Applicant Planning Guide
For Professional School Entrance in 2009
The following gives you a list of what you should be doing during the one and one half to two year period before you plan to start your professional school program. It is intended as a "to do" list, but many items link to information pertaining to each task that appears elsewhere either within this web site or at sites that we find particularly helpful to our students. Plan early, plan often.
FALL, 2007
- Outline your Personal Statement.
- Generate a list of prospective letter writers for Letters of Recommendation
- Prepare statements for letter writers
- Begin identifying which schools to which you will apply (use MSAR, AADS, etc. available in the Pre-Health Professions Advising Center Resource Area).
- Start planning your budget for the application process.
- Prepare/study for admissions tests.
SPRING, 2008
- Register on-line for admissions tests (MCAT, DAT, OAT, PCAT, GRE).
- Centralized applications are available on-line begining May 1 (check application service policy on sending transcripts)
- Review the instructions for using our Letter of Recommendation Service.
- Contact letter writers. Writers may submit letters between January 3 and July 2, 2007.
- Attend workshops (if you are not on the Pre-Health ListServ, sign up so that you will be notified of upcoming workshops):
- Personal Statement Workshop
- AMCAS Workshop
- Interviewing Techniques
SUMMER, 2008
- Order unofficial transcripts to use when completing centralized applications.
- Order official transcripts from all post-secondary schools attended to be sent directly to the application servie (AMCAS, AADSAS, etc.).
- Order passport-size photos.
- Complete and send secondary applications which may be received as early as July.
- Look into resources for Practicing the Interview.
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