MCAT Tutor in New York City

New York City has seven MD schools, and the share of New Yorkers in their classes runs from 11.6% at Columbia to 98.3% at the CUNY School of Medicine (AAMC FACTS, Table A-1). SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn is the largest, with 197 places, 84.3% of them filled by New York residents.

Einstein drew the most applications, 14,035 for 148 places, about 95 per seat; Downstate's ratio was about 38. CUNY's row, 59 applications for 59 places, looks nothing like the others because its students reach the MD through the school's own seven-year BS/MD program, which they enter from high school (AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, CUNY BS/MD overview). Accredited since 2015, CUNY is also the newest of the seven (LCME). Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine is the city's DO school; it takes the MCAT through AACOMAS.

Facts about New York City

Accreditation: LCME directory.

• NYU Grossman School of Medicine reports 8,271 applicants, 821 interviewed and 208 accepted, an acceptance rate of 2.50%, with 106 matriculants for its class of 2027. (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
• NYU Grossman's class of 2027 had a median MCAT of 523 (range 516-527) and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.98, and every student was awarded a full-tuition scholarship. (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
• NYU Grossman reports that 21% of its class of 2024 graduated with medical education debt, averaging $67,752. (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
• NYU Grossman's bulletin gives the median and average MCAT of its most recent incoming class as 523 and 522, and takes MCAT scores from up to three years before matriculation: for fall 2027 entry, January 2024 at the earliest. (NYU Grossman School of Medicine bulletin)
• CUNY School of Medicine's seven-year BS/MD program admits students out of high school: they earn a BS in biomedical science in three years through the Sophie Davis School, then move into the four-year MD without the MCAT as a barrier to entry. (CUNY School of Medicine)
• CUNY's BS/MD applicants must be high school graduates by June 30, 2026, with a cumulative average of at least 85 over the first three years of high school; ACT or SAT scores are optional through spring 2027. (CUNY School of Medicine)
• SUNY Downstate's College of Medicine enters a class of approximately 200 each year; its 2026 entering class came from 78 undergraduate colleges, and the school says out-of-state applicants are accepted. (SUNY Downstate College of Medicine)
• Downstate says the mean MCAT and GPA of its entering class are slightly above the mean of those admitted nationally. (SUNY Downstate College of Medicine)
• For fall 2027 entry, Downstate needs an MCAT taken on or after August 1, 2024 and no later than September 12, 2026, and it reviews the scores from every MCAT an applicant has taken. (SUNY Downstate College of Medicine)
• Downstate's early decision applicants apply only to Downstate by August 1 and hear by October 1; high school seniors can also enter through the Brooklyn College BA/MD program, which guarantees a first-year place at Downstate to students who complete it. (SUNY Downstate College of Medicine)

Sources: LCME, directory of accredited U.S. programs (checked October 29, 2026); AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, 2025-2026 (checked October 29, 2026); NYU Grossman School of Medicine, MD Admissions By the Numbers (checked November 1, 2026); NYU Grossman School of Medicine bulletin, Admissions (checked November 1, 2026); CUNY School of Medicine, BS/MD program overview (checked November 1, 2026); CUNY School of Medicine, BS/MD requirements (checked November 1, 2026); SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Class Profile (checked November 1, 2026); SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, MCAT (checked November 1, 2026); SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Entry Pathways (checked November 1, 2026).

NYU Grossman: a 523 median and no tuition

NYU Grossman publishes its admissions funnel. For the class of 2027 it reports 8,271 applicants, 821 interviews and 208 acceptances, an acceptance rate of 2.50%, and 106 matriculants (NYU by the numbers). That class's median MCAT was 523, in a range of 516 to 527, and its median undergraduate GPA 3.98. The school's bulletin gives the most recent incoming class's median and average as 523 and 522 (NYU bulletin).

Every student in that class was awarded a full-tuition scholarship, and NYU reports that 21% of its class of 2024 graduated with medical education debt, averaging $67,752 (NYU by the numbers). For a New York applicant that makes NYU the clearest case of a school where the MCAT, not cost, is the barrier: the bottom of its range, 516, is above the average New Yorker who started medical school anywhere.

NYU takes MCAT scores from up to three years before matriculation; for fall 2027 entry the oldest it accepts is from January 2024 (NYU bulletin).

SUNY Downstate: Brooklyn's public option

Downstate enters a class of approximately 200 each year. Its 2026 entering class came from 78 undergraduate colleges, and the school says out-of-state applicants are accepted (Downstate class profile). It does not publish an MCAT average; it says the mean MCAT and GPA of its entering class are slightly above the mean of those admitted nationally.

Its MCAT rules are strict on dates. For fall 2027 entry the test must be taken on or after August 1, 2024 and no later than September 12, 2026, and Downstate reviews the scores from every MCAT an applicant has taken (Downstate MCAT policy). Applicants sure of Downstate can apply early decision, to Downstate only, by August 1 and hear by October 1 (Downstate entry pathways).

Downstate also has a route that starts in high school: the Brooklyn College BA/MD program guarantees a first-year place at Downstate to students who complete it.

CUNY School of Medicine: an MD route without the MCAT

CUNY's seven-year BS/MD program admits students out of high school. They earn a BS in biomedical science in three years through the Sophie Davis School, then move into the four-year MD without the MCAT as a barrier to entry (CUNY BS/MD overview). That explains the AAMC row of 59 applications for 59 places.

Applicants must be high school graduates by June 30, 2026, with a cumulative average of at least 85 over their first three years of high school; ACT or SAT scores are optional through spring 2027 (CUNY BS/MD requirements). For a New York City high-school senior it is the one MD route in the city that does not run through the MCAT at all, and the decision comes years before a pre-med would otherwise sit the test.

Planning an MCAT around the New York City schools

Downstate reviews every score an applicant has taken, so a second sitting should be planned to beat the first, not used as a trial run. The windows differ as well: Downstate's starts on August 1, 2024 for fall 2027 entry, NYU's in January 2024, so a pre-med who tested in spring 2024 can still use that score at NYU but not at Downstate.

For students aiming at NYU or the other private schools in Manhattan and the Bronx, we plan from NYU's published range, 516 to 527, rather than from the state averages, because most of the applicants to those five schools come from outside New York.

Medical schools in and around New York City

Total for the seven New York City-area MD schools: 55,796 applications, 875 first-year seats, 64 per seat (AAMC 2025 FACTS, Table A-1, AAMC short names; DO schools apply through AACOMAS, outside AAMC's data).

New York City's DO option: Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York City (founded 2007, private). DO schools also accept the MCAT, so the same New York City prep covers both routes.

Most applications: Einstein (14,035). Largest New York-resident share of a new class: CUNY (98.3%).

Other New York MD schools New York City applicants weigh

Across all 15 of New York's MD schools, 1,989 students started in 2025-26; the New York City schools above account for 44% of those seats (AAMC Table A-1).

Of 3,595 New York applicants in 2025-26 (New York City included), 1,120 (31.2%) started at an MD school in New York, 560 (15.6%) started out of state and 1,915 (53.3%) did not start at any US MD school that year (AAMC Table A-5).

New York pre-meds by the numbers (the pool New York City applicants are in)

New York had 3,595 MD applicants in 2025-26: 1,120 (31.2%) started at a New York school, 560 (15.6%) started out of state and 1,915 (53.3%) did not start anywhere that year (AAMC FACTS, Table A-5). The pool is almost the size it was in 2016-17, 3,621, after a jump to 4,142 in 2021-22, while New Yorkers starting medical school rose from 1,603 to 1,680 (AAMC FACTS, Tables A-3 and A-4).

New Yorkers who started scored 513.3 with a 3.78 GPA; the whole New York pool, 507.1 and 3.64 (AAMC FACTS, Tables A-19 and A-20). Two sections, Chemical and Physical and Biological and Biochemical, share the widest gap at 1.7 points; CARS has the narrowest, 1.3.

MCAT section averages for New York applicants vs. new students

Ten years of New York medical school applicants, as seen from New York City

Source: AAMC 2025 FACTS, Tables A-3 and A-4.

What MCAT score New York City applicants need

On AAMC's pooled acceptance table for 2023-24 to 2025-26, the New York applicant profile (507.1, 3.64) falls in the 3.60-3.79 row at 506-509, where 45.4% were accepted (AAMC FACTS, Table A-23). The New Yorker who started (513.3, 3.78) is in the same row between 510-513 (60%) and 514-517 (66.7%).

That state profile is not the bar at the city's private schools. At Columbia, Weill Cornell, Einstein, Mount Sinai and NYU, New York residents send only 14% to 16.9% of applications (AAMC FACTS, Table A-1), and NYU's own median for its class of 2027 is 523, nearly ten points above the New York starter average (NYU by the numbers).

National AAMC grids (acceptance by MCAT and GPA, six years of averages): MCAT tutoring by city.

How many people in New York City search for MCAT tutoring

New York's metro area sits 27th of 209 on Google Trends for MCAT search interest over five years, with a score of 23 out of 100 (retrieved October 2026). Semrush finds about 10 US searches a month for “best mcat tutor nyc”, against 1,600 for “mcat tutor” (Semrush, October 2026).