What are the specific admissions criteria for the NYU MSTP? How are they different from the regular application to graduate or medical school?
We are looking for candidates with intense curiosity, self-discipline, and compassion. Applicants should show promise for the requirements of all physician-scientists: intellectual rigor and intuitive insight, intelligence, preparedness, motivation, aptitude, and experience are all taken into account. There is no age limit to apply, although the majority of first-year students are young college graduates. We look for excellence in course work at the college level. The letters of recommendation from your research mentors are very important because they reflect your potential and capabilities as judged by college teachers, instructors, premedical committees or other similar college bodies. The strength of our recent candidates has been such that in the last few years only about 10 percent of all applicants have been invited to visit for interviews.
