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BYU submitted a nearly 900-page accreditation application to open School of Medicine by fall 2027.

The application heavily focused on Jesus Christ, unique even compared to other faith-based schools.

Nearly 200 people helped build and submit the application.

The deadline was a beast.

If BYU wanted to keep alive its hopes to open the doors for its planned School of Medicine in fall 2027, it had to submit its application for accreditation by Aug. 1.

A team of dozens of experts began in January. In fewer than seven months, they compiled a nearly 900-page data control instrument — the technical term for the application — and sent it off on July 31.

Mission accomplished.

“I think it was impossible, if it weren’t for God,” founding dean Mark Ott told the Deseret News. “The mira

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