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2025/2026 Application Cycle Open

By Admissions on Jun 27, 2025

The 2025/2026 application is open! Please take note of these important changes and announcements:

• A new Applicant Guide has been posted! This guide contains step by step instructions for opening, providing information correctly, and submitting your application. It is a great resource and you should use it extensively as you work on your application to the UBC MD program. Please also use it as your first resource when you have a question. We have tried to anticipate most questions applicants have and have written detailed instructions in this guide. We hope you find it informative!
• Communication: Once you have created an applicant profile, if you need to ask the MD Admissions Office a question, please communicate through the applicant portal inside the Online Application System (OAS). This helps us ensure we keep track of our conversations with you and that all of our communications are in once central place. However, if you do wish to speak with someone about your questions, you may call the MD Admissions Office on Tuesdays from 9:00 AM-4:00 PM Pacific Time. Our phone number is listed on the Contact and Resources page of our website.
• Can’t afford the application fee? Please contact our office at admissions.md@ubc.ca for more information and support. Or, once you have created an applicant profile in OAS, please correspond with us through OAS.
• MCAT validity period: MCAT exams taken from April 2015 – September 13, 2025 will be accepted this application cycle provided they are released by you and received by UBC MD Admissions by October 15, 2025 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Please note that the MCAT score release date for the September 13, 2025 sitting of the MCAT is October 14, 2025. Therefore, if you are planning to use the scores from those exams to meet our MCAT eligibility criteria you are taking the risk that these scores may not be received by the deadline. For peace of mind, we recommend that you write one of the earlier exams. For more information on the MCAT, please see the MCAT section of the Admission Requirements. 
• Transcript Deadlines: It is your responsibility to ensure that all transcripts are received by the appropriate deadline (see Applicant Guide and Documentation Checklist). Failure to do so may render your application ineligible. For confirmation of receipt of your transcript(s), please refer to the Application Status Page of the online application system. We can only acknowledge transcripts on your “Application Status” tab after you have created an application account and entered the institution in the “Transcripts” section.

  Please order your transcripts as early as possible, and well in advance of the application deadline. Please be aware that processing, sending and mailing delays from transcript institutions are common. UBC cannot take responsibility or make allowances for administrative delays on the part of other institutions, or mailing delays on the part of federal or private postal services.

  To ensure your transcripts are received on time, we recommend that you order all domestic transcripts at least one month in advance of the application deadline; more for international documents. International schools and the College Board (the Advanced Placement (AP) organization) can take quite a long time (even months) to process and send transcripts, and Canadian institutions may take a long time as well. Please account for World Evaluation Services (WES) or International Credential Evaluation Services (ICES) evaluation processing time as well, if you are required to submit these evaluations (see Applicant Guide and Documentation Checklist). You can start sending in transcripts as soon as the application opens, although we can only acknowledge these transcripts on your “Application Status” tab after you have created an application account and entered the institution in the “Transcripts” section.

• Want to connect with an admissions team member? While we don’t provide 1:1 advising, we do have many information sessions planned throughout the summer. These are typically small group information sessions and you can bring your questions. To register, please visit the Information Sessions page of our website.