Application Process
The application process is long and involves many steps and medical schools have to sift through a lot of applications to fill a few slots every year. Medical College of Georgia (MCG) got 1,742 applicants in 2005 and accepted into their program 258, that is only a 15% acceptance rate and that means they have a lot of work to do to get those applicants sorted down to the best ones. (Note: MCG is not the only medical school in Georgia, nor is Georgia the only place to look for medical schools, but I will use it throughout these advising pages simply as a representative sample, they are all very similar). To do the sorting, they go through a process that is very impersonal in the beginning, but becomes more and more personal as the process goes along. Below you will find a flow chart of the process that is applicable to almost all medical schools across the country.
