Application Timeline
Important deadlines need to be met when applying to the KU School of Medicine for the 2025 application cycle. To meet these deadlines for the MD program, work closely with your premedical advisor and follow this timeline.
If you're interested in applying to the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program, you'll need to invest time in the application process. The following dates are a general guide for applicants; check with the KU School of Medicine for actual deadlines dependent on your start date.
Date |
Event |
---|---|
multiple |
MCAT administered (For example, the 2025 entering class needs |
May |
AMCAS application available online |
June |
AMCAS application submitted online |
+*Aug. 1 |
Last date to submit AMCAS application for EDP |
+*Aug. 15 |
EDP file completion deadline |
mid-September |
EDP interviews |
Oct. 1 |
EDP decision notification |
*Oct.15 |
Last date to submit AMCAS application for regular decision |
October - January |
Regular decision interviews |
*Oct. 15 |
Deadline to submit AMCAS application for MD/PhD Program and completion of MD/PhD application file. |
*Nov. 15 |
Deadline for completion of regular decision application file |
January - February |
MD/PhD interviews |
mid-February |
AMCAS Choose Your Medical School Tool becomes available to accepted applicants. |
March |
Regular decision notification |
April 15 |
Per the AAMC's Application and Acceptance Protocols for Applicants, accepted applicants holding more than three acceptances should narrow their offers to three medical schools and withdraw from all other accepted schools. |
April 30 |
AMCAS Choose Your Medical School "Commit to Enroll" option becomes available to all accepted applicants. Making this selection indicates you have withdrawn your application from consideration at all other medical schools to which you have applied, and you are committing to matriculate at the KU School of Medicine. |
June 23 |
All accepted applicants are required to select the "Commit to Enroll" option by this date. Failure to do so will result in withdrawal of your KU School of Medicine acceptance. |
mid-July |
Mandatory new student orientation |
late July |
Classes begin |
*To meet the AMCAS deadline, your application must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline date. Official transcripts for regular applicants must be received within 14 calendar days of the application deadline or the next business day if the transcript deadline falls on a weekend or holiday. (Regular applicants are applicants applying to MD programs, not to MD-PhD programs or to the Early Decision Program.)
+* The Early Decision Program deadline for the application and all official transcripts is Aug. 1 or the next business day if Aug. 1 falls on a weekend or holiday.