Transcripts can be mailed to:

Admissions Office
Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University 
Room 2M202A, Medical Education Centre
300 Prince Philip Drive
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6

If your institution issues official electronic transcripts, we accept e-transcripts sent in the following manner:

• Sent directly by your Registrar's office.
• Sent through a transcript ordering service (e.g. Parchment, MyCreds).
• Sent by letter mail to our office, Contact Us & FAQs

To submit your application, you need an unofficial transcript (see Official-vs-Unofficial-Definitions), which can be retrieved from your student account at your university.

Official transcripts are only required if you are selected for an interview. Information on submitting your official transcript will be sent with the interview offer. Such transcript must come directly from your institution directly to the Admissions Office.

Yes, transcripts must be submitted for each cycle. The one exception to this is credential evaluations – if your application required a credential evaluation and you did not complete any further schooling at that institution after the credential evaluation was obtained, you may request that your credential evaluation be carried forward from an old application to your current application.

In such cases, you need to request this officially in writing via email to munmed@mun.ca. Applicants who fail to contact the Admissions Office to request that their credential application be carried forward or who do not obtain a new credential evaluation from the issuing agency will be marked as incomplete.

No. We regret that we are unable to return official transcripts once submitted.

No, we will use the one we received by the application deadline.

Yes. All applicants must submit unofficial transcripts from all institutions they attended at the time of application. If you are selected for an interview and are a student of Memorial University, your official transcript will be retrieved internally by the Admissions Office. If you have attended other institutions in addition to Memorial, you will need to request official transcripts from all other institutions you have attended. 

Academic averages are calculated using credit hours per course. Please see the Application Handbook for descriptive details on how to correctly do this within your application. 

Your average is calculated using the grade you received and the number of credit hours or units each course is awarded. This method will give you full credit for courses with a higher than typical number of credit hours. This approach accounts for the variability in courses across institutions and factors in the amount of lecture time spent on the course per week. 

Courses completed in Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, or General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) can be counted IF you transferred them to a university for equivalent credit upon completion. In order to receive credit for these courses, you must submit the original transcript from each program, grades showing on high school transcripts are not sufficient for this perpose. The transcript must be issued by College Board, in the case of AP transcripts and by International Baccalaureate, for IB credits. For GCSE credits, you should contact the exam board(s) that issued your results, or your original school/college. In the UK, there is no single, consolidated "transcript" document; instead, you get a "certified statement of results" from the exam board. 

All courses completed at the post-secondary university level will be counted in the calculation of your overall average, if you have final grades for them. If final grades for summer courses are released after the application deadline, you should note in your application that these courses are pending and they will not be counted without final grades. 

Yes, graduate course are included in the average grade calculations. A graduate degree or program is not required to apply, however, having such is deemed an asset to your application. 

We do not advise that prospective applicant repeat courses. If you do repeat a course, it will be expected that you obtain an "A" average throughout as you have already studied this material before. 

Yes, failed courses are counted in academic calulations. 

To correctly report failed grades in the Yearly Progress Calculator, you need to look up the value of the course at your university. For example, if you failed a course, the number of credit hours you received is 0.0, but the course may be worth 3.0 credit hours. If your grade was 40, you would report 3.0 credit hours x 40, giving 120 as an entry in the Calculator.  Please see the Application Guide for more explanations on reporting failed courses. 

If you need to withdraw from a course after the deadline to drop it without academic penality, a withdrawal will be noted on your transcript and you should explain the circumstances around the withdrawal in the "Additional Information" section of the medical school application. 

All finalized grades appearing on transcripts submitted with your application will be incorporated into the evaluation of your application. If you are completing courses after submitting your application, for example finishing your bachelor's degree, you will need to maintain a competitive average as a condition of acceptance, should you receive an offer. 

Yes. If you completed AP or IB courses and transferred them to a university for equivalent credit, they will be counted toward the credit requirement for a bachelor's degree. In such instances, you will need to provide a copy of the transcript from these insitutions with your application. Please see the Application Handbook for more details. 

You need to fulfill all application requirements to register for medical school lectures. Your degree must be finished and supporting documentation indicating such submitted to the Admissions Office prior to the start of Orientation.

We consider a full course load to be approximately 10 courses/30 credits taken over the fall and spring semesters. Applicants from programs with unique credit values (pharmacy, music) may have more or less than 10 courses and/or 30 credits over these semesters.

We do not require any credits in English; however, our program is taught exclusively in this language. Students will be expected to be able to read, write, and speak fluently in English.

A full course load is not necessary for application to the program, and we appreciate that there are many reasons why applicants may have taken less than a full course load. Medical school is demanding and fast-paced; our committees need to be convinced that you can be successful with such a workload and the best way to illustrate that ability is via full course loads in your bachelor’s degree.  If you complete your degree part-time, you will need to provide context around the reasons for such within your application.

Possibly. If you completed courses at the diploma level that you have transferred to university program for equal credit, they should be included in your Yearly Progress calculations. Diploma courses must be officially transferred to a university by the student for them to be included in your academic calculations; courses that are eligible for transfer but not transferred are not counted. If you complete courses at the diploma level that cannot be transferred to a university institution, do not include them in Yearly Progress calculations.

Degrees that can be completed in less than 4 years via the completion of a prerequisite diploma program first (for example Bachelor of Applied Health in Paramedicine at UPEI) are permitted. Grades in diploma programs will be counted; however, the Interview and Admissions Committee will focus on university grades when reviewing your application.

There is no minimum MCAT score required.

Please see Application Components.

All MCAT writings must be released with your application. Our committees look at all scores with consideration to the number of times you wrote the exam and any improvements with each writing.

The MCAT is one metric used in the holistic review process.

Information provided by MCAT shows that the concepts tested in the four sections: (Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems; Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems; Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behaviour; Critical Analysis and Reasoning) are taught in the courses most applicants take at post-secondary institutions. However, examinees prepare in different ways. Please refer to the AAMC website for information on the exam and suggestions on how to prepare. The Admissions Office does not endorse and cannot provide advice on any third-party MCAT study guides or prep courses. These courses are often expensive and not affordable for most potential applicants; they are not required to do well on the MCAT exam.