Palo Alto, CA
🩺 School Overview
Tuition (In State): $64,868
Tuition (Out of State): $64,868
Accreditation Status: Full
Acceptance Rate: N/A
Total Enrollment: 116
Degrees: MD
Founding Year: 1908
Accreditation Year: 1942
Website: https://med.stanford.edu
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📄 Application Information
Applications Received: N/A
Interviews Granted: N/A
Admitted: N/A
Average MCAT: 519
Average GPA: 3.72
Male: N/A
Female: N/A
Underrepresented:N/A
Interview Feedback Summary
Overall, applicants ranked the school in the top 11% of interviews, indicating it is highly regarded. They found the interview mixed with a moderate stress level, and felt they did okay.
School Review Summary
Overall, students rated the program a 7.3 out of 10 for satisfaction. The student body is described as highly cooperative. The environment is considered supportive for underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ+ students, married students, students with disabilities, non-traditional students. Faculty members are seen as reasonably approachable.
5 Most Common Secondary Essay Questions for Stanford
- 1. Academic and Research Experiences – Are there any current or pending disputes concerning your academic status? If yes, please explain.
- 2. Community, Diversity, and Equity – Was your enrollment status ever interrupted during your undergraduate or graduate program, not including summer term (e.g. medical, personal, or academic reasons, military service, other)? If yes,...
- 3. Motivation and Fit – Please describe your motivation for this practice scenario. Why do you feel you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have...
- 4. Career Goals and Future Aspirations – How will you take advantage of the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals?
- 5. Other – Describe in a short paragraph your educational and family background. (For example) I grew up in New York City, as the 3rd child of a supermarket cashier and a high school principal. I attended Mann...
About the School
Stanford has a tradition of recruiting students who have passionate interests and vast creativity. It is our mission to develop and direct our students' skills and passion so they can become outstanding clinicians who improve the health of the world's people through research, innovation, and leadership. We are committed to ensuring that each graduate has fully explored his/her potential as a student and a scholar. To this end, key goals of the curriculum are the melding of 21st century laboratory and medical sciences, and helping each student build in-depth expertise in an area of personal, scholarly interest. Following an intensive process to delineate the core knowledge every medical student requires, an exciting medical curriculum has been developed to meet these goals. The expansion of the information and learning environment at Stanford supports this curriculum as part of the transforming role of technology and information resources in academic medicine.
Curriculum
The Stanford MD curriculum integrates basic science and clinical experience with in-depth study and independent research throughout the years of medical school. The hallmark of the new curriculum is the Scholarly Concentration, a curriculum component similar to a major, that is designed to promote integration of biomedical science, clinical medicine, and applied investigation while validating each student's reasons for choosing medical school (i.e., scientific discovery, patient advocacy, clinical leadership, community service). Although this central element is new, it is only one of many revised curricular elements. The new curriculum also incorporates new defined learning blocks, each of which is designed to integrate basic and sciences from the beginning through to the end of the medical school years, improves course sequencing, increases time spent in direct patient-oriented learning, and ensures in-depth coverage of important, cross-disciplinary clinical elements (cultural competence, ethics, substance abuse, geriatrics, death and dying, etc.).
Facilities
The Farm, as the Stanford campus is commonly known, consists of 8,800-acres of lush lawns and gardens, red-tiled roofs, and beautiful views of mountains and tree-covered slopes. Although it is surrounded by Silicon Valley, the university enjoys a village ambiance all its own. Bicycles are a common mode of transportation and are often preferred for getting to class. The temperate climate encourages an active campus lifestyle that is comparatively informal; casual dress is typical. More than two dozen tennis courts, four swimming pools, racquetball and squash courts, stables for horseback riding, weight training and exercise facilities, and a golf course offer recreational respite from the rigors of academic life. Many formally and informally organized intramural teams engage in competitive sports, and season tickets for such varsity sports as football and basketball are available to students at reasonable cost.
SDN Insights
Our analysis of Stanford:
Student Loan Burden: $582,853
A student taking student loans for all 4 years of medical school at Stanford, including tuition, fees, locally adjusted cost of living expenses, incidentals, and interest, can expect to have total student loans of $582,853. Estimate repayment with the SDN School Loan Repayment Calculator.
Cost of Living: Highest 88% Nationally
The cost of living at Stanford is among the top 88% of all medical schools. Take this into consideration when considering loan burden.
Environment: Urban
There is currently insufficient information to assess the neighborhood around Stanford.
School Address: 1265 Welch Road, Suite 100, Palo Alto, CA 94305
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