Bridge Program

Admission Criteria

• Apply Online via AMCAS

Secondary Application

• Competitive applicants from the pool of preliminary applications received from AMCAS will be invited to submit a secondary (formal) application to the Florida State University College of Medicine.
• Applicants are invited to complete a secondary application by e-mail.
• When the secondary application is received, a confirming e-mail response to the applicant will acknowledge receipt.
• The deadline to submit a secondary application is December 31st (visit Timelines for additional deadlines).
• There is no fee to complete a secondary application.
• All components of the secondary application must be completed by the established deadline.
   

Supplemental Materials

• The deadline to submit all Secondary Materials is December 31st (visit Timelines for additional deadlines).
• The Secondary (formal) Application consists of three major components:

Part I Online Application
The secondary or "formal" application to the FSU COM will be completed and submitted online. Applicants are advised to carefully review the instructions for completion before beginning the secondary application. There is no application fee.

Part II Letters of Recommendation
We require at least three and no more than five letters of recommendation; preferably including two letters from science faculty who have taught you, and one letter from any other non-science faculty member who has taught you. If your school or college provides a Committee Letter of recommendation, you may include this; however in addition, our Admissions Committee prefers to see individual letters of reference from the faculty member who taught you.

• Committee Letter
  
  OR
   
• At least three and no more than five letters of recommendation

Part III Photo

• Photos should be sent via e-mail as a requested part of your secondary application in AMCAS.
• Photos are shared with our Admissions Committee to aid them in remembering each applicant.
• Send the e-mail to and with the photo attached, saved as your AMCAS ID number (so that we are sure to match up the photo with the correct name in AMCAS).
  o A passport style and size photo is requested.
  o Do not include other people in your photo.

Letters of Recommendation

Committee Letters and individual letters may be sent by any of the following:

• VirtualEvals
• Interfolio
• U.S. Postal Service to:
  FSU College of Medicine
  Admissions Office
  1115 West Call Street
  Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4300

Additional Transcripts and MCAT scores

Applicants are responsible for submitting official transcripts from colleges and universities attended where coursework has been completed after their initial submission of the AMCAS application to the FSU College of Medicine Admissions Office.

All components of the Secondary Application must be complete and supporting documents must be received by December 31 in the College of Medicine Admissions Office in order for the applicant will be considered for an interview.

The Florida State University adheres to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) in prohibiting discrimination against any qualified person with a disability. While the Florida State University College of Medicine endorses the spirit and intent of these statutes, it also acknowledges that certain minimum technical standards must be present in candidates for admission to and graduation from medical school. Therefore, the College of Medicine has established technical standards for admission to and graduation from the MD program.

Pre-requisite Courses

* Four credit hours of biochemistry including one credit hour of biochemistry laboratory is preferred but not required.

Bridge Admission Process (Post-Baccalaureate Program)

This post-baccalaureate program is designed to expand the pool of successful medical school applicants from medically underrepresented, rural and inner-city communities.

Students will be selected for the bridge program from the regular FSU College of Medicine admissions cycle. Students from medically underrepresented, rural and inner-city populations who do not gain direct admission to the medical school may be invited to participate in the bridge program. This three-semester experience will allow them to demonstrate growth and improvement in both academic and health-care settings. Candidates selected for this program will embody the characteristics of the physician-healer and have a high likelihood of practicing primary care medicine with under-served or minority populations in rural or inner-city locations.

Students who complete the bridge program with a grade of B or better in all courses and otherwise fulfill the program requirements will be admitted to the College of Medicine.

Bridge Program Timeline

Online Status Checklist

Check your application status using the online admissions status page to determine whether all documents have been received by the Admissions Office.

Frequently Asked Questions