While your entire undergraduate experience will support your application to medical school or other health professional school, the process of applying will begin about two years before you plan to matriculate.
Two years prior to matriculation:
Fall
- Attend the required junior/senior pre-med meeting
- Submit Candidate Information Form (CIF) to preprofessional advisor
- Review pre-health checklist and timeline (PDF)
- Check registration and exam dates for any admissions test needed (MCAT etc.)
- Compile list of schools and check courses needed to meet admissions requirements
- Meet with preprofessional advisor and a member of HPAC to discuss application
- Identify letter writers
January
- Begin preparation in earnest for the MCAT
- Ask letter writers for support
- Begin work on personal essays and compile activity list in the proper format
February and March
- Register for the MCAT
- Continue to refine essays and activity list with preprofessional advisor
- Research medical schools regarding specific requirements and mission fit
April and May
- Take the MCAT
- Turn in completed application materials to preprofessional advisor
June
- Submit applications
- Follow up with letter writers to confirm that letters have been submitted
- Begin prewriting secondaries
One year prior to matriculation:
July
- Retake the MCAT (if needed)
- Early decision candidates submit applications
- Continue writing secondaries
September-December
- Work on secondary applications
- Interview at institutions (schedule mock interview with preprofessional advisor)
- Touch base regularly with preprofessional advisor about status of application and interviews
January-February
- Submit most recent transcripts to schools and provide updates on other parts of application (publications, additional clinical hours, etc.)
- Interview at institutions