Cornell University (Weill)

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Research rank Category Name #16 Best Research

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Primary care rank Category Name #58 Best Primary Care

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Medical School Overview

The Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University has an application deadline of October 15. The application fee at Cornell University is $75. Its tuition is full-time: $47,150. The faculty-student ratio at Cornell University is 5.0:1. The Weill Cornell Medical College has 5,296 full- and part-time faculty on staff.

The Weill Cornell Medical College is located in New York City’s “science corridor,” near other health and research institutions including the Sloan-Kettering Institute and The Rockefeller University. Medical school classes emphasize problem-based learning, and early on, students spend class time in doctors’ offices once a week through the Medicine, Patients, and Society course.

Weill Cornell Medical College is affiliated with institutions including New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Hospital for Special Surgery. The school offers funding for students to travel and work abroad after their first year of medical school, and about half of fourth-year students opt for international electives, often in Third World countries. All medical students are guaranteed housing in the school’s Upper East Side of Manhattan location, either in dormitories or apartments.

Notable alumni of Weill Cornell Medical College include Robert Atkins, creator of the Atkins Diet, and Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the cardiac pacemaker.

Admissions

Applications accepted	June 1 (Begins) October 15 (Ends)
Application fee	$75
AMCAS application accepted	Yes
AACOMAS application accepted	No

Academics

Full-time faculty	2,050
Full-time faculty-student ratio	5.0:1

Student Body

Total medical school enrollment	409
Gender distribution

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $47,150
Required fees	$3,615

Residency

Graduates admitted to their first-choice residency program	N/A
Most popular residency and specialty programs (2011 and 2012 classes)
emergency medicine pediatrics internal medicine psychiatry neurology radiology - diagnostic obstetrics and gynecology transitional year orthopaedic surgery internal medicine/family medicine

* Medical School Overview details based on 2012 data