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Characteristics of the 2013 Entering Class
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The following report is a summary of the sixty one members of the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s 2013 entering class of PhD students. They were selected from a total of 597 applicants.
Undergraduate Schools
The incoming students completed their undergraduate studies at the following schools. There is one incoming student from each school unless otherwise noted by a number afterwards.
- Beijing University
- Brown University
- Canisius College
- Capital Normal University
- Cornell University- NYS Statutory Colleges
- Creighton University
- CUNY Lehman College
- Duquesne University
- Earlham College
- Fudan University
- Hamilton College (2)
- Heritage Institute of Technology
- Hofstra University
- Lehigh University
- Mahidol University
- Maryville University
- Misr International University
- Nankai University (2)
- ORT Braude College
- Oxford University
- Peking University Health Science Center
- Queens College
- Rochester Institute of Technology (5)
- Salem College
- Saint Lawrence University
- Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- Sharif University of Technology
- Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
- Stonehill College
- SUNY Brockport (3)
- SUNY Buffalo
- SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
- Syracuse University
- Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- University of California- Los Angeles
- University of Massachusetts- Amherst
- University of Massachusetts- Boston
- University of North Texas
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Puerto Rico (2)
- University of Rochester (5)
- University of Tokyo
- University of Wyoming
- Ursinus College
- Whitworth College
- Xiamen University
- Zhejiang University
Undergraduate Majors
- Applied Statistics - 1
- Biochemistry - 1
- Biochemistry & Biotechnology - 1
- Biochemistry & Chemistry - 1
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - 2
- Biological Sciences - 6
- Biology - 14
- Biomedical Science/Biotechnology - 2
- Biomedical Sciences - 1
- Biotechnology - 3
- Biotechnology & Engineering - 1
- Chemistry - 3
- Environmental Science - 1
- Mathematics & Statistics - 1
- Medical Informatics - 1
- Medical Mathematics - 1
- Medical Technology - 1
- Medicine - 2
- Microbiology - 1
- Microbiology/Spanish - 1
- Molecular Genetics - 1
- Neuroscience - 1
- Neuroscience, Psychology - 1
- Pharmaceutical Sciences - 1
- Physics - 2
- Political Science - 1
- Public Administration - 1
- Psychology - 1
- Statistics - 1
Undergraduate GPA
Average GPA - 3.51
Domestic Students - State Residence
- Arizona - 1
- California - 2
- Connecticut - 1
- Massachusetts - 1
- New Jersey - 1
- New York - 25
- Ohio - 1
- Pennsylvania - 3
- Puerto Rico - 2
- Tennessee - 1
- Texas - 1
- Vermont - 1
- Washington - 1
- Wyoming - 1
International Students - Country of Origin
- China - 11
- Egypt - 1
- India - 1
- Iran - 1
- Israel - 1
- Mexico - 1
- Nepal - 1
- Spain - 1
- Thailand - 1
Average GRE Scores
- Verbal - 73%
- Quantitative - 71%
- Analytical - 44%
Average TOEFL
Fourteen of the nineteen international students reported scores.
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Internet Based
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# of Students
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105
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14
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Additional Degrees
Twenty one students in the 2013 incoming class hold Master’s degrees.
M.D./Ph.D.
Six entering PhD students are enrolled in the MD/PhD program.
Average MCAT Scores
Below are the average MCAT scores for the six MD/PhD students.
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Verbal
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Phy Sci
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Essay
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Bio Sci
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Total
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11
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11
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M – 1
N – 1
O – 2
R – 2
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11
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33
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Summer Scholars
3 incoming students completed the University of Rochester’s Summer Scholars program.
Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP Program) Students
1 incoming student completed the University of Rochester’s PREP program.
Average Age
The sixty one incoming students have an average age of 26 years with a range of 22 – 43 years.
Ethnicity
The following summarizes how the forty two US Citizens and Permanent Residents in the incoming 2013 class identify their own ethnicity:
- Asian - 4
- Black or African American - 2
- Hispanic - 2
- Mixed - 1
- White - 30
- N/A (Did not respond) - 3
Male/Female Ratio
According to the students’ self-reported information the male/female ratio is the following:
- Female – 34 incoming students
- Male – 27 incoming students
Student Program Selection
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Program Name
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# Of Students
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| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
6 |
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Biophysics, Structural & Computational Biology
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6
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Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
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5
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Epidemiology
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3
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Genetics, Genomics & Development
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8
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Health Services Research and Policy
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4
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Immunology, Microbiology & Virology
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11
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Neuroscience
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4
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Pathways of Human Disease
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6
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Statistics
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2
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Toxicology
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4
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Translational Biomedical Science
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2
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