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CAMDEN — Cooper Medical Principles of Rowan University has received 2,900 applications for spots in its inaugural rank.
“We actually stopped accepting applications last week,” said Dr. Paul Katz, CMSRU’s founding dean. “All medical schools will allow more students than they can actually take, because people will get multiple acceptances, but the entering arrange will be 50 students. The number of applications we received is about what we expected, and we’re very gleeful to see so much interest.”
Katz said about 35 percent of the applications are from New Jersey.
“If you look at those numbers, we got about 60 percent of all the students who electrified in New Jersey and are applying to medical school,” said Katz.
The perseverance to admission process is multi-tiered, according to Katz.
First, students applied electronically to the form through a central office, entering standard application information. Next, CMSRU — through a screening deal with — will narrow the applicants to a pool of about 325 students who will be asked to question period.
Source: Gloucester County Times - NJ.com