Western University · London
Medical Sciences → BMSc
Admission is comparatively easy. You get in on your Grade 12 average, then compete again on university grades for entry to the actual program.
There is no supplementary application. Admission is decided on your Grade 12 marks.
Getting in is not the same as getting the program. That decision comes from your university marks.
- Supplementary app
- Not required
- Next date
- 18 days left
- Applications open on OUAC (late September)
- Seats
- 1,000
- 1,000 is Medical Sciences Year 1 intake. There are roughly 500 spaces in Year 3 BMSc, that gap is the whole story.
OUAC code
- Medical Sciences
Verified . Confirm against the university's own page before you act.
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Timeline
- 18 days left
Applications open on OUAC (late September)
- 125 days leftCritical
Equal-consideration deadline for full-time undergrad
- No single date
Offers issued in rounds from Nov/Dec 2026 through May 2027
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Year three entry
The real admission happens in Year 3
| Route | Requirement | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Assured admission | Minimum 80% average on the 2000-level courses required for your intended module, no mark below 60%, by end of Fall/Winter of Med Sci 2 | Automatic seat in Year 3 BMSc |
| Competitive pool | Minimum 75% on the 2000-level admission-requirement courses (best 3.0 if 3.5+ required), minimum 60% in each 1000-level required course | Considered for remaining spaces. To date every applicant meeting the conditions has been admitted. |
- Routes into year three
- Route
- Assured admission
- Requirement
- Minimum 80% average on the 2000-level courses required for your intended module, no mark below 60%, by end of Fall/Winter of Med Sci 2
- Outcome
- Automatic seat in Year 3 BMSc
- Route
- Competitive pool
- Requirement
- Minimum 75% on the 2000-level admission-requirement courses (best 3.0 if 3.5+ required), minimum 60% in each 1000-level required course
- Outcome
- Considered for remaining spaces. To date every applicant meeting the conditions has been admitted.
No one is guaranteed a specific Honours Specialization. Assured-admission students get priority placement. Some modules fill entirely with them, and competitive-pool students are not considered at all for those. 75% is the floor to be eligible, not a number that gets you a module.
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Supplementary application
No supplementary application.
No supplementary application. Grades only at the high school stage.
04
Required courses
Six 4U/M courses, co-op excluded
Required
- ENG4U
- MCV4U
- SBI4U
- SCH4U
- Two electives
Recommended
- SPH4U: Western offers first-year physics with no high school prerequisite but strongly recommends it
MCV4U specifically. Med Sci does not accept MHF4U or MDM4U in its place, unlike Western Health Sciences.
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Averages
Western: required course floor
70% in required courses
Western-wide floor. No program-specific cutoff published for ESM.
Western BMSc site
Low 90s
Stated average minimum for the ESM route.
OUInfo
Mid to high 80s
A competitiveness guideline, not a published minimum. Do not quote as a cutoff.
Community-reported
Uniscope
Competitive ~92%; accepted median 95%; lowest on record 90%
Self-reported student submissions, 168 of them. Same upward skew as Reddit.
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Traps
01
Getting into Med Sci is not getting into BMSc
Western states it directly: admission to Medical Sciences is not admission to the BMSc Program. You are a Medical Sciences student in Years 1 and 2 and apply to BMSc entering Year 3. Your Grade 12 average gets you to London. Your first two years of university decide whether you actually do BMSc, and in what.
02
Western makes no automatic alternative offers
If you want to be considered for both Medical Sciences and Health Sciences, list each as a separate choice on OUAC. Same for Kinesiology (EP).
03
A late offer is not a worse offer
Western reviews your application in every round from November to May, using whatever combination of Grade 11 and Grade 12 marks it has. Western states there is no disadvantage to being admitted in the final round. Grade 11 marks matter for early rounds.
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Sources
Official
- schulich.uwo.ca/bmsc: What is Medical Sciences, The right OUAC code, The competitive pool, Admission & Progression
- uwo.ca/sci/advising
- OUInfo ESM
- welcome.uwo.ca
Reported
- Uniscope (self-reported student data)
Verified on