Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and possess a minimum of a high school diploma (or GED equivalency) with a minimum GPA of 2.0 ("C" average). In addition, all applicants must meet the college-level prerequisite in mathematics (college-level algebra and/or pre-calculus) and college-level anatomy and physiology, one full-semester each, with a minimum of a "C" grade in each course. A lab section for anatomy and physiology is strongly recommended. Applicants must be US citizens or legal residents. International candidates with student visas are not eligible to apply. Transfer of credits is not currently available.
- All applicants must submit the required application form, a nonrefundable application fee of $50, and official school transcripts by March 1 to be eligible for selection for the following September. Applicants who have earned a bachelor degree, from an accredited institution, within the past six years are required to submit high school transcripts. No applications will be accepted after deadline has passed.
- Qualified applicants will be scheduled to take the entrance examination, which is given in mid-March, once per year. The Entrance Examination consists of four major components:
- English skills: this section includes verbal analogies, synonyms, vocabulary and spelling
- Health Science knowledge: this section includes college-level anatomy and physiology, basic biology, cell biology, basic physics, etc.
- Mathematics: section includes arithmetic functions, basic college algebra, fractions, decimals, percentages, averages, exponential functions, logarithmic functions, metric system, basic geometry, areas, perimeter, similar triangles, etc.
- Essay writing: Student is required to write essay on an assigned topic. Essay will not count towards entrance exam score but will be evaluated during first interview.
- A maximum of 40 applicants from among the top entrance exam scorers will be scheduled for the first round of interviews with the admissions committee. Those applicants will have achieved a minimum of 75 percent overall average and a minimum average of 75 percent on the mathematics section of the exam.
- A maximum of 15 candidates from the first round of interviews will be invited back to a second round of interviews with the program director, clinical instructor, and technical director of the Radiation Oncology Department.
- Applicants will be selected for admission based on admission examination score, interviews with admission committee and Program Director, and a review of official school transcripts, application, and personal statement.
Applications for admission are accepted from October through March 1 of each year. Applicants may take the entrance exam only once per year. The entrance examination is administered in mid-March of each year.
In addition to selecting the members of the new class, the admission committee will select two alternates. Should any candidate offered a seat in the next year's class decline such offer, the first alternate may be offered a place, at the discretion of program director. Candidates designated as alternates will have to go through the admission process the following year if they are not offered a seat on the year they were designated alternates.
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center School of Radiation Therapy is an equal opportunity organization. Federal, New York State, and New York City laws prohibit discrimination against applicants on the basis of age, sex, religion, race, non job-related disability, marital status, national origin or veteran's status.
