You’ll find a great deal of information about the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine M.D. program on this website. Among the topics covered:

• Application Process
• Prerequisites and Requirements
• M.D. Curriculum
• Our Campus
• Student Life
• Diversity

This is not a service we provide. Please speak with your current institution’s pre-med or pre-health advising office for feedback on your application and advice to make it more competitive. If you do not have an adviser, please visit www.naahp.org for help finding an adviser to assist you with your application.

Yes, but we encourage prospective applicants to take advanced courses in related areas, if possible.

Please review the detailed information on prerequisites and requirements on our website.

Note: The Admissions Committee will accept a three-credit biochemistry course.

If you still have questions after reviewing the requirements, you may send an e-mail to somadmiss@jhmi.edu. E-mails should include the words “course requirements” in the subject line.

The MCAT must be taken within 4 years of entry term. For students entering in Fall 2026, the oldest acceptable MCAT is October 1, 2022. The MCAT must be completed by September 30, 2025 for all applicants applying for Fall 2026.

We require a committee letter, or, if the college/university you attended does not have a committee/adviser, three individual letters are required: two letters from faculty members in science departments who taught you and one letter from a non-science faculty member who has taught you.

In addition to the letters, applicants with advanced degrees or significant postgraduate work experience of one year or more are required to send recommendations from each component of their education and major work experience.

Once a letter of recommendation packet or evaluation from a premedical committee is received, or the individual letter requirement of two science faculty letters and one non-science faculty letter is met, your application will be considered complete and sent to our committee for review.

In addition to those letters required for application to the M.D. program, a minimum of two additional letters of recommendation are required for all M.D./Ph.D. applicants (a total of five letters). These letters are typically from faculty with whom the applicant has done research.

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine participates in the AMCAS Letter of Recommendation Service. Applicants are required to send their letters through AMCAS. Please DO NOT send any letters of recommendation to the Office of Admissions, as they will not be accepted.

Read the AMCAS Letter Service FAQs.

• Two letters of recommendation from science faculty
• One letter from non-science faculty

Additional letters may be sent; however, your application will not be considered complete until all letters have been received in the AMCAS letter of recommendation service repository. Furthermore, additional letters do not give you an advantage over the required three letters. Nor can we guarantee that we will evaluate more than the required number of letters.

We receive a large number of applications every year, and each application is personally reviewed by the Committee on Admissions. Given the sheer volume of work that presents, we have standardized our application procedure to be both comprehensive and fair. Therefore, we cannot accept any updates or additional information. Any extraneous materials received will be destroyed. The only information that will be reviewed to determine your status for an interview is:

1. Your verified AMCAS Primary Application
2. Your JHU SOM Supplemental Application (also known as the secondary application)
3. Your required letters of recommendation
4. Official MCAT scores

If there was an error on your application or you need any changes made, please contact the AAMC at 202-828-0600. The JHUSOM Office of Admissions does not accept updates to your AMCAS application or for the secondary application.

The link to our online secondary application is sent to verified AMCAS applicants once a week. Please check your junk or spam folders to make sure that this e-mail was not filtered to your spam. This process is automated, so receipt of this email regarding your secondary application is how you confirm that we have received your AMCAS primary application.

If you have a question about the secondary application not covered in our website, please call the Office of Admissions at 410-955-3182 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET so we can assist you.

We currently accept credit card or e-check payments for $120 (USD). Please DO NOT send cash.

Credit card and e-check payments must be made online via our Admissions System. Please note: you will receive a link to the Admissions System once you have been verified. Students who are granted fee waivers by the AMCAS Fee Assistance Program will be given fee waivers for the Johns Hopkins secondary application. We will not waive the fee for any other requests.

Please allow four to six weeks processing time for the letters of recommendation to be uploaded into our admissions system. If you are retaking the MCAT, your application will not be considered complete until the official scores have been received.

Secondary applications must be received by October 22 in order for your application to be sent to our committee for review. Letters uploaded after the deadline will not be reviewed. Letters uploaded after the deadline will not be reviewed. Please note that if you indicate that you are retaking the MCAT, your application is not considered complete until we have receive the new MCAT score.

• Applications are evaluated from mid-August through February
• Interviews are conducted from early September through late January
• Offers of admissions are extended in mid-March

We interview applicants for admission on Thursdays and Fridays from early September to late February each year. If invited for an interview, you will receive an email notification directly from The Office of Admissions. Interviews are conducted virtually via Zoom.

April 30 is the national reply date. You may hold multiple offers of admission up to April 30, and then you must choose one medical school. However, please note that you are able to remain on multiple wait lists after May 15.

No. Due to space constraints, we do not offer admission to transfer students.

Johns Hopkins does not participate in the AAMC Early Decision Program.

Admitted students may request to defer their matriculation by April 15. The Deferral Committee will consider requests individually and will typically grant deferrals for research, academic programs (graduate studies, scholarship) or service programs. Deferrals are usually allowed for one or two years.