA or MD/PhD in Philosophy. Offered with the Department of Philosophy; coursework begins after the second year of medical school.

These pathways let students build skills in management, public health, research or ethics alongside clinical training, which can prepare them to lead change in health systems.

Early Assurance Program for Georgetown Undergraduates

The Early Assurance Program (EAP) lets current Georgetown undergraduates apply for assured admission at the end of sophomore year. Students apply through their own school or college, in their fourth semester, after completing four premedical courses by the end of May. Accepted students do not need the MCAT for Georgetown, but must keep a GPA of at least 3.6 (BCPM and overall), earn above a C in every course and not withdraw from a major course. Transfer students are not eligible. Accepted students become Joseph Sweeney, S.J. Scholars, named for a longtime School of Medicine chaplain.

Pipeline and Pathway Programs

Georgetown runs several programs that prepare students for medicine before medical school:

• GEMS and the Special Master’s Program (SMP). Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies (GEMS) and the Special Master’s Program in Physiology prepare students for medical school. Graduates of either program who matriculate at GUSOM receive a reduced first-year tuition and fee rate. SMP students follow their own program’s policies rather than the delayed-review policy for one-year master’s students.
• ARCHES. The Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship prepares undergraduates for medical school through clinical research and community engagement.
• High school programs. The Gateway Exploration Program (GEP) and the GUSOM Summer Immersion Program introduce high school students to medicine.

Clinical Affiliations

Georgetown’s clinical education runs through a long partnership with MedStar Health. Third-year students rotate at these affiliate institutions:

• MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center
• MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (Baltimore)
• Holy Cross Hospital
• Inova Fairfax and Inova Loudoun
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center, D.C.
• Virginia Hospital Center
• Walter Reed (listed by the school as Walter Reed Army Medical Center)

Is There a Georgetown PA Program?

Georgetown University does not offer a physician assistant (PA) program. Students who want a PA career in the city can compare PA schools in Washington DC. One option close to Georgetown’s medical campus is the George Washington University PA Program, housed in GW’s Department of PA Studies within the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Key facts about the GW PA Program:

• Accreditation. The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the GW PA Program. The approximate date of its next ARC-PA validation review is September 2033.
• PANCE. Graduates must pass the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE), administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), to practice as certified PAs. GW posts its PANCE performance summary on the same accreditation page.
• Program goals. GW lists four goals: educate future PAs who possess superior knowledge and skills; recruit and matriculate a diverse class of highly qualified students; prepare students to address social determinants of health and the needs of the community; and demonstrate professional involvement, leadership and service.
• Recruitment. GW aims to keep half of each PA class made up of first-generation college students, people from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and similar groups.
• Mission. GW’s PA program aims to prepare PAs who “demonstrate clinical excellence; embrace diversity, equity and inclusion; advocate for their patients; lead and advance the profession; and serve their communities.”
• Location. The program describes its D.C. setting as giving students close access to Congress, the White House and national medical organizations, and therefore to health policy in action.

If you are weighing PA against MD, shadowing and clinical work in both roles will help you decide.

Curriculum Overview

Georgetown’s MD program follows the Journeys Curriculum. The school describes it as centered in cura personalis and designed for “the intellectual and ethical formation of physician-healers committed to the clinically competent care and well-being of their patients and dedicated to the health needs of the underserved in our society.” The curriculum has three phases: the Foundational Phase, the Core Clinical Phase and the Advanced Clinical Phase.

Medical Education Competencies

Georgetown expects its graduates to reach competencies in three domains: knowledge, skills, and values and attitudes. In practice, that means a working command of biomedical science, the ability to judge new evidence critically, and a steady commitment to ethical, patient-centered care. Every part of the curriculum below feeds one of those domains.

Foundational Phase (Years 1 and 2)

The Foundational Phase is divided into six blocks of core content. Each block ends with a two-week study and exam period. The blocks follow a logical progression of organ-system modules that integrate the basic sciences with doctoring skills.

• Year 1 modules: Scientific Foundations I and II, Cardiovascular, Endocrinology, Foundations of Patient Care, Infectious Diseases, Renal, Gastrointestinal, Immunology/Rheumatology/Dermatology, Respiratory, and Reproduction.
• Year 2 modules: Musculoskeletal, Central Nervous System, Head/Neck and Special Senses, and Hematological Disorders and Medical Genetics.

Several longitudinal courses run outside the modules:

• Cura Personalis (Clinical Skills), Years 1 and 2: physical diagnosis, communication and ethics, running through every block.
• Ambulatory Care and Community-Based Learning, Year 1: early patient contact in outpatient and community settings.
• Ethics, Years 1 and 2.
• Patients, Population and Policy, Year 1.
• Medical Student Grand Rounds: a longitudinal course through the first three years, held during intersessions.

Bridges are short courses that connect the sciences to the wider practice of medicine: Health Disparities and Health Equity, Health Policy and Advocacy, Principles of Research in Medicine, and Nutrition and Patient Health. Intersessions are week-long courses on topics critical to the modern physician.

The curriculum is designed to build critical thinking, cognitive integration and lifelong learning. The school’s Integrated Learning Center and standardized patient program give students supervised practice with simulated patients before they treat real ones.

Mind-Body Medicine

Georgetown integrated a Mind-Body Medicine course into its curriculum with a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The program takes medical and graduate students through practices such as meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, art, music and movement. The goal is for students to experience self-awareness and self-care themselves, so they can understand those capacities in their patients. It is one of the clearest examples of how cura personalis applies to students as well as patients.

Core Clinical Phase (Year 3)

The Core Clinical Phase is a 48-week clerkship year that begins with a one-week bootcamp. Students complete these required clerkships:

The two-week selective can be anesthesia, child psychiatry, dermatology, emergency medicine, geriatrics, interventional radiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology, radiation oncology, surgical pathology or two more weeks of neurology. At the end of the third year, every student takes an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) before moving on.

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships

Instead of the block schedule, some third-year students choose one of two Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs):

• The Baltimore LIC combines family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics over 22 weeks at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore. Up to 12 students take part each year, and furnished housing is provided near the medical center.
• The DC Health Equity LIC combines family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and psychiatry over 20 weeks at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and hospital affiliates in the Washington area. Up to 10 students take part each year.

LIC students meet the same objectives as block students but follow a panel of patients for about six months, across settings. A student might see a patient for a pre-operative visit, scrub in on that patient’s surgery and then attend the follow-up visit. Each student has a one-on-one mentor in each discipline. Students apply in their second year, outside the lottery, and complete their remaining clerkships in the Washington area.

The Clerkship Lottery

To assign clerkships fairly, Georgetown uses a lottery. Students first choose a lottery “stream” number, which links to a particular order of clerkships across the year. Once the stream is set, students complete quarterly preference surveys for site locations (for example MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center or Virginia Hospital Center) or specific rotations such as neurosurgery, plastic surgery or physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Advanced Clinical Phase (Year 4)

The final year begins with the Journeys II phase and moves into acting internships, emergency medicine and electives. Georgetown offers a broad range of electives at its own sites and at other institutions, so students can explore interests and prepare for their chosen specialty and the residency application.

Longitudinal Academic Tracks

Georgetown’s Longitudinal Academic Tracks are optional, faculty-run scholarly programs that run alongside all four years. Students apply in late fall of the first year, may apply to up to three tracks and join one. Those who complete a track while in good academic standing graduate with distinction. Current tracks include:

• Bioethics: ethical reasoning through coursework, experiential learning and hospital ethics committees.
• Clinical Medical Spanish: the skills to conduct patient interviews entirely in Spanish, including consent and treatment plans.
• Clinical Research Scholars: a four-year mentored clinical or translational research project.
• Community Health Leadership: research and clinical learning in underserved communities.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Medicine: anti-racism, cultural humility and social justice skills.
• Environmental Health and Medicine: the health effects of climate change and environmental toxins.
• Health Justice Scholars: using law and policy, with legal and policy advocates, to advance health justice.
• Healthcare Leadership: health systems, policy and innovation.
• Literature and Medicine: narrative, communication and visiting authors.
• Medical Education: education research for future academic physicians.
• Population Health Scholar: the broad determinants of health and outcomes-based projects.
• Primary Care Leadership.
• Spirituality in Medicine: integrating patients’ spiritual identities into holistic care.

The Clinical Medical Spanish track pairs naturally with experience caring for Spanish-speaking patients. Some applicants build that experience before medical school through Spanish-language clinical work, such as a medical internship in Peru, or by volunteering at a bilingual clinic at home.

Required Scholarship and Service

Two graduation requirements apply to every student:

• Independent Scholarly Project (ISP). Each student completes a scholarly project that answers, or seeks to answer, a research question under a faculty mentor. An ISP orientation is part of the first-year curriculum, and the Principles of Research in Medicine bridge course supports the work. Projects are presented at the annual George M. Kober Student Research Day.
• Community service. At least 20 hours with a vulnerable, underserved or disenfranchised community, at a pre-approved site. The full requirement is described in the student life section below.

Grading is pass/fail in the preclinical curriculum and currently pass/fail in the core clerkships. The Advanced Clinical Phase uses Honors, High Pass, Pass and Fail. The school runs on semesters, attendance is required only at select mandatory sessions, lectures are available online and first- and second-year students can use peer-to-peer tutoring at no cost. Patient interaction starts in the first week of medical school, and students dress professionally for every patient encounter.

How Tracks Differ

The MD curriculum is the same for every student through the core phases. Differences come from choices: the LIC instead of block clerkships, a Longitudinal Academic Track, a dual degree that adds a year, or the MD/PhD’s research years. Each choice is optional except for MD/PhD students, whose path is set when they apply.

Admissions Requirements and Application Process

Georgetown’s Guide to Application sets out every requirement and policy for the 2026-2027 cycle. The Committee on Admissions selects students “on the basis of academic achievements, character, maturity, and motivation,” reviewing the entire academic record, the MCAT, premedical committee evaluations, letters of recommendation and a personal interview.

Criteria for Application Review

When deciding whom to interview, the committee weighs five areas holistically, without assigning weight to any one:

1. Essays: your AMCAS personal statement and the Georgetown secondary essays.
2. Experiences: clinical experience, leadership, service and research.
3. MCAT.
4. GPA, with emphasis on the undergraduate BCPM (science) GPA.
5. Letters of recommendation.

The committee reads the entire application before deciding and reviews each file only once. The committee also takes criminal convictions and institutional actions seriously, especially those involving alcohol, drugs or plagiarism.

Experience Benchmarks

Georgetown is unusually specific about what a highly competitive applicant shows:

Physician shadowing is listed as required, as part of that substantive, longitudinal clinical experience. The school also notes that volunteering in clinics or waiting rooms, such as reading to children, stocking shelves or transporting patients, is good volunteer experience but not hands-on clinical experience. Plan your hours with that line in mind. Applicants who need more patient contact often look for clinical internships for pre-med students where they take part in patient care under supervision, then add steady local experience so that most of their hours are in the United States.

Academic Degree and Credit Rules

• You must hold a bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) from an accredited institution before you matriculate. You do not need it when you apply.
• You must have completed 90 credit hours at the time of application. Pass/fail courses count toward the 90 hours.
• Only the last 3 to 5 hours of prerequisites may be taken in the year before matriculation, and they must be finished by July 1 of the matriculation year.

Prerequisite Courses

Course policies to know:

• No substitutions are permitted for prerequisite coursework.
• AP and IB credit fulfills prerequisites if the individual courses and credits appear on your college transcript.
• Community college prerequisites are accepted. Georgetown encourages applicants with community college prerequisites to add advanced courses in related subjects at a four-year institution.
• Older coursework. If your prerequisites were completed five or more years before your planned matriculation year, you need recent coursework: a post-baccalaureate program, a graduate program with graduate-level biological science courses, or at least a year of substantive upper-division or graduate science courses.
• Spring 2020 to Spring 2021. Georgetown accepts pass/fail, credit/no credit and online courses from that period.
• Graduate GPA. Post-baccalaureate grades are added to your undergraduate science GPA. Graduate program grades are viewed separately.
• Recommended courses include microbiology, computer science, cellular physiology, genetics, embryology, biostatistics, quantitative analysis, physical chemistry, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences.

MCAT Policy

• A valid MCAT is required for every applicant, with no exceptions.
• For the 2027 entering class, Georgetown accepts MCAT administrations from 2024, 2025 or 2026, with September 2026 the latest test month considered.
• If you have taken the MCAT more than once, Georgetown considers your most recent score.
• You may apply before you test. If you list a future test date on AMCAS, review waits until those scores arrive. Georgetown encourages you to submit the secondary and letters before your new scores come in.
• Because each file is reviewed only once, new scores do not trigger a second review after a decision. If you decide not to take a listed future test, email the admissions office with your name and AMCAS ID so the future date can be removed.

Letters of Recommendation

• Submit a committee letter or packet if your college offers one. It is required when available.
• Without a committee letter, submit at least two and no more than five individual letters. A committee packet may contain more than five letters; that is the only exception to the maximum.
• A committee letter is the preferred format; letter packets and individual letters are also accepted.
• Aim for a balance of academic, clinical and service letters.
• Graduate students in the sciences are encouraged to include a letter from current graduate faculty.
• Only applicants who have been away from degree-granting institutions for more than three years may submit entirely non-academic letters.
• All letters go through the AMCAS Letters system. Paper letters are discarded.

Citizenship, Residency and DACA

At the time of AMCAS submission, an applicant must be a U.S. citizen or a non-citizen eligible for federal financial aid. Eligible non-citizens include:

• Lawful permanent residents with a Permanent Resident Card
• Conditional permanent residents (I-551C)
• Refugees, asylees and certain other recipients of Form I-94 from the Department of Homeland Security
• Non-citizen nationals of the United States and citizens of Palau, the Marshall Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia

DACA recipients are also eligible to apply. Georgetown encourages DACA applicants who need financial aid to research funding early, because eligibility for traditional programs may be limited. All applicants must document their status, for example with a U.S. birth certificate, U.S. passport, permanent resident card, certificate of naturalization, or documents showing asylee, refugee or DACA status.

International applicants who are not eligible for federal financial aid are no longer considered. The school explains that it made this decision after assessing its ability to support students, since some international students cannot receive federal aid. Students admitted before Fall 2023 are not affected. Georgetown has no in-state or out-of-state distinction; it is a private school in D.C., and all applicants are in the same pool.

Situational Judgment Tests

Georgetown requires no situational judgment test or other added assessment for 2026-2027, and it does not use PREview scores in admissions. Casper is not part of the application either. If your secondary invitation lists an additional assessment, follow it.

Primary Application: AMCAS

Georgetown receives verified applications through AMCAS. If you are new to the primary application, IMA’s AMCAS application guide walks through each section. Send all transcripts directly to AMCAS. Transcripts sent to Georgetown are discarded unless the office asks for them. Make any email or address changes in AMCAS; they carry over to the secondary within about a day.

Secondary Application

Georgetown does not pre-screen U.S. applicants. Every applicant who is not an international applicant and who selects Georgetown on AMCAS receives the secondary.

• Timing. Invitations go out from July. If your AMCAS application is verified before July, you receive the invitation in the first 5 to 7 business days of July. If it is verified on or after July 1, you receive it within 5 to 7 business days of verification.
• The email. It comes from [email protected] with the subject line “Secondary Application Invitation.” Add that address to your safe senders list and check spam folders. If it does not arrive, contact the office promptly; extensions are not granted past the December 15 deadline to applicants who waited too long to ask.
• Fee. $140, non-refundable. Fee waivers go only to AMCAS FAP-approved applicants, and the waiver must appear on the verified AMCAS application.
• Essays. Three essays for 2026-2027, with limits of 1,000, 1,000 and 3,000 characters. See the secondary section below.
• Complete file. You receive an email when your file is complete. Only complete files go to the committee.

Special Policy for One-Year Graduate Programs

If you are in a one-year degree-granting graduate program during the application year and have completed all prerequisites, you can petition for a delayed review, so the committee waits for your first-semester grades. Email [email protected] by September 15 with your full legal name, AMCAS ID, graduate program and a contact at the program. Students in post-baccalaureate programs are not eligible; students in graduate certificate programs may apply. Students in Georgetown’s Special Master’s Program in Physiology follow their own program’s policies. A delayed review does not hurt your application.

2026-2027 Application Timeline

All deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, and Georgetown makes no exceptions. The December 15 deadline falls during the winter break, when many offices are closed, so submit well before it. For most applicants, the practical plan is to submit AMCAS early in the summer, return the secondary within two weeks of receiving it and confirm letters are at AMCAS well before December. Your pre-med summer internships, research and service should be finished, or clearly scheduled, by the time you write the secondary, so you can describe them concretely.

Decisions, Deposits and the Waitlist

• Rolling admissions. Georgetown reviews files on a rolling basis and asks applicants to submit materials as soon as possible. Acceptance notices for the 2026-2027 cycle go out from October 15, 2026 through July 30, 2027. Georgetown has no Early Decision Program.
• Turnaround. Expect a response generally around twelve weeks after your file is complete; timing varies by stage of the cycle.
• How decisions arrive. By email to your AMCAS address. The office does not share decisions by phone. Every applicant with a complete file is told whether they will be interviewed.
• Interview scheduling. If you are invited, you must schedule within two weeks. Applications are withdrawn for invitees who do not.
• Post-submission updates. Only applicants invited to interview may send updates, and only as text through the secondary portal. Emails and attachments are disregarded. Interviewed applicants may also submit a thank-you note through the portal.
• Deposit. A $500 pre-enrollment deposit is credited to tuition. From October to April 15, admitted students pay by April 30, and the deposit is refundable on written request until April 30. In May, June and July, the deposit is non-refundable and due within 7, 5 or 2 days of acceptance.
• Plan to Enroll and Commit to Enroll. By April 15, narrow to three acceptances. By April 30, hold one offer (you may stay on waitlists). Select “Commit to Enroll” for Georgetown by June 15. Students accepted June 16 to 30 have 7 days to commit; those accepted in July have 3 days.
• Waitlist. Waitlisted applicants may send up to ten letters of interest through the online portal. The waitlist stays open until orientation begins.
• Deferral. The committee considers one- or two-year deferral requests from accepted students. Requests are not considered after May 15, and students accepted after May 15 cannot defer. A granted deferral is binding.
• Reapplicants. Files from earlier cycles are reviewed in their entirety, with a focus on new information.
• Withdrawal. Write to [email protected] with your AMCAS ID and legal name.
• Offer conditions. Georgetown may rescind an offer before matriculation for dishonesty, failure to follow the AAMC Application and Acceptance Protocols, or other conduct that reflects on fitness for medicine. Applicants must meet the school’s technical standards and must keep their application information up to date.
• Before you start. Admitted students complete immunization requirements and a background check before matriculation. Classes for the entering class begin August 2, 2027.

Contact Information

Georgetown’s admissions office works remotely and is closed for in-person visits. Contact it by email: [email protected] for admissions and [email protected] for financial aid. The office also posts updates on X/Twitter (@GUMedAdmissions), Facebook and Instagram (@gumedadmissions). Read the Guide to Application and the MD Admissions FAQ in full before writing; most questions are answered there. The office runs virtual information sessions through the year but does not offer tours.

Tuition, Cost of Attendance and Financial Aid

Georgetown is one of the more expensive medical schools in the country, and its costs do not change by residency. The table below shows the school’s estimated 2026-27 cost of attendance for each year of the program.

Notes on the budget:

• Tuition is the same for everyone: $68,778 in each year for 2026-27. Georgetown has no in-state rate.
• Reduced first-year rate: graduates of GEMS or the Special Master’s Program who enroll at GUSOM pay reduced first-year tuition and fees: $68,873 for SMP graduates and $65,435 for GEMS graduates (2026-27).
• Health insurance is mandated by the District of Columbia, but students with other coverage, such as a parent’s or spouse’s plan, can waive it through a survey in GU Experience, usually available in July.
• Transportation rises in the clinical years because rotations can be far from campus. The school does not reimburse travel for required parts of the curriculum.
• Loan fees include an estimated private loan origination fee; actual fees vary by lender.

Adding the four 2026-27 budgets gives a rough four-year total of about $479,400 before tuition increases. Your actual cost will be higher if tuition rises, and lower if you live below the budget or receive scholarships.

Debt and Aid Use

For academic year 2024-2025, 64% of Georgetown medical students received financial aid, and indebted graduates left with an average of $248,805 in medical school debt. The school’s own advice is direct: borrowing the full budget can create substantial debt, so students are encouraged to live below the budget whenever possible and to research federal loan forgiveness programs for public service and underserved practice early.

Financial Aid Application Process

You do not need an offer of admission to apply for aid. Incoming students who want need-based institutional aid must complete three forms, regardless of admission status:

1. The GUSOM Application for Institutional Financial Aid.
2. The FAFSA, with Georgetown’s federal school code E00518.
3. The CSS Profile, with Georgetown’s school code 3466. Parent information is required on the CSS Profile for all need-based institutional aid applicants, regardless of age, independence or marital status. Do not send tax documents to Georgetown.

Students who want only federal loans complete the FAFSA and the GUSOM Federal Authorization Form.

Important Financial Aid Deadlines

The most recent deadlines posted on Georgetown’s financial aid FAQ, for students entering in 2026, were February 6, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST for all three forms (the GUSOM Financial Aid Form, the 2026-2027 FAFSA and the CSS Profile), with no exceptions. Deadlines for students entering in 2027 have not been posted yet. Expect a date in early February 2027, and file the 2027-2028 FAFSA and CSS Profile as soon as they open. Check the page in January.

Common mistakes that delay aid packages include leaving out the school codes, submitting forms for the wrong academic year, sending an incomplete or unsigned application and missing the deadline.

Preparing for Financial Aid

• Plan for early expenses. Have funds for moving and your first weeks in D.C. before aid disburses.
• Know federal eligibility. Review the Department of Education’s federal aid rules. International students are not eligible for need-based institutional aid, and DACA students should research outside funding early.
• Watch the school’s pages. Aid terms and dates change from year to year.
• Service scholarships. Students funded by programs such as the National Health Service Corps or the military Health Professions Scholarship Program work with Georgetown’s Office of Third Party Billing.

Support and Resources

Georgetown’s Office of Financial Aid offers budgeting guidance, loan repayment information and one-on-one appointments by email at [email protected]. The office can return federal loan funds on a student’s behalf within 120 days of disbursement, and students can accept previously declined federal loans until two weeks before the end of the academic year. Students are billed each semester, and payment plans are available through the Office of Revenue and Receivables. Continuing aid depends on satisfactory academic progress.

Campus Facilities and Student Life

Georgetown’s medical campus sits beside MedStar Georgetown University Hospital at 37th and O Streets NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Students study in the Medical-Dental Building and nearby medical center buildings, use the Dahlgren Memorial Library, and practice clinical skills with standardized patients in the Integrated Learning Center, which has 10 clinical examination rooms. The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center sits next to the hospital, the Yates Field House offers swimming, running tracks and other athletics, and the Leavey Center has dining and guest quarters. There is no on-campus housing for medical students, so most rent in the surrounding neighborhoods. Housing is a major cost in D.C., so build the 2026-27 food and housing budget ($22,250 for the 10-month first year) into your planning, and note that third-year transportation costs rise because rotations are spread across the region. Georgetown strongly recommends a driver’s license and access to a car, because many care sites and hospitals are hard to reach by public transit, and students without one arrange their own transportation.

Life outside class in the nation’s capital offers a lot: museums, embassies, policy events and easy access to federal health agencies such as the National Institutes of Health in nearby Bethesda, Maryland. For students interested in health policy or advocacy, the setting is a real advantage.

Student Support

Georgetown supports students through its Learning Societies, the Office of Student Affairs, the Office of Student Learning and Academic Advising, career and residency advising, and the Mind-Body Medicine program. Student groups such as the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Club, which works on burnout and mental health awareness, and Hoya Med Caregivers, which supports medical students who are also primary caregivers, add peer support. Admissions and financial aid staff work remotely and answer questions by email.

Community Service Requirement

Every Georgetown medical student completes at least 20 hours of community service before graduation. The service must be with a vulnerable, underserved or traditionally disenfranchised group, at a pre-approved site, and cannot be for course credit. At most 10 hours may come from approved sites outside the D.C. metro area. For AY 2026-27, students who complete 75 or more hours are recognized with distinction at graduation. Georgetown roots the requirement in cura personalis and in the university’s charge to educate people “to live generously in service to others.”

HOYA Clinic

The HOYA Clinic is Georgetown’s student-run clinic. It opened on September 17, 2019, at The Triumph, a Community of Hope temporary housing facility in Congress Heights in Southeast Washington. Medical students manage it, Georgetown faculty physicians provide clinical oversight, and care is free. In 2021 the clinic added a second site at the Catholic Charities Volunteer Medical Clinic on Monroe Street, which serves Spanish-speaking patients in Columbia Heights. The clinic also runs wellness workshops and health education classes. It is supported by a DC Department of Health grant, the School of Medicine and MedStar Health. For applicants, the HOYA Clinic is one of the clearest places to see how Georgetown students practice the mission before they graduate.

Student Organizations

Georgetown has a long list of student clubs offering social, spiritual, civic and intellectual events on campus and in D.C. All programs are open to all GUSOM students, and students can propose new clubs. Here is a closer look at many of them.

Acute Neurological Illness Club

This club supports patients diagnosed with an acute neurological illness and their families. Because these diagnoses are stressful for everyone involved, members offer meditative and therapeutic resources, including physical exercise, art therapy, music therapy, journaling, reflective reading, breathing exercises and meditation, to help patients cope and heal.

American Medical Association (AMA)

Georgetown’s AMA chapter adds student voices to the work of the AMA, which represents physicians, residents and medical students in legislation and the courts. The group aims to correct long-standing problems within medicine and build a more equitable future for health care.

American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)

AMWA at Georgetown fosters an environment of women supporting women in medicine through networking, education and service. It gives female students a place for mentorship, collaboration and professional growth.

Anesthesia Interest Group

This group guides students considering anesthesiology. Its events explain what the specialty involves and what a career in it looks like, and connect students with faculty in the field.

Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA)

APAMSA brings together Asian, Pacific Islander and other students interested in the health issues that affect Asian and Pacific Islander communities, so they can build a strong public and political voice. It also gives APIA medical students a forum to share information and experiences and to develop personally and professionally.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)

AIM is a community of students and professionals exploring how artificial intelligence can improve diagnostics, treatment and patient care. Its discussions and workshops promote the ethical use of AI in medicine. Related groups include Machine Learning in Medicine, which hosts speakers on clinical uses of machine learning, and H2AI (Healthcare Hackathon with AI), which runs workshops and a 36-hour hackathon with clinicians, engineers and students from across the D.C. area.

Association of Women Surgeons

The Georgetown chapter of AWS supports the organization’s mission to inspire, encourage and enable women surgeons to reach their professional and personal goals, through mentorship, networking and education.

Be The Match Advocacy Club

This club teaches students about blood cancers and other diseases treated by marrow transplant. It raises awareness of the need for young, committed and racially and ethnically diverse registry members, and it holds education, donor registry and fundraising events on campus.

Big Hoya Little Saxa

Big HOYA Little Saxa is a mentorship program that pairs Georgetown medical students with children experiencing homelessness in D.C. Members offer steady relationships, encouragement and support.

Bioethics Club

The Bioethics Club supplements the ethics in the GUSOM curriculum by inviting outside speakers to discuss ethical challenges they face in clinical practice. Ongoing conversations about the gray areas of clinical decisions help prepare students to practice ethically.

Black Men in White Coats

This chapter works to increase the number of Black men in medicine through exposure, inspiration and mentoring. The national initiative partners with medical schools to produce short documentaries that raise awareness of an issue that affects the nation as a whole.

Cardiology Interest Group

The Cardiology Interest Group gives students room to explore cardiology through events and contact with physicians in the field. It pairs well with the Georgetown Cardiovascular Research Club, described below.

Chess Club

The Chess Club helps students learn and enjoy chess, connect with classmates and patients across the board, and learn lessons about themselves and others through the game.

Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA)

CMDA educates, encourages and equips Christian health care professionals. Members aim to follow Christ, serve with excellence and compassion, care for all people and advance biblical principles of health care.

Climate Health and Medical Sustainability (CHMS)

CHMS educates future physicians to recognize and reduce the health effects of climate change and environmentally unjust systems, and to share that knowledge with the communities and patients they will serve. It connects naturally with the Environmental Health and Medicine track.

Community SKINterventions, Georgetown Chapter

Community SKINterventions provides culturally relevant dermatology education to under-resourced communities in the greater Washington area, helping close gaps in access to skin health information.

Correctional Health Outreach (CHO)

CHO was founded by Georgetown medical students to study and raise awareness of health disparities affecting incarcerated people, and to build professional relationships with incarcerated persons and corrections facilities through outreach and education.

Cura Chefs: Culinary Medicine and Community

Cura Chefs brings nutrition education into medical training, uses cooking as a healthy way to de-stress, and builds relationships among students and with surrounding neighborhoods through culinary medicine.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Student Chapter

MSF is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics and natural disasters. The GUSOM chapter helps students understand these humanitarian issues from experts in the field, learn skills needed for field work and support MSF’s advocacy campaigns. Applicants interested in this kind of work can read IMA’s guide to Doctors Without Borders and its alternatives.

Emergency Medicine Interest Group

EMIG is a community for students interested in emergency medicine. It runs educational activities and serves as a hub for opportunities in the field.

Family Medicine Interest Group

This group introduces students to the many sides of family medicine and connects them with Georgetown’s Department of Family Medicine. It is a natural fit for students drawn to continuous, community-based care.

Food Is Medicine

Food Is Medicine studies the local, national, global and historical conditions that affect food security, and how they shape individual health and the health care system. Members look for ways Georgetown students can improve community health by preventing, managing and treating diet-related illness.

Georgetown Cardiovascular Research Club (GCRC)

GCRC connects students with cardiovascular research and fosters interest in careers related to heart health through mentorship, hands-on experience and education.

Georgetown Global Surgery Student Alliance

The Global Surgery Student Alliance is a national, student-run global surgery organization affiliated with the International Student Surgical Network (InciSioN), with chapters at more than 40 U.S. medical schools. The Georgetown chapter aims to educate, inspire and unite students around safe surgical care in resource-limited settings through engagement and mentorship.

Georgetown Med Social Running Club (GSRC)

GSRC makes running less intimidating. Runners of every ability, especially new runners, join casual runs, explore D.C. on foot and celebrate small victories together.

Georgetown Medical Illustration (GMI)

GMI produces medical illustrations for academic posters and publications, children’s books and get-well cards. Because most academic journals have historically depicted White patients, GMI aims to promote more diverse patient representation.

Georgetown Street Medicine Outreach

Georgetown Street Medicine Outreach (GSMO) is a student-run group that reaches out to people affected by homelessness. Students conduct street rounds, providing point-of-care testing, socks, hygiene items, clothing and information about local resources.

Georgetown University Bike Club (“The Krebs Cyclers”)

The Bike Club gives students a physical and social outlet during the demands of medical school and a way to join the GUMC and D.C. community in philanthropic rides. Riders of all skill levels start and finish together.

Georgetown Wilderness Medicine Group

Founded with help from Dr. Matthew Wilson, this group teaches the basics of wilderness medicine through practical workshops and virtual seminars, covering topics such as water rescue, snow rescue, mountain and alpine rescue, and other wilderness emergencies.

Giving A Boost (GAB)

GAB supports medical school applicants in the region who may not have access to mentors or strong pre-med advising. Georgetown student mentors help with primary and secondary applications and interview preparation.

GUSOM American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Chapter

AMSA works toward a health care system that is accessible and affordable. Members advocate for patients on issues including systemic racism, reproductive health care, LGBTQ+ health and the cost of care.

GUSOM Arts and Medicine

Arts and Medicine celebrates the creativity of the GUSOM community, giving students, faculty and staff opportunities to perform through dance, song, poetry and the spoken word, often in events co-sponsored with the school’s diversity office.

GUSOM Climbing

GUSOM Climbing builds an inclusive community and offers physical and mental challenge, creativity and stress relief through rock climbing.

GUSOM First Gen

GUSOM First Gen offers mentorship, research and volunteer opportunities, and a supportive community for first-generation medical students as they move into and through medical school.

GUSOM Golf Club

The Golf Club brings together advanced and beginner players among students, faculty, physicians and alumni to practice, learn and build relationships while staying active outdoors.

More Current Groups

Other current GUSOM groups include the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA), the Women of Color Collective, NAAMA NextGen for Arab and Arab-American students, the South Asian Medical Student Association (SAMoSA), the Hoya Medical Pride Alliance, the Military Medicine Interest Group for HPSP students, the Rural Medicine Interest Group, Hoya SIMS (peer teaching of clinical and surgical skills), Hoya Tutors (free tutoring for K-12 students in D.C.), the Hoya DOPE Project (naloxone distribution and overdose education), the Teen Promise Project (sex education in D.C. middle schools), Operation Smile, Project Stitches, Humans of GUSOM, the Ultrasound Club, and interest groups in internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, radiology, interventional radiology, surgery and urology.

The variety tells applicants something useful: Georgetown students build service, advocacy and specialty interests from the first year. When you write the secondary, a specific, honest link between your past work and one of these groups is more convincing than a list of names.

Clinical Rotations and Research Opportunities

Core Rotations and Sites

Third-year students complete the 48-week core clerkship year described in the curriculum section, either in block clerkships assigned by lottery or in one of the two Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships. Rotations take place across Georgetown’s affiliate institutions: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, Holy Cross Hospital, Inova Fairfax and Inova Loudoun, the VA Medical Center in D.C., Virginia Hospital Center and Walter Reed.

A few practical points about clinical placement:

• Travel. Sites are spread across D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The school’s budget assumes higher transportation costs in the third year ($5,700) and does not reimburse travel for required rotations.
• Choice. The lottery lets you rank site locations and specific rotations each quarter, but you will not control every assignment.
• Continuity. The Baltimore LIC (22 weeks, up to 12 students, housing provided) and the DC Health Equity LIC (20 weeks at FQHCs and D.C. affiliates, up to 10 students) trade the block schedule for months of continuity with the same patients and mentors.
• Fourth year. Acting internships, emergency medicine and electives, at Georgetown sites or other institutions.

International Electives

In the 2025 Graduation Questionnaire, 8 percent of Georgetown’s graduating seniors reported a global health experience during medical school. Georgetown’s Senior Associate Dean for International Programs directs the medical school’s international electives, through which first- and fourth-year medical students go to Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe for practical experiences with academic supervision. These electives are part of medical school, not something applicants need before they apply, but they show how the school connects global health to its mission.

Research at Georgetown

Georgetown University Medical Center is home to Georgetown’s biomedical research portfolio, and Georgetown University holds the R1 classification for very high research activity from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. GUMC’s research and education enterprise totals about $270 million. Main research areas that students can join include:

Cancer Research

The Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center was established in 1970 and named for football coach Vince Lombardi, who was treated for cancer at Georgetown University Hospital. In 1974 it became the 16th National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the country, and it remains the only center with that designation in the Washington, D.C., area. Lombardi is the research engine for clinical cancer research at MedStar Health in the D.C. region and at Hackensack Meridian Health in northern New Jersey. Its director is Louis M. Weiner, MD. Its work spans prevention, treatment and cure.

Mind and Brain Research

Neuroscience is a named strength of Georgetown’s MD/PhD program, and research in this area links scientific discovery to prevention, treatment and restorative therapies for neurological conditions.

Population Health and Global Health

Research in this area addresses health disparities and health equity at home and abroad, with a focus on vulnerable populations. Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Community Outreach and Engagement, mentors medical students and offers research opportunities in minority health and cancer health disparities in community settings.

Collaborative Research and Clinical Partnerships

The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science links Georgetown with Howard University College of Medicine and other partners to move discoveries into practice. Georgetown’s long partnership with MedStar Health adds clinical research across MedStar’s hospitals, and the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute and Lombardi offer students large clinical research programs.

Biomedical Graduate Education

Georgetown’s Biomedical Graduate Education division runs master’s, PhD and certificate programs across many disciplines. MD students can pair any Biomedical Graduate Education master’s with the MD, and the school’s MD/PhD students train through these programs.

Undergraduate and Graduate Research Initiatives

Georgetown’s research reach extends beyond the medical school, from the School of Nursing to the School of Health. Programs such as ARCHES (the Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship) prepare undergraduates for medical school through clinical research and community engagement.

Student Research Routes

Georgetown reported $58,940,794 in direct federal research grants and contracts for fiscal year 2024. Every student completes the Independent Scholarly Project with a faculty mentor. The Office of Student Research, the Dahlgren Memorial Library and the Student Research Advisory Committee support the work, and students present at the annual Kober Student Research Day. Students who want more can join the Clinical Research Scholars Track for a four-year mentored project, or the MD/PhD program for full research training.

Research With a Service Purpose

True to its Catholic and Jesuit heritage, Georgetown frames research as service: the goal is to turn discovery into better health, especially for people with the least access to care. That framing is useful in your essays. Research you describe should connect to patients or communities, not just to technique.

Service Clinics

Beyond the HOYA Clinic, MedStar Health also provides integrated care for underserved Medicaid families in Baltimore, Washington and nine Maryland counties through MedStar Family Choice, and the school’s community service requirement places every student at an approved site serving vulnerable people. Before medical school, many applicants build comparable experience through local free clinics or supervised medical internships for undergraduates that include hands-on patient care.

Notable Alumni, Faculty, Leadership and Admissions Staff

The people below hold verified roles at Georgetown or are verified graduates of its MD program. Titles were checked on October 28, 2026, against the school’s leadership page, its alumni testimonials and Department of Medicine faculty pages. Knowing them helps you understand the school; it does not imply any of them reviews your file or prefers a certain kind of applicant.

School Leadership

Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., MD, MHS, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine. Dr. Beauchamp oversees GUMC’s $270 million research and educational enterprise and works with MedStar Health leadership. He is a tenured faculty member in neurology with a secondary appointment in radiology. He earned his medical degree at Michigan State University, trained in radiology and neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins, chaired radiology at the University of Washington for 14 years, and later served as dean of MSU’s College of Human Medicine and as MSU’s Executive Vice President for Health Sciences (2019 to 2024). For applicants, his role signals how closely the school and MedStar work together.

Mary A. Furlong, MD, Vice Dean for Medical Education. Dr. Furlong is a Georgetown School of Medicine graduate who completed her pathology residency at Georgetown. She oversees the curriculum, student research, the Integrated Learning Center and standardized patient program, and international programs. A professor of pathology, she directs the pathology course and the third- and fourth-year clerkships, has won four Golden Apple teaching awards and helped develop the Medical Education track. She is also a Georgetown alumna, which shows how the school develops its own graduates as teachers.

Princy N. Kumar, MD, Vice Dean for Student Affairs. Dr. Kumar oversees student affairs and admissions functions for the medical education program. She is Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. She leads HIV clinical research as Georgetown’s principal investigator for the NIH-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group site and has consulted for the FDA and the Peace Corps.

Dustyn J. Wright, MA, Vice Dean and Chief of Operations. Dean Wright oversees operations, finances and strategy, including financial aid, enrollment, accreditation and continuous quality improvement. He previously worked in Georgetown’s admissions and student affairs offices and founded the Office of Student Learning. He holds an M.A. from Georgetown.

Shimae Fitzgibbons, MD, MEd, Senior Associate Dean for Evaluation and Assessment. An associate professor of surgery who joined the faculty in 2012, Dr. Fitzgibbons has served as surgery clerkship director and associate program director for general surgery. Her research focuses on how clinical and technical skills are assessed, which shapes how Georgetown students are evaluated.

Irma Frank, DDS, Senior Associate Dean for International Programs. Dr. Frank chairs the International Programs Committee and directs the medical school’s international electives in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. She has also served on the medical school admission interview committee.

Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Community Outreach and Engagement. Dr. Adams-Campbell is a professor of oncology at Lombardi and associate director of minority health and health disparities research. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and mentors medical students in community-based research.

Admissions and Financial Aid Staff

Robert P. Holman, MD, Associate Dean for Admissions. Dr. Holman is a Georgetown School of Medicine graduate who returned to Georgetown for internal medicine residency and chief residency, then completed an infectious diseases fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He practiced infectious diseases in Arlington and taught for Georgetown at Virginia Hospital Center, earning two Humanism in Medicine awards. From 2016 he served as Medical Director of the D.C. Fire and EMS Department, where cardiac arrest survival rose sharply. He served on GUSOM’s Committee on Admissions from 2001 to 2009 and on the USMLE Step 2 committee for many years. His career in emergency services and care for underserved patients mirrors what the school asks applicants to show.

Nicole M. Houle, EdD, Associate Dean for Financial Aid and Registrar. Dr. Houle joined the School of Medicine in 2014 and led medical admissions until 2025, modernizing the process and expanding holistic review. She now leads financial aid, which matters to every admitted student weighing Georgetown’s cost.

MD/PhD Leadership

Todd Waldman, MD, PhD, Director of the MD/PhD Program. Dr. Waldman leads the program’s mission to train medical scientists for careers in biomedical, bioethical and clinical research, with strengths in cancer research, neuroscience, pharmacology and bioethics.

Notable Alumni

Yalda Jabbarpour, MD (Class of 2008). A family physician, Dr. Jabbarpour is Director and Vice President of the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Primary Care. She credits Georgetown with making her a strong patient advocate who practices cura personalis in and out of the clinic. Her path from Georgetown to national primary care policy fits the school’s D.C. setting.

Sean Morgan, MD (Class of 2013). An emergency physician, Dr. Morgan serves as Medical Director for the D.C. Fire and EMS Department. He describes Georgetown as the foundation for his work serving the D.C. community.

Jon Zurawski, MD (Class of 2012). A neurologist and multiple sclerosis specialist and researcher, Dr. Zurawski credits his Georgetown training, especially shadowing a neurology mentor, for his career. He describes helping patients find hope and resilience in the face of incurable disease.

Stephanie Cardella, MD (Class of 2011). Dr. Cardella is a MedStar teaching scholar and associate program director for inpatient medicine in Georgetown’s internal medicine residency, where she continues to teach residents and medical students.

Pati Notario, MD (Class of 2010). A pediatrician, Dr. Notario was among the first student leaders of the HOYA Clinic as a first-year medical student.

Puneet Jolly, MD (Class of 2006). A graduate of Georgetown’s MD/PhD program, Dr. Jolly credits pre-clinical and clinical mentors for preparing him for residency and values the Jesuit education he received while coming from a different religious background.

Matthew Civilette, MD (Class of 2022). Dr. Civilette was a Health Professions Scholarship Program student at Georgetown and served as a U.S. Navy flight deck surgeon. He matched into anesthesiology in 2026, to begin after his service commitment.

Other Georgetown MD graduates appear among the faculty below, including Dr. Daniel Bunker (MD 2010) and Dr. Caroline Trevisan (MD 2017) in rheumatology and Dr. Tania A. Vora (MD 2010) in advanced heart failure cardiology.

Faculty: Division of Cardiology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

The Division of Cardiology in Georgetown’s Department of Medicine, based at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, describes its faculty as experts in all aspects of cardiac care who offer the most advanced diagnostic and treatment techniques. Medical students meet cardiology faculty during internal medicine clerkships, electives and research.

Allen J. Taylor, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chief

Dr. Taylor is Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine and Chairman of Cardiology at the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute. He earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University, trained at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Virginia. His interests include cardiovascular prevention, cardiovascular imaging, heart failure management and cardiovascular research.

Zayd A. Eldadah, MD, PhD

Dr. Eldadah is Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute and Assistant Professor of Medicine. He earned his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He focuses on heart rhythm disorders, atrial fibrillation, sudden cardiac death and the use of advanced technology in heart care.

Margaret B. Fischer, MD

Dr. Fischer directs the Congenital and Structural Arrhythmia Program at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Her fellowships were at the Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic. Her interests are adult congenital heart disease and inherited rhythm disorders.

Christy Kaiser, MD, FACC

Dr. Kaiser is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Program Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program. A Baylor College of Medicine graduate, she trained at Duke University Medical Center and completed her cardiology fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Her interests are general cardiology and heart failure.

Richard L. Morrissey, MD, FACC, FACP, FASE

Dr. Morrissey is Professor of Medicine and Associate Medical Director in hospital administration. He earned his medical degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, trained at the National Naval Medical Center and completed an echocardiography fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He focuses on coronary artery disease, echocardiography, preventive cardiology and valvular heart disease.

Monvadi B. Srichai-Parsia, MD, MS

Dr. Srichai-Parsia is Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Vice-Chief of the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute and Director of the Cardiac Non-Invasive Imaging Laboratory. She earned her medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed cardiology and advanced cardiovascular imaging fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She specializes in advanced cardiac imaging, including cardiac MR, CT and echocardiography.

Athanasios Thomaides, MD

Dr. Thomaides is Associate Professor of Medicine and a cardiac electrophysiologist. He earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, with fellowships at Temple University Hospital and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center. His interests include atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, pacemakers and defibrillators, and laser lead extraction.

Carolina I. Valdiviezo-Schlomp, MD

Dr. Valdiviezo-Schlomp is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Cardiology. She earned her medical degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, then trained at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Albert Einstein/Montefiore and Johns Hopkins. Her interests include atherosclerotic disease, prevention, cardiac CT and women’s cardiovascular health, including heart disease in pregnancy.

Charles German, MD

Dr. German is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Preventive Cardiology. He trained at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Wake Forest.

Faculty: Division of Rheumatology

Georgetown’s Division of Rheumatology is committed to patient care, education and research on conditions such as scleroderma and systemic lupus erythematosus, and it trains rheumatology fellows.

• Virginia D. Steen, MD, Professor, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program. Her interests include scleroderma, lupus, undifferentiated connective tissue disease, myositis and interstitial lung disease in connective tissue diseases.
• James N. Baraniuk, MD, Professor, a University of Manitoba graduate whose research covers neuroimmune regulation of mucosal function in rhinitis, sinusitis, asthma and chronic fatigue syndrome.
• Carol Deane Benedict, MD, Assistant Professor and wound healing medical specialist, a graduate of The George Washington University School of Medicine, with interests including delayed wound healing in autoimmune disease.
• Daniel Bunker, MD, Assistant Professor and Georgetown MD graduate (2010), focused on rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, myositis and musculoskeletal ultrasound.
• Megan Lockwood, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Lupus Program Director, a Case Western Reserve graduate with interests in lupus, women’s health, osteoporosis and medical education.
• Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, Professor and Director of the Childhood Arthritis Clinic, with interests in educational interventions in housestaff training and pediatric rheumatic diseases.
• Lauren Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, a University of Florida graduate focused on lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and myositis.
• Caroline Trevisan, MD, Assistant Professor and Georgetown MD graduate (2017), who trained at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and focuses on musculoskeletal ultrasound, myositis, psoriatic arthritis, gout, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
• Sean A. Whelton, MD, FACR, FACP, Allan J. Goody Professor of Medicine, Program Director for Internal Medicine and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine.

Faculty at the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center also teach in the division: Gail Kerr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Rheumatology at the VA Medical Center, with interests in vasculitis and cryoglobulinemia; Joyce Joseph, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, focused on musculoskeletal ultrasound; and Joseph Croft, MD, FACP, MACR, Clinical Professor of Medicine and past President of the American College of Rheumatology.

Why These Profiles Matter to Applicants

These profiles show three things about Georgetown. First, many leaders are Georgetown graduates or long-time Georgetown teachers, so the culture is passed on directly. Second, the faculty includes people who have run D.C.’s emergency services, international programs and community research, which matches the school’s service mission. Third, cardiology, rheumatology and other divisions train fellows and run research that students can join through electives and the Independent Scholarly Project.

Admissions Statistics and Class Profile

Georgetown posts a class profile on its MD Program page. The page does not name the entering class it describes, so every figure below is labeled as the most recent posted profile, year not stated.

How to Read These Numbers

• Applications versus applicants. The profile reports total applications. The school’s FAQ adds that Georgetown receives “approximately 16,000+” AMCAS applications each year, so the posted profile sits slightly below the usual volume.
• Interviews. 1,112 of 14,953 applicants, about 7.4%, were interviewed. That is the share of applicants interviewed, not an acceptance rate.
• Offers and acceptance rate. Georgetown does not publish the number of acceptance offers. Without offers, no true acceptance rate can be calculated. Dividing the class size by applications (203 of 14,953) gives a matriculation ratio of about 1.4%, which is lower than an acceptance rate because many admitted applicants enroll elsewhere.
• Means, not medians or minimums. The 514 MCAT and 3.74 GPA are means for the incoming class. There is no published minimum MCAT or GPA; the school’s own benchmark for a highly competitive applicant is a BCPM GPA of 3.6 or higher.
• Residency. Georgetown has no in-state preference. The class profile shows students from 31 states and D.C. In the 2025 entering class, only 7 of 203 matriculants were D.C. residents, so nearly every student comes from somewhere else.
• Age and degrees. An average age of 24, a range up to 44 and more than one in five students holding an advanced degree show that gap years and graduate study are common and accepted. Georgetown says a gap year is not detrimental; what matters is how you use it.

The 2025 Entering Class in National Data

AAMC data for the 2025 entering class add detail that the school’s profile does not cover. Students could choose more than one race or ethnicity, so these counts add up to more than the 203 students in the class.

Two points stand out. Almost every student arrived with research, shadowing and community service, which matches the school’s experience benchmarks. And about a third of the class (35%) did not major in science or math, so a humanities or social science major is no barrier if your prerequisites and experiences are strong. Total MD enrollment across all four years was 918 in October 2025.

Gender Distribution

The posted class profile shows 119 women and 84 men, so women made up about 59% of the incoming class.

Match and Outcomes

Georgetown publishes its residency match lists on its admissions site, which show where recent graduates placed by specialty and institution. Review the latest list for the specialties you are considering, and remember that match results reflect each student’s choices as well as their training.

Tips and Strategies for Admission

Admission to Georgetown recognizes academic strength, dedication to service and a commitment to the values of cura personalis. The admissions process is holistic, so strategy is about showing all five review areas clearly and consistently. These tips translate Georgetown’s stated priorities into concrete steps.

1. Meet the Experience Benchmarks With Room to Spare

Georgetown names its targets: 200 or more hours of hands-on clinical experience, 100 or more hours of research and 100 or more hours of direct service to underserved people. Treat these as floors, not goals. Longitudinal work matters more than a scattered list. A year of weekly shifts at one clinic shows commitment better than five short placements. If you are short on direct patient care, look for internships for pre-med students and local roles where you take vitals, room patients or help with intake under supervision, and keep most of your clinical hours in the United States, as the school asks.

2. Make Service Face to Face

The school is clear that virtual or phone-based service does not count toward direct encounters, and that stocking shelves or transporting patients is volunteering, not clinical work. Choose service where you talk with and help people who are sick, disabled, unhoused or otherwise marginalized. Then reflect on what you learned from them, not just what you gave.

3. Protect Your Science GPA

Georgetown emphasizes the BCPM GPA and names 3.6 or higher as highly competitive. If your science GPA is lower, a post-baccalaureate program adds directly to it, while graduate grades are viewed separately. If your prerequisites are five or more years old, you need recent science coursework anyway.

4. Time the MCAT

Only 2024, 2025 and 2026 MCATs count for the 2027 entering class, with September 2026 the latest test month. Georgetown uses your most recent score, and each file is reviewed only once. Retake only if you are confident of improving, and finish before your file is reviewed.

5. Apply Early and Return the Secondary Fast

Admissions are rolling, and the committee reads each file once. Submit AMCAS early, return the secondary within about two weeks and make sure your letters are at AMCAS. A complete file in August is reviewed against a smaller pool of decisions already made than one completed in December.

6. Build Letters That Cover Three Areas

Georgetown recommends a balance of academic, clinical and service letters. Ask a supervisor from your longest clinical or service role, and a science faculty member who knows you beyond a grade. Use a committee letter if your school offers one.

7. Use a Gap Year Well

The average matriculant is 24, and Georgetown says a gap year is not detrimental. What counts is what you do with it. Many applicants use a gap year to add research and patient care, or join one of the structured pre-med gap year programs that combine supervised clinical work with service. Reapplicants should show clearly what is new, since Georgetown reviews returning files with a focus on new information.

8. Write About Whole-Person Care

Every essay is a chance to show cura personalis. Describe a patient’s circumstances, fears and support, and what you did about them. Specific moments beat general claims about compassion.

9. Know Georgetown’s Programs Before You Write

Read about the Longitudinal Academic Tracks, the two LICs, the HOYA Clinic, the community service requirement and the Independent Scholarly Project. Pick the two or three that truly connect to your experience, and explain the connection in your “Why Georgetown” essay.

10. Get Feedback

Georgetown does not give feedback to applicants who are not admitted. If you want an outside review of your school list, essays or interview skills, IMA offers medical school admissions consulting services for personal statements, secondaries and mock interviews.

Secondary Application Questions, Example Responses and Analysis

Georgetown sends its secondary to every verified AMCAS applicant who is not an international applicant, starting in July. For the 2026-2027 cycle, the secondary has three essays: two short answers of up to 1,000 characters and one essay of up to 3,000 characters. Character limits include spaces. The prompts are the same as in 2025-2026. The secondary, the $140 fee (waived only for AMCAS FAP applicants) and your letters are due December 15, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET; MD/PhD applicants must finish by November 15, 2026. Plan to answer all three.

Georgetown has not published separate essay prompts for MD/PhD or dual-degree applicants for 2026-2027. Answer every question that appears in your portal. Earlier Georgetown secondaries also asked short yes/no and checkbox questions, for example whether you are enrolled in a program during the application year and whether you completed Georgetown programs such as ARCHES, GEP, GEMS or the Special Master’s Program. If your 2026-2027 portal includes questions like these, answer them accurately and briefly.

For prompts from other schools, see IMA’s medical school secondary essay prompts database.

Each example below is an original, illustrative response written for this guide. It is labeled “Illustrative example, not an actual applicant essay.” Do not copy it. Use it to see how an answer can meet every part of a prompt within the limit, then write from your own experience.

Prompt 1: Values and Cura Personalis (1,000 characters)

“The Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) strives to ensure that its students become respectful physicians, with cultural humility, who embrace all dimensions of caring for the whole person. With our Jesuit values of Cura Personalis, being Men and Women for Others, and Unity in Community, we are steadfast in our commitment to provide care for all. Please describe how your perspectives, values, and individual life experiences will contribute to these GUSOM priorities.”

Who answers: all MD applicants. Limit: 1,000 characters.

What it asks. This prompt asks three things in one sentence: your perspectives, your values and your life experiences, and how each will contribute to Georgetown’s priorities. Those priorities are named: cultural humility, care of the whole person, the three Jesuit values and care for all. With 1,000 characters, about 160 to 180 words, you have room for one short story and one forward-looking sentence.

How to approach it. – Choose one experience that shows care of the whole person in action. – Name a value plainly and show it through what you did. – Connect to at least one of the three Jesuit values by name, but do not try to force all three. – End with what you will contribute at Georgetown, to classmates and patients.

Illustrative example, not an actual applicant essay (944 characters)

My grandmother raised me in Prince George’s County while my mother was deployed. When her diabetes worsened, I learned that her care depended on more than insulin. She needed someone to read labels, call the pharmacy and sit with her when she was afraid. That was my first lesson in care of the whole person. As a medical assistant at a community health center for two years, I carried it into every intake. I asked about rides, food and who was home, not only symptoms, and I flagged gaps to our social worker. Being a man for others has meant returning every Saturday to the shelter clinic where I check blood pressures, even when the work feels routine. I bring a perspective shaped by caregiving early, and a habit of asking what a patient is not saying. At Georgetown, I hope to bring that steadiness to the HOYA Clinic and to classmates whose lives differ from mine, so unity in community is something we practice, not a phrase we repeat.

Why this example works. – Perspectives and life experiences. The caregiving story gives a specific perspective (seeing care from a family member’s side) in two sentences. – Values. Steadiness and attention to what patients do not say are shown through intake questions and weekly shelter shifts, not just claimed. – GUSOM priorities. It names cura personalis through “care of the whole person,” being “a man for others” and “unity in community,” and ties each to an action. – Contribution. The closing sentence says what the applicant will bring to the HOYA Clinic and to classmates, which answers the “will contribute” part of the prompt. – Length. It uses most of the limit without padding.

Mistakes to avoid. – Listing the three values with a sentence each and no story. – Writing about identity in general terms without showing how it shapes your care. – Repeating your personal statement word for word. – Using the essay to praise Georgetown instead of describing yourself.

Prompt 2: Further Information (1,000 characters)

“Is there any further information that you would like the Committee on Admissions to be aware of when reviewing your file that you were not able to notate in another section of this or the AMCAS Application?”

Who answers: all MD applicants. Limit: 1,000 characters.

What it asks. This is an open box for information the committee would not otherwise see: a hardship that affected grades, an institutional action, a change in plans, or a major update since AMCAS, such as a new job, degree or publication. Because Georgetown reads each file only once and accepts updates later only from applicants invited to interview, this is the best place to put context in front of the committee at the start.

How to approach it. – Use it if you have real context or an important update. If you have nothing new, a brief, honest answer is better than filler. – State the facts plainly, take responsibility and show what changed. – Add a current update if it strengthens your file.

Illustrative example, not an actual applicant essay (883 characters)

In the spring of my sophomore year, my father had a stroke. I drove home to Richmond most weekends to help my mother with his rehabilitation, and I withdrew from organic chemistry and earned a C in physics. I retook organic chemistry the next fall and earned an A, and my science GPA rose every semester after that. I share this not as an excuse but as context for the dip on my transcript. Caring for my father taught me how much recovery depends on family, transportation and a clinician who explains things plainly. It is also why my clinical hours began in a stroke rehabilitation unit. Since my AMCAS was submitted, I have finished my final semester with a 3.9 and started a full-time position as a research coordinator for a cardiac rehabilitation study, where I consent patients and track their follow-up visits. I would be glad to discuss any part of this with the committee.

Why this example works. – New information. It explains a withdrawal and a low grade that the transcript shows without context. – Responsibility and evidence. It names the problem without excuses and points to proof of recovery: an A on retake and a rising science GPA. – Connection to medicine. It links the experience to the applicant’s clinical choices in one sentence, without turning the answer into a second personal statement. – Update. It adds a new role that started after AMCAS, with concrete duties.

Mistakes to avoid. – Re-arguing every grade on your transcript. – Repeating activities already in AMCAS. – Using the space for a generic “I am passionate about medicine” essay. – Leaving out a required disclosure, such as an institutional action, that you should address directly.

Prompt 3: Why Georgetown (3,000 characters)

“Why have you chosen to apply to the Georgetown University School of Medicine and how do you think your education at Georgetown will prepare you to become a physician for the future?”

Who answers: all MD applicants. Limit: 3,000 characters, about 450 to 500 words.

What it asks. Two questions: why you chose Georgetown, and how a Georgetown education will prepare you to be “a physician for the future.” The second part asks you to describe the future of medicine as you see it and the kind of doctor it needs.

How to approach it. – Open with a moment from your own experience that shows what you want from medical school. – Give two or three specific reasons, each tied to a real Georgetown program and to something you have already done. – Answer the “physician for the future” part directly: what will be different about medicine, and what skills you need. – End with what you will contribute, not only what you will receive.

Illustrative example, not an actual applicant essay (2,759 characters)

On Tuesday nights at the free clinic where I volunteer in Langley Park, half of our patients speak Spanish first. For two years I have taken their vital signs and walked them through intake, and I have watched what happens when a patient has to wait for an interpreter to say she is scared. I want to train somewhere that treats that moment as part of medicine, not an inconvenience. Georgetown is that place for three reasons.

First, cura personalis is built into the structure of the school, not just its mission statement. A clinical skills course with that name runs through the first two years, and every student completes community service with an underserved population before graduating. I have learned that good intentions fade without structure. A required commitment, and a distinction for those who go further, tells me the school expects service to last.

Second, Georgetown would let me grow the specific skills I have only started to build. The Clinical Medical Spanish Track would take my conversational Spanish to the level of a full patient interview, consent and treatment plan in Spanish. The HOYA Clinic site on Monroe Street, which serves Spanish-speaking patients in Columbia Heights, would let me use those skills early. In my third year, I would apply to the DC Health Equity LIC, because following a panel of patients at a health center for twenty weeks is closer to the medicine I want to practice than a series of short blocks.

Third, Georgetown would prepare me to think beyond one patient at a time. Research I did on missed follow-up visits after hospital discharge showed me that many problems I saw at the clinic start in policy, not in the exam room. Studying in Washington, with bridge courses in health policy and advocacy and an Independent Scholarly Project required of every student, would let me test questions like that with a faculty mentor and present the results.

A physician for the future will care for patients who are older, more diverse and more often managing several chronic conditions, in a system that keeps changing. I think the physicians who do this well will be fluent in their patients’ languages, comfortable working with social workers and lawyers as well as nurses, and grounded enough in their own values to stay patient when the system is not. Georgetown’s Jesuit focus on reflection and care for the whole person, alongside strong clinical training through MedStar, is the combination I believe will make me that kind of doctor.

I also know what I would contribute. I have spent years in rooms where patients feel unheard, and I have learned to slow down, ask one more question and follow through. I would bring that to my classmates, my clinical teams and the communities Georgetown serves.

Why this example works. – Why Georgetown. Each of the three reasons connects a real Georgetown feature (the Cura Personalis course and service requirement, the Clinical Medical Spanish Track, the HOYA Clinic’s Monroe Street site and the DC Health Equity LIC, the health policy bridges and the Independent Scholarly Project) to something the applicant has already done. – Physician for the future. The fifth paragraph answers the second question directly, describing changes in patients and teams and the skills they will require. – Mission fit. The essay reflects care of the whole person and service without quoting the mission statement. – Contribution. The last paragraph turns from what Georgetown offers to what the applicant will give. – Length. About 2,760 characters, under the 3,000-character limit.

Mistakes to avoid. – Praising Washington, D.C., or Georgetown’s reputation without a personal link. – Naming programs you would not actually join, or listing every track. – Ignoring the second half of the question about the future of medicine. – Stating facts about Georgetown that are not true; check every program on the school’s website before you mention it. – Running far under the limit. You have room for real reasoning, so use it.

Secondary Timing and Strategy

• Pre-write drafts in spring, using these prompts, so you can submit within about two weeks of receiving the invitation.
• Count characters with spaces in a plain-text editor before pasting into the portal.
• Keep a record of what you wrote. Interviewers may ask about anything in your application.
• Do not send emails with updates. If you are invited to interview, updates go through the portal as text.

Interview Format and Preparation

Georgetown interviews are by invitation only and are conducted virtually on Zoom. Each applicant receives one interview, one-on-one, not a multiple mini interview (MMI) and not a panel.

Confirmed Format and Logistics

• Invitations begin in mid-July. Applicants are notified about four to six weeks before their interview date and must schedule within two weeks of the invitation, or the application is withdrawn.
• Virtual presentation. Before the interview, invited applicants must attend a virtual presentation. These are held on Mondays from mid-August through January, except holidays.
• Interview days. Virtual interviews are scheduled Tuesday through Friday, September through February.
• Interviewer. A member of the basic science faculty, the clinical faculty or a selected fourth-year medical student.
• Length. About 45 minutes.
• Purpose. The interview gives the Committee on Admissions information about your non-cognitive skills. Candidates are encouraged to discuss their background, motivation, interests and goals.
• After the interview. Interviewed applicants may submit a thank-you note and text updates through the secondary portal. Emailed notes are not added to the file.
• Decisions arrive by email; turnaround is generally around twelve weeks and varies through the cycle.
• Withdrawing. Email [email protected] with your AMCAS ID and legal name. If an interview is scheduled, tell the office as soon as possible so the slot can go to someone else.

What to Expect in the Conversation

Because the interview is a single one-on-one conversation, expect questions about your background, why you chose medicine, your experiences and what you learned from them, and challenges you have faced. Interviewers may also ask how you would handle an ethical situation, or what cura personalis means to you. Georgetown has not published a list of interview questions or a scoring rubric, so use the guidance below as general practice advice, not a description of Georgetown’s internal process.

How to Prepare

1. Know your file. Reread your AMCAS activities, personal statement and all three secondary essays. A 45-minute conversation leaves time for follow-up questions on any of them.
2. Prepare three or four stories. Choose experiences that show care of the whole person, teamwork, a mistake you learned from and sustained service. Practice telling each in about two minutes.
3. Know Georgetown specifically. Be ready to explain which programs you would join and why, such as a Longitudinal Academic Track, an LIC or the HOYA Clinic.
4. Practice ethics questions. Use a simple structure: identify the people affected, the competing values, what more you would want to know and what you would do.
5. Plan for a faculty member or a fourth-year student. A student interviewer may ask more about how you handle stress and what you want from your classmates; a faculty interviewer may probe your research or clinical reasoning. Be ready for both.
6. Treat the virtual presentation seriously. It is required and gives you details to reference later.
7. Set up your space. Test Zoom, lighting, audio and your internet connection. Use a quiet room and a neutral background.
8. Practice out loud. IMA’s list of medical school interview questions is a good starting point, and a mock interview through IMA’s medical school admissions consulting can help you sharpen answers.

After the Interview

Send a short thank-you note through the portal if you wish. If you have a significant update, such as new grades or a publication, submit it through the portal as text. If you are waitlisted, letters of interest go through the portal as well, and the waitlist stays open until orientation.

The interview is also your chance to learn whether Georgetown fits you. Ask your interviewer about their own experience at the school, and listen for how they describe cura personalis in daily practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Georgetown have a medical school?

Yes. Georgetown University School of Medicine, founded in 1851, is the first Catholic medical school in the United States and was the second medical school established in Washington, D.C. It awards the MD degree and offers an MD/PhD program and several dual degrees. It is part of Georgetown University Medical Center and trains students through a long partnership with MedStar Health, including MedStar Georgetown University Hospital next to campus. If you are researching “Georgetown Medical School,” this is the program you are looking for.

What is the ranking of Georgetown Medical School?

Georgetown is a nationally known research and teaching school, but rankings change from year to year and use different methods, so check the current U.S. News & World Report edition for the latest research and primary care ranks. For your decision, the more useful facts are concrete: an LCME-accredited MD program since 1949, the only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the D.C. area at Lombardi, required scholarship and service for every student, and clinical training across MedStar’s hospitals.

How does Georgetown University Medical School’s ranking compare nationally?

Rank positions shift with each edition, so compare the current lists yourself rather than relying on an older figure. Georgetown draws one of the largest applicant pools of any medical school, about 15,000 to 16,000 applications a year, which says more about its national standing than any single number. Weigh rank alongside cost, curriculum, clinical sites and mission fit, since those shape your daily life for four years.

Is Georgetown a good medical school?

Yes, for students whose goals match its strengths. Georgetown is LCME-accredited, offers clinical training across a large regional health system, runs the only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the D.C. area and builds service and scholarship into graduation requirements. It is especially strong for students who want whole-person care, service to underserved communities, health policy exposure in Washington, or structured scholarly tracks. Its main drawback for many students is cost, with a first-year budget of $117,954 for 2026-27.

Why should I choose Georgetown Medical School?

Choose Georgetown if cura personalis, care of the whole person, describes how you want to practice. The school offers a Jesuit framework for service, a required community service commitment, 13 Longitudinal Academic Tracks, two longitudinal integrated clerkships, the student-run HOYA Clinic, the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and a D.C. location close to national health policy. If those features connect to what you have already done, Georgetown is a strong fit. If cost is your deciding factor, compare aid offers carefully.

What is the acceptance rate for Georgetown Medical School?

Georgetown does not publish an acceptance rate, and it does not publish the number of acceptance offers, so no true rate can be calculated. Its most recent posted class profile shows 14,953 applications, 1,112 applicants interviewed (about 7.4%) and an incoming class of 203. The share of applicants who receive an offer is lower than the interview share. Treat Georgetown as a highly selective school and apply to a balanced list.

What are the average MCAT scores for students accepted into Georgetown Medical School?

The school’s most recent posted class profile shows a mean MCAT of 514 for the incoming class. That is an average, not a minimum. Georgetown sets no MCAT cutoff and evaluates scores holistically. For the 2027 entering class, only MCATs taken in 2024, 2025 or 2026 (through September 2026) count, and Georgetown considers your most recent score.

What is the average GPA of students admitted to Georgetown Medical School?

The most recent posted class profile shows a mean overall GPA of 3.74 for the incoming class. Georgetown emphasizes the science (BCPM) GPA and describes a BCPM GPA of 3.6 or higher as highly competitive. Post-baccalaureate grades are added to your undergraduate science GPA, so a strong post-bacc can raise it. Graduate program grades are viewed separately.

What is the class profile like at Georgetown Medical School?

The most recent posted profile describes an incoming class of 203 students from 83 colleges, 31 states plus D.C. and six countries including the U.S. The class included 119 women and 84 men, 20.7% held an advanced degree, and the average age was 24, with a range of 21 to 44. The mean overall GPA was 3.74 and the mean MCAT was 514. The profile shows a national, mature class with many students who took time after college.

What are the admission requirements for Georgetown Medical School?

You need 90 completed credit hours when you apply and a bachelor’s degree before you start. Required courses are a year each of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry (biochemistry can replace the second semester) and physics, all with lab, plus one semester of college math (statistics is acceptable). You also need a 2024 to 2026 MCAT, a committee letter or two to five letters, the AMCAS application, the secondary with its $140 fee, and U.S. citizenship, federal-aid-eligible status or DACA status.

What is the admissions process like for Georgetown Medical School?

You submit AMCAS by November 1, 2026. After verification, Georgetown emails a secondary to every non-international applicant, due December 15, 2026, with the fee and letters. The committee reviews complete files once, on a rolling basis, weighing essays, experiences, MCAT, science GPA and letters holistically. Selected applicants receive one virtual, one-on-one interview. Decisions arrive by email, generally about twelve weeks after the file is complete.

What does the Georgetown Medical School secondary application involve?

For 2026-2027, the secondary has three essays: a 1,000-character response on how your perspectives, values and life experiences will contribute to Georgetown’s Jesuit priorities; a 1,000-character “further information” response; and a 3,000-character essay on why you chose Georgetown and how it will prepare you to be a physician for the future. The fee is $140, waived only for AMCAS FAP applicants, and the deadline is December 15, 2026 (November 15 for MD/PhD).

Can you provide examples of secondary essays for Georgetown Medical School?

Yes. The secondary section above gives an original illustrative response to each of the three 2026-2027 prompts, written within the exact character limits, with an analysis of how each answers every part of the question and common mistakes to avoid. Use the examples to understand structure and depth, not as text to copy. Your essays should describe your own experiences and the Georgetown programs that truly connect to them.

What is the secondary deadline?

For MD applicants, the secondary, $140 fee and letters of recommendation are due December 15, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET. For MD/PhD applicants, the deadline is November 15, 2026. Georgetown grants no exceptions. Because review is rolling, aim to return the secondary within about two weeks of receiving it rather than waiting for the deadline.

Does Georgetown use AMCAS?

Yes. Georgetown uses AMCAS as its primary application. The 2026-2027 AMCAS deadline is November 1, 2026, for MD applicants and October 1, 2026, for MD/PhD applicants. Transcripts must reach AMCAS by November 15 (MD) or October 15 (MD/PhD), and letters must be submitted through the AMCAS Letters system.

What is the median MCAT and GPA at Georgetown?

Georgetown’s own class profile reports means rather than medians: a mean MCAT of 514 and a mean overall GPA of 3.74 for the incoming class in its most recent posted profile. Georgetown describes a BCPM GPA of 3.6 or higher as highly competitive and sets no minimum MCAT. Use the means as a guide to the typical admitted student, not as a cutoff.

Does Georgetown accept international applicants? DACA?

Georgetown considers U.S. citizens and non-citizens who are eligible for federal financial aid, such as permanent residents, conditional permanent residents, refugees and asylees, and certain U.S. nationals and citizens of Palau, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. DACA recipients are also eligible. International applicants who are not eligible for federal aid, including Canadian citizens without U.S. status, are no longer considered. Confirm your status documents before paying the $140 secondary fee.

Does Georgetown pre-screen applicants before sending the secondary?

No, except for international applicants. Every other verified AMCAS applicant who selects Georgetown receives the secondary, within the first 5 to 7 business days of July or within 5 to 7 business days of verification. The invitation comes from [email protected] with the subject “Secondary Application Invitation,” so check your spam folder.

What is the interview process like at Georgetown Medical School?

Georgetown holds one interview per applicant, one-on-one and virtual on Zoom, lasting about 45 minutes. It is not a multiple mini interview. The interviewer is a basic science faculty member, a clinical faculty member or a selected fourth-year medical student. Invited applicants must first attend a virtual presentation (Mondays, mid-August to January), and interviews run Tuesday through Friday from September through February. You must schedule within two weeks of your invitation.

How does Georgetown Medical School compare to George Washington Medical School?

Both are private MD schools in Washington, D.C., with large applicant pools. Georgetown is a Catholic, Jesuit school built around cura personalis, with clinical training through MedStar Health, a required community service commitment, 13 Longitudinal Academic Tracks and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. George Washington has its own hospital partner, curriculum and admissions rules. Compare each school’s current requirements, costs and clinical sites, and read IMA’s GW guide, linked in the related guides below.

How much does Georgetown Medical School cost?

For 2026-27, tuition is $68,778 for every student, with no in-state rate. With fees, living costs, health insurance and loan fees, the estimated first-year cost of attendance is $117,954, and the four yearly budgets total about $479,400. Average graduate debt was $248,805 for the 2023-2024 academic year. Apply for institutional aid with the GUSOM aid form, FAFSA (code E00518) and CSS Profile (code 3466) by the posted February deadline.

How can I increase my chances of getting into Georgetown Medical School?

Meet or exceed the school’s experience benchmarks: 200 or more hours of hands-on clinical work, 100 or more hours of research and 100 or more hours of face-to-face service to underserved people. Keep your science GPA at or above 3.6 if you can, take the MCAT by September 2026, apply early, return the secondary quickly and write essays that show care of the whole person through specific stories. Steady, supervised clinical work over months, not weeks, strengthens the clinical part of your file. Then prepare well for the one-on-one interview.

Are there programs for high school students interested in medicine at Georgetown?

Yes. Georgetown runs the Gateway Exploration Program (GEP) and the GUSOM Summer Immersion Program for high school students interested in medicine. Separately, the Early Assurance Program lets current Georgetown undergraduates apply for assured medical school admission at the end of sophomore year. High school students who want hands-on exposure elsewhere can also look at medical internships for high school students.

How does Georgetown Medical School support its students academically and professionally?

Georgetown offers academic advising through the Office of Student Learning and Academic Advising, student affairs support, career and residency advising, the Mind-Body Medicine program, research help from the Office of Student Research, and peer groups such as Hoya SIMS for clinical skills practice. Financial aid staff offer budgeting and loan counseling. Students can also join a Longitudinal Academic Track and graduate with distinction.

What is the curriculum like at Georgetown Medical School?

Georgetown uses the Journeys Curriculum. The Foundational Phase covers organ-system modules in six blocks over the first two years, with the Cura Personalis clinical skills course throughout and patient contact in the first year. The Core Clinical Phase is a 48-week clerkship year, with an option to join a 20- or 22-week longitudinal integrated clerkship. The Advanced Clinical Phase includes acting internships, emergency medicine and electives. Every student completes an Independent Scholarly Project and community service.

Does Georgetown require Casper or PREview?

No. Georgetown requires no situational judgment test or other added assessment for 2026-2027 and does not use PREview scores. Your required materials are AMCAS, the MCAT, letters, the secondary and fee, and, if invited, the interview. If your secondary invitation lists an extra assessment, follow it.

Is there an MCAT or GPA minimum at Georgetown?

No published minimum exists for either. Georgetown reviews the MCAT holistically and describes a BCPM GPA of 3.6 or higher as highly competitive. You do need a valid MCAT from 2024, 2025 or 2026, and you must have 90 credit hours completed when you apply.

Can I apply if my prerequisites are more than five years old?

Yes, but you need recent science coursework. If your prerequisites were completed five or more years before your planned matriculation year, Georgetown requires that you completed a post-baccalaureate program, a graduate program with graduate-level biological science courses, or at least a year of substantive upper-division or graduate science courses.

Does Georgetown have an Early Decision Program?

No. Georgetown does not offer Early Decision. Current Georgetown undergraduates can apply through the Early Assurance Program at the end of sophomore year, and 10 Early Assurance students entered with the 2025 class. Everyone else applies through the regular rolling process.

When do Georgetown acceptances go out?

For the 2026-2027 cycle, acceptance notices go out from October 15, 2026 through July 30, 2027. Admissions are rolling, so a complete file early in the cycle is reviewed sooner. Accepted students pay a $500 deposit that is credited to tuition.

When does the first year start at Georgetown?

Classes for the entering class begin August 2, 2027. The 2026 entering class had orientation on August 3, 2026 and started classes on August 10, 2026, so expect a similar early-August schedule.

How many students attend Georgetown School of Medicine?

Each entering class has about 203 students, and total MD enrollment was 918 in October 2025. Only 7 students in the 2025 entering class were D.C. residents, so the class is drawn from across the country.

Do I need a car at Georgetown School of Medicine?

Georgetown strongly recommends a driver’s license and access to a car. Many clinical sites and hospitals are hard to reach by public transit, especially in the clinical years, and students without a car arrange their own transportation. The cost of attendance budget rises in the third year for this reason.

How can I learn more about Georgetown Medical School admissions?

Start with Georgetown’s Guide to Application and MD Admissions FAQ, which answer most questions. The admissions office holds virtual information sessions through the year and answers questions by email at [email protected]. It does not offer campus tours, but a virtual campus tour is available on the school’s website.

Related Medical School Guides

Georgetown is one of three MD schools in Washington, D.C. These related guides cover nearby and regional MD programs with different missions, costs and admissions rules. They are not a list of “safety” schools; selectivity varies widely.

• Howard University College of Medicine: another D.C. MD school, a historically Black institution with a long service mission, and Georgetown’s partner in the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
• George Washington University School of Medicine: the other private MD school in D.C., a useful comparison for applicants who want to train in the capital at a different kind of institution.
• VCU School of Medicine: a public MD school in Richmond, Virginia, a regional option for applicants who want a large academic medical center within driving distance of D.C.
• University of Louisville School of Medicine: a public MD school in the South with an urban academic medical center, worth comparing for cost.
• University of Kentucky College of Medicine: a public MD school in Lexington, an option for applicants interested in regional and rural care in the South.
• University of Georgia School of Medicine: a public MD school in Athens, Georgia, a different setting and cost structure for applicants interested in the South.
• Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: a research-intensive MD school in nearby Baltimore and the home of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Georgetown’s MD/MPH partner.

For applicants considering a PA career instead of an MD, IMA’s overview of PA programs in the D.C. area compares local options.

More Definitive Guides

Applying to medical school means applying to more than one program. Similar to Georgetown, many schools emphasize holistic care, research and service to underserved communities. Explore IMA’s other definitive guides to build a balanced list that fits your goals:

• Yale School of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Baylor College of Medicine
• West Virginia University School of Medicine
• West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
• Indiana University School of Medicine
• Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine
• University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
• Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Meharry Medical College
• University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUMC)
• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine
• Loma Linda University School of Medicine
• John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM)
• Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (KansasCOM)
• UC Irvine School of Medicine
• Nova Southeastern University College of Allopathic Medicine
• Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine
• University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
• Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (ARCOM)
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
• Tulane University School of Medicine
• LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine
• LSU Shreveport Medical School
• Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
• University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine
• University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
• University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
• Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM)
• The University of New Mexico School of Medicine
• Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM)
• University of South Alabama College of Medicine
• University of Alabama School of Medicine
• FIU College of Medicine
• UCF College of Medicine
• USF Morsani College of Medicine
• Florida State University College of Medicine
• Morehouse School of Medicine
• Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM)
• Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine (CUSOM)
• ECU Brody School of Medicine
• Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM)
• University of South Carolina Medical School
• Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
• Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM)
• Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM)
• Penn State Medical School
• CUNY School of Medicine
• SUNY Downstate Medical School
• NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine
• NYU Long Island School of Medicine
• Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Albany Medical College
• Norton College of Medicine at Upstate Medical University
• Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
• Hofstra Zucker School of Medicine
• Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• University of Rochester Medical School
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED)
• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• University of Toledo College of Medicine
• Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
• Ohio State University College of Medicine
• Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
• Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM)
• Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS)
• Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU)
• A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Saint Louis University School of Medicine
• University of Missouri Medical School
• Kansas City University (KCU)
• UMKC School of Medicine
• New York Medical College
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Case Western Medical School
• University of North Carolina Medical School
• University of Florida Medical School
• Emory University School of Medicine
• Boston University College of Medicine
• California University of Science and Medicine
• UC San Diego Medical School
• California Northstate University College of Medicine
• Touro University of California
• CHSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
• UC Davis School of Medicine
• UC Riverside School of Medicine
• USC Keck School of Medicine
• UT Southwestern Medical School
• Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio
• University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
• UT Austin’s Dell Medical School
• UTMB School of Medicine
• McGovern Medical School at UT Health
• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
• UNT Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
• University of Houston College of Medicine
• Texas A&M College of Medicine
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• St. George’s University School of Medicine
• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (in Pennsylvania)
• Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Western University of Health Sciences (in California)
• Drexel University College of Medicine
• Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago
• Perelman School of Medicine
• UCLA Medical School
• NYU Medical School
• Washington University School of Medicine
• Brown Medical School

How International Medical Aid Can Help

Georgetown asks for hands-on clinical experience, direct service to underserved people and honest reflection on what both taught you. International Medical Aid (IMA) helps students build that kind of experience. IMA’s pre-med internships abroad place students in clinics and hospitals in Kenya and other sites, where interns take vitals, do intake and triage and help with direct patient care under the supervision of local clinicians. IMA’s pre-med internships fit into a summer, a semester or a gap year.

Students comparing programs can explore IMA’s full range of medical internships abroad and its healthcare internships abroad across specialties and locations. These international healthcare internships also expose students to health systems and patient needs that differ from those at home, which can deepen the whole-person perspective Georgetown’s essays ask about.

Keep two points in mind. First, Georgetown asks that most clinical hours be in the United States, so pair any experience abroad with steady local patient care. Second, IMA programs have no affiliation with Georgetown and give no admissions advantage there or anywhere else. What they offer is supervised clinical experience and material for real reflection. Keep a short journal of what you did and learned each day; those notes become the specific stories Georgetown’s secondary and interview ask for.

IMA also offers medical school admissions consulting for school list planning, personal statement and secondary essay review, and mock one-on-one interviews.

Final Thoughts and Sources

Final Thoughts About Georgetown University School of Medicine

Georgetown University School of Medicine offers a long history, a clear mission and broad clinical training in the nation’s capital. It is a strong fit if you want to practice care of the whole person, have built real records in clinical work, research and service to underserved people, and can write about them with honesty. It is also one of the most competitive and most expensive schools you can apply to, so plan carefully.

Your next steps: confirm your eligibility, take the MCAT by September 2026, submit AMCAS by November 1, 2026, return the three-essay secondary early, and prepare for one virtual, one-on-one interview. If you want help with any part of the process, IMA’s admissions consultants and clinical internships are here when you need them. Medical school is within reach, and you are part of a community of people working to make the world a better place.

Sources

Facts checked October 28-29, 2026. Class profile figures come from the most recent profile posted on the school’s MD Program page, which does not state its entering-class year. Costs are for academic year 2026-27. Accepted-applicant medians, the 2025 entering class residency and background data, enrollment, start date, offer window, grading, federal research funding, global health participation and AY 2024-2025 aid and debt come from the current AAMC MSAR school profile.

• Georgetown University School of Medicine, Office of Admissions: Guide to Application (2026-2027 application timeline, requirements, procedures, deposit and Choose Your Medical School dates); MD Program page with M.D. Class Profile; MD Admissions FAQ; Early Assurance Program; MD/PhD Program (updated April 2025); Dual Degree Programs; Alumni Testimonials; residency match lists.
• GUSOM Office of Financial Aid: Estimated 2026-2027 Cost of Attendance; Financial Aid FAQ (deadlines for 2026-2027 aid, FAFSA code E00518, CSS Profile code 3466).
• GUSOM medical education pages: Journeys Curriculum; Foundational Phase; Third Year Clerkships, LICs and Lottery; Independent Scholarly Project; Community Service Requirement (AY 2026-27); Longitudinal Academic Tracks; Mind Body Medicine Program.
• GUSOM: Our Mission (mission statement and 2009 diversity statement); History; LCME Accreditation; Leadership; Student Groups and Student Clubs.
• HOYA Clinic home page (hoyaclinic.som.georgetown.edu).
• Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, About page.
• Georgetown Department of Medicine: Division of Cardiology faculty (page updated November 2025); Division of Rheumatology faculty.
• AAMC Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR), Georgetown University School of Medicine school profile, 2026 edition, accessed October 29, 2026: 2025 entering class data (AAMC Data Warehouse, Applicant Matriculant File, as of October 29, 2025); TSF 2025-2026; LCME Part I-B 2024-2025; Graduation Questionnaire 2025; LCME Part I-A FY2024; school-provided admissions, curriculum and campus details.
• AAMC Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR) 2027 public reports: Interview Procedures; Medical School Financial Aid and Indebtedness; Tuition, Fees and Cost of Attendance (tuition and fees $76,603, cost of attendance $114,380, health insurance $4,527, same for all residency categories; labeled AY 2025-2026 in the current school profile).
• George Washington University PA Program: Overview; GW PA Program website; Accreditation and PANCE Pass Rates.
• 2026-2027 secondary prompts: current-cycle compilations from Med School Insiders (2026-2027 section) and the Student Doctor Network 2026-2027 Georgetown thread (prompts posted July 1, 2026), which match word for word. Georgetown does not post its prompts publicly. All example essays are original.
• AAMC, “Making the Most of Your Gap Year,” recommended by Georgetown’s admissions FAQ.