2018 AACOMAS Applicant Pool Profile Summary Report

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application Service (AACOMAS) received 181,960 individual school applications from 20,981 applicants for 7,4671 American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) approved seats in Fall 2018. These numbers include all applicants to the 40 colleges of osteopathic medicine and branch campuses which participated in AACOMAS. The application cycle opened in May 2017 and closed in April 2018, with deadlines varying by College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM). There were 2.87 applicants for each COCA approved seat in the first-year class. The mean number of individual school applications per applicant was 8.70.