Florida · 7-Year B.S./M.D. Program

At a glance

DegreeMD (USF Health Morsani College of Medicine)

Structure7 years (accelerated)

ApplyAs a high school senior

Open toOpen nationally

Annual cohort70 enter, ~15 per year meet the MCAT benchmark

GPA floor4.0, weighted

Test floorSAT 1500 / ACT 34

MCAT (to keep the seat)Yes, 518 no sub score lower than 125

GPA to keep the seatEnd of year 1: 3.7 USF (and overall) GPA AND 3.7 USF science/math ('BCPM') GPA. End of years 2 and 3: 3.8 USF (and overall) GPA AND 3.8 USF science/math ('BCPM') GPA. The FAQ states directly that dual-enrollment grades count toward the overall GPA and that grade forgiveness does not apply. This is the CONTINUATION bucket (keeping the seat), separate from initial eligibility (4.0 weighted HS GPA) and separate from the MCAT benchmark used for the traditional-MD-equivalent screen.

If you apply outApplying out to other schools forfeits the seat

Gap yearConditional (case by case)

InterviewNot published on official page reviewed

Application deadline11/1 Early Action; 1/1 Standard

InternationalNot eligible

A BS/MD seat is conditional, not a diploma. See what it takes to keep the seat, and how the continuation terms compare across every program.

Cost and aid

Undergraduate cost and medical-school cost are separate, and a combined seat is not automatically cheaper. These are the published figures. Confirm the current year with the program before you rely on a number.

Undergraduate years

Tuition (in-state)USF Florida-resident undergraduate tuition and fees: $211.19 total per credit hour (Fall 2025-Summer 2026 official rate sheet; base tuition $105.07/credit plus state, local, and other per-credit fees). A full-time 15-credit semester is approximately $3,168 in tuition and fees before flat fees.

Tuition (out-of-state)USF non-Florida-resident undergraduate tuition and fees: $611.39 total per credit hour (Fall 2025-Summer 2026 official rate sheet; Florida-resident base of $211.19/credit plus $381.15 out-of-state fee plus $19.05 out-of-state financial-aid fee). A full-time 15-credit semester is approximately $9,171 in tuition and fees before flat fees.

Need-based aidUSF's official Financial Aid office administers standard need-based aid to all undergraduates via FAFSA: Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Florida Student Assistance Grant, and the institutional USF Grant (described as 'a USF-funded grant for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need'). No 7-Year B.S./M.D.-specific need-based aid is published; this is the general USF undergraduate need-based aid system, not a program benefit.

Merit aidNo merit aid specific to the 7-Year B.S./M.D. Program is published. The Judy Genshaft Honors College (which the program requires) awards general Honors merit scholarships open to all Honors students regardless of major: a guaranteed $2,000 in scholarships (paid $600/$600/$800 in installments as students complete Honors community-service, global-experience, and academic requirements) and an invitation-only Genspiration Global Explorers Scholarship of $10,000 for study abroad. USF's general freshman Scholarship Consideration Deadline (automatic merit-scholarship review) is January 15, 2026 for the fall 2026 entering class.

Medical school years

TuitionUSF Morsani College of Medicine MD program tuition and fees, 2026-2027 academic year (per the official Cost of Attendance page): Florida resident $16,847 per semester / $33,694 per year; non-Florida resident $30,250 per semester / $60,500 per year. Page notes these figures use the prior aid year's tuition and fees as an estimate.

AidProgram-specific undergraduate aid bridges into year 4 (MS1): students who have not yet completed their bachelor's degree by the start of medical school remain eligible to receive their standard undergraduate financial aid award during MS1, but 'award amounts do not increase to cover the higher cost of medical school tuition' -- students receive the same award amount as in years 1-3, which the FAQ says reduces (but does not eliminate) medical-school loan borrowing in year one. If all degree requirements are completed by the end of year 3, the student must graduate and loses undergraduate aid eligibility, except that Florida Bright Futures may fund up to one semester of graduate/professional education at undergraduate rates if the bachelor's degree is completed in 7 semesters or less.

Program scholarship

Program scholarshipNo

What the program does not publish (and what to ask)

The official pages are not clear on which phase applies to a GPA floor. Worth asking the program directly before committing.

Sources and verification

Verified May 16, 2026 by Rory Merritt, MD against 8 official sources. Where a program does not publish something, we say so plainly rather than guess. How we verify.

• usf.edu /7 year med
• usf.edu /7 year med faqs
• usf.edu /fast tracking medicine inside usfs
• health.usf.edu /7 year
• usf.edu /undergraduate tuition rates 2025 2
• usf.edu /usf grant
• usf.edu /scholarships
• health.usf.edu /cost of attendance

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You enter this program from high school, and USF reserves you a place at its Morsani College of Medicine from the start. That is real. What is also real, and easy to miss, is how much you have to do over the next two years to keep that place. This is one of the more conditional pathways in the country: a 3.7 to 3.8 GPA every year, a 518 MCAT with no section below 125, a research thesis, set hours of clinical work, and a formal medical-school interview. Whether you are the student deciding to apply or the parent helping, this page lays out what the program requires, what it does not publish, and what the numbers say, so you are working from facts rather than the word guarantee.

How the seven years work

This is a seven-year accelerated program: three years of undergraduate study at USF in the Judy Genshaft Honors College, then four years at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. You do not fill out a separate application to the program. You apply to USF as an incoming freshman, declare biomedical sciences, and meet the entry requirements. Eligible students are identified and contacted by Honors advisors by June 1. The bachelor’s degree is typically conferred after the fourth year, once you are already in medical school.

The decision points come fast. Your first-year hours are checked by June 1 of Year 1. By around July 1 of Year 2 you must have your second-year hours and your MCAT in hand. You apply to Morsani through AMCAS the summer between your second and third years, interview in September of Year 3, and receive a decision around October 1. There is no slow ramp. The benchmarks arrive early and they do not move.

What it takes to keep the seat

The seat is reserved from the start, and it is conditional from the start. You hold a 3.7 overall and 3.7 science/math GPA in Year 1, then a 3.8 in both for Years 2 and 3. There is no grade forgiveness, and the GPAs are not rounded, so a single hard semester can put the track out of reach. Alongside the grades, you complete at least 270 hours of biomedical or health research and write an Honors thesis, log 150 hours of community service and medical observation by the end of Year 2, and sit a formal Morsani interview in Year 3.

Then there is the MCAT. You take it by July 1 at the end of Year 2, and you need at least 518 out of 528 with no section below 125. That is a high bar to clear two years into college, on an accelerated schedule, while carrying a 3.8 and finishing research. The program’s own history reflects how high: of roughly 70 students who enter each year, about a third leave the track and an average of around 15 meet the MCAT benchmark. Read that before you read the word guarantee. The seat is real, but most entrants do not reach the point of claiming it on this timeline.

What gets an application read

Entry is numbers-first: a 4.0 weighted high-school GPA as USF calculates it, a 1500 SAT or 34 ACT, and admission to the Honors College. Those open the door. They do not, by themselves, carry you through the next two years, which is the part that decides whether you reach medical school. So the honest way to read this program is not what gets you in at seventeen, but what you will be able to sustain at nineteen and twenty.

For the Morsani stage in Year 3, you face a real medical-school interview with people who admit physicians for a living. By then your record speaks for itself: the GPA, the MCAT, the research, the hours. What the interview tests is whether the person matches the file, and whether the reasons for choosing medicine hold up under questioning. A committee reserving a medical seat for someone barely past their teens has every reason to look closely. The work is to make the true version of your story clear and easy to believe, not to look more finished than you are.

The off-ramp, and why it matters

One feature here is worth naming plainly, because it changes the math on the decision. USF lets you opt out of the accelerated track during the first two years without burning your future. The program states that opting out “will not negatively impact a student’s chances” of being admitted to Morsani later through the traditional route. Students leave to change majors, study abroad, or simply ease the pace, and they can still apply to medical school the ordinary way afterward.

That candor is unusual, and it is to USF’s credit. It means the early commitment is less of a trap than it looks. If at nineteen you find this is not your decision, or not your pace, you have a door out that does not punish you for using it. For a parent weighing how much pressure a seventeen-year-old is signing up for, that off-ramp is one of the more reassuring facts on this page.

Where this leaves you

This program fits a student who is academically strong enough to hold a 3.8 and clear a 518 MCAT two years into college, who genuinely wants medicine, and who is steady under an accelerated schedule that front-loads research, clinical hours, and a real interview. The reward is finishing in seven years rather than eight, with a seat reserved from the start. The cost is a heavy, early, sustained climb that, by the program’s own numbers, most entrants do not complete on this track.

It is not the right fit for a student who needs room to find their footing in the first two years of college, or whose certainty about medicine is mostly borrowed. The good news is that USF is honest about the off-ramp: leaving the track does not close the door to Morsani later. So the real question, whether you are the student or the parent reading this, is not only whether you can get in. It is whether you can keep going, at this pace, and whether this is your own decision made with open eyes. If it is, the seven-year path is a strong one. If it is not, the program itself gives you an honest way to step off.