Hi,
This is the discussion thread for the applicants to the Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program/CUNY School of Medicine (7-year BS/MD) for Fall 2024 admissions. Please feel free to post your questions about the application and interview process here.
Thanks!
Hi, had a question about applicant preferences for the Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program/CUNY School of Medicine BS/MD Program.
Do they have any preferences for applicants such as in-state or underrepresented in medicine?
Hi,
Most of the students at Sophie Davis come from the 5 boroughs of NYC, upstate New York, and Long Island. However, there are a few out-of-state students who were accepted. The class that started this September has students from Florida and Arizona.
One of the missions of Sophie Davis is to increase the number of students who come from under-represented minorities in medicine. The program makes a strong effort to recruit students who come from Hispanic/African American/Native American backgrounds. With that being said, the program has many students who are Asian, South Asian, and Caucasian.
While your background plays some role in the application process, Sophie Davis places a strong emphasis on your intent to become a physician and what you have done to demonstrate that interest. The three essays that applicants are asked to write address these issues. As such, the essays are read very thoroughly and play a strong role in determining who gets interviewed. In fact, a good portion of the interview is about faculty asking specific questions related to what was written in the essays.
Hope this helps!
Could you please your stats/extracurriculars so I can see what someone that was accepted looks like? Also, could you please give some tips for the essays?
Thank you!
Went to a highly competitive public high school on Long Island
GPA (uw): 3.95 out of 4.00
GPA (weighted): 4.12
SAT Verbal: 750 Math: 760
8 AP courses over 4 years with 4s and a couple of 5s
A few of my extracurriculars:
(1) Student Speaker at the Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University
(2) Invited Participant at the Harvard Science Research Conference
(3) Waksman Student Research Scholar at Rutgers University
(4) Summer Research Student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
(5) Over 600 hours of volunteer work over 3 years (including hospital volunteering)
(6) Multiple Gold Key Awards in poetry from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards over 4 years
(7) National Runner-up, The New York Times Student Podcast Competition
(8) Honorable Mention, NPR Student Podcast Contest
(9) 1st degree Black Belt in karate. Currently teaching younger students.
(10) NYSSMA Piano up to Level VI
Essays need to be personal and demonstrate what you learned from your extracurricular activities and how they helped you decide that medicine is the correct career for you. I would talk about a specific event as opposed to your experience in general. During the interview, you will receive a lot of questions that come from your experiences described in the essay.
Hi! Have they opened up the applications yet for SD 2024? Everytime I press the link under “Apply Now”, it says “2023-2024 program application will be available by end of September,” but I can’t find it. Does anyone know if it’s been released or maybe posted somewhere else? Thank you!
I don’t think that the application has been opened yet. It should be opening soon hopefully.
Hi,
The Sophie Davis Application is now open. Go to the CUNY School of Medicine website (http://www.cunymed.org). Go to the “Admissions & Aid” tab at the top and then go down and click on “Apply Now.” It will take you to this application page: https://redcap.ccny.cuny.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=MF4PHTDY9C
Good luck!