The latest updates from the MD Admissions team.
2024/2025 Application Cycle Open
By Admissions on Jun 27, 2024 The 2024/2025 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. Additionally, while we prefer communicating with applicants through the portal, 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.
- UBC Transcripts: UBC students must submit UBC transcripts. Please follow the steps listed on the Student Services website to order your transcripts and send them to our office. Please check the Transcript Requirements section of the Admission Requirements page to learn more about submitting transcripts.
- UBC students who are using AP/IB etc. exam results to satisfy the English requirement: UBC students must submit an AP/IB/A Level/Cambridge Pre-U/CAPE transcript in order to use these exam results toward the English requirement. There is no longer an option for the Admissions Office to access these results via your student record. Information about submitting these transcripts can be found under the AP, IB and Other Exam Results section of the Admission Requirements
- Pass/fail credits taken in Winter 2019/2020 Term 2 (Jan – April 2020 or equivalent term): Pass/fail credits taken in this term will no longer count toward the 90-credit minimum requirement. As before, credits with grades from this term will count toward the 90-credit minimum requirement, and grades from this term will continue to be excluded from the OGPA and AGPA.
- MCAT validity period: MCAT exams taken from April 2015 – September 14, 2024 will be accepted this application cycle provided they are released by you and received by UBC MD Admissions by October 15, 2024 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Please note that the MCAT score release date for the September 13 and 14, 2024 sittings of the MCAT is October 15, 2024. 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 int 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.
Offers 2024 – Round 7 Offers Sent
By Admissions on
We have sent the seventh round of offers today; congratulations to everyone who received an offer! The deadline for this round is Wednesday, July 3rd at 12:00 p.m. (noon) PDT.
Offers 2024 – Round 6 Offers Sent
By Admissions on Jun 21, 2024
We have sent the sixth round of offers today; congratulations to everyone who received an offer! The deadline for this round is Tuesday, June 25 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) PDT.
Offers 2024 – Round 5 Offers Sent
By Admissions on Jun 18, 2024
We sent the fifth round of offers today; congratulations to everyone who received an offer! The deadline for this round is Friday, June 21 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) PDT.
Offers 2024 – Round 4 Offers Sent
By Admissions on Jun 11, 2024
We sent the fourth round of offers today; congratulations to everyone who received an offer! The deadline for this round is Monday, June 17 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) PDT, and we will send the next round sometime after this deadline.