How To Apply - Domestic & International

Domestic Applicants

We are pleased that you are interested in the Graduate Training Program in Biomolecular Structure and Design (BMSD Program). The information below should help you to begin the application process.

We encourage you to complete your application before the January 1st deadline. Although late applications will be considered, you would be at a disadvantage because we begin our review of completed applications in early January, and take positive action as soon as an applicant is judged to be highly qualified.

Please complete Graduate School Application online using the WWW Graduate Application. The Online Web Application Fee is $45 (payable only by credit or debit card). Applications without a fee or need-based waiver will not be processed by Graduate Admissions or reviewed by the department. To apply for a need-based waiver, a citizen or Permanent Resident of the US must complete the wavier application form available from the Office of Graduate Admissions. The BMSD Admissions Committee begins reviewing a student's file only after the student's file is complete. A complete file contains:

• A completed online Graduate School application;
• A Statement of Purpose of no more than 300 words explaining your academic and professional objectives;
• A resume;
• At least three official letters of recommendation;
• GRE general aptitude test scores (Verbal, Quantitative, Analytical);
• A GRE subject test in either Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or Physics;
• Official transcripts of courses from all universities attended, sent directly from the school(s) in a sealed, institutional envelope.

Applicants should be certain to take GRE's early enough so that test results will reach us by the application deadline. Exams taken after October may delay the processing of your application. Our institution code is 4854.

International Applicants

We are pleased that you are interested in the Graduate Training Program in Biomolecular Structure and Design (BMSD Program). The information below should help you to begin the application process.

We encourage you to complete your application before the January 1st deadline. Although late applications will be considered, you would be at a disadvantage because we begin our review of completed applications in early January, and take positive action as soon as an applicant is judged to be highly qualified.

Please complete Graduate School Application online using the WWW Graduate Application. The Online Web Application Fee is $45 (payable only by credit or debit card). Applications without a fee or need-based waiver will not be processed by Graduate Admissions or reviewed by the department. To apply for a need-based waiver, a citizen or Permanent Resident of the US must complete the wavier application form available from the Office of Graduate Admissions. The application fee cannot be waived for international applicants.

If you are applying from overseas, you should be aware that those who achieve high scores in our highly competitive admissions process must visit the University of Washington for interviews before a decision will be made to recommend admission into the program. Due to limited funding, we are unable to pay overseas travel expenses. If you are invited to visit, you must pay your own travel expenses to the University of Washington. An invitation to visit does not guarantee an offer of admission.

Complete and fluent mastery of spoken and written English is absolutely essential to success in our program. International students lacking adequate fluency in English have experienced serious delays in student progress, and may have difficulty obtaining funding for the full duration of their study. For this reason, international applicants generally must score better than 50th percentile on the Verbal portion of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), better than 600 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Exam, and 55 or above on the Test of Spoken English (TSE) to be successful. (These language requirements apply to all international applicants except those who consider English their mother tongue.)

Because of extra and time-consuming processing required for international applications, the recommended deadline for receipt of international applications is December 1 each year. Our Admissions Committee does not review applications until the student's file is complete . A complete file contains:

• A completed online Graduate School application
• A Statement of Purpose of not more than 300 words explaining your academic and professional objectives.
• A resume
• At least three official letters of recommendation;
• TOEFL Exam score;
• TSE score;
• GRE general aptitude test scores (Verbal, Quantitative, Analytical);
• A GRE subject test in either Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or Physics;
• A current official transcript of courses, translated into English and sent directly from the university in a sealed envelope.

International students should take TOEFL, GRE, and TSE exams early enough so that test results will reach us by the application deadline. Exams taken after October may delay the processing of your application. Our institution code is 4854.