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Completing Applications

OVERVIEW

You may wish to start your serious planning about two years before you expect to enter medical school. Be aware of the deadlines for the schools to which you plan to apply; apply on time -- to apply late is to place yourself at a significant disadvantage.

You will be asked to:

List courses taken and grades received
Submit transcripts from all your college-level work
Send your MCAT scores to the schools to which you are applying
Indicate your non-academic activities
Prepare a personal statement detailing your interests in a career in medicine and persuading the admissions committee that you are someone who would be an excellent health professional.

Joey Meadows

Old Dominion University

Doctor of Physical Therapy Program

If after reviewing your complete application and letters of evaluation and the admissions committee agrees that you have the potential to be a successful medical professional, they may invite you for a personal interview at the school (at your expense).

PREPARATION HINTS

Getting Into Medical School (Tips from AAMC site) - How should I prepare? How do I choose? How do I apply? When should I be ready? What do schools look for? Is it as tough as they say?

APPLICATION AND ADMISSION TIMELINE > (AAMC site) The admissions requirements for most health professional schools are usually stated in the professional school catalogs and on their web sites.

TIPS:

Filling Out Applications or Everything to Remember not to Forget

(downloadable pdf)

What if you are not accepted anywhere that you apply?

Give serious thought while you're at CNU to what you might do if you are not accepted to medical school. Consider alternatives as options, not as second choices. You may even be asked questions about this during interviews, to see if you are being thoughtful and realistic about your options in the health care field.

If you choose to reapply to medical school after not being accepted, talk with the Health Profession Advisory Committee and contact medical school admissions offices to find out what you might do to strengthen your application. They will generally be pretty straight with you if there is some deficiency, such as low MCAT scores, a weak personal statement, etc., that you can do something about. Merely resubmitting the same unsuccessful application the following year is guaranteed to be unsuccessful again. Stay in touch with the faculty members who are writing your letters of evaluation so that they can update their letters when you reapply.