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Enrollment Status

• Option 1:
  • You must currently be taking pre-health coursework while enrolled in one of our post-baccalaureate programs��and be on track to complete at least 9 such credit hours by June 1 in the year when you are submitting your application to professional school.
    • If you are taking��online courses, be aware that at least one of these courses must be taken in an in-person format (daytime or evening).
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• Option 2:
  • You must already have completed 18 credit hours of pre-health coursework (in any format) while enrolled in one of our post-baccalaureate programs.​

Recent pre-health coursework:

• During or since the summer term two years prior to submitting your professional school application, you must have completed at least 9 credit hours of pre-health prerequisites or math/science electives. (For instance, those submitting applications to professional school in Summer 2026 must have completed those credit hours during or since Summer 2024.)
  • If you took some of those credits at another institution, at least 3 of those credit hours must have been taken while enrolled in one of our post-baccalaureate programs.

Recent engagement in individual pre-health advising:��

• You must have completed at least one individual pre-health advising session since June 1 of the year prior to submitting your application to professional school. For instance, if you would like to engage in the Application Writing Support program during the 2025-2026 school year, you must have met with us for at least one individual pre-health advising appointment on or after June 1, 2025.

GPA

• Your Cumulative Undergraduate and Science* GPAs both need to be 3.0+ by January 1 in the year when you submit your application to professional school.
• You must be on track to have completed three terms in a row with term GPAs of 3.0+ by May 15 in the year when you submit your application to professional school.
• If your GPA falls below these thresholds, send an email to ceprehealth@colorado.edu to ask if you may qualify for an exception.

Clinical Experience

• You must be on track to score a “2” or above in the Direct Patient Interaction category on our��Self Assessment by June 1 of the year when you submit your application to professional school.

Each of the three required "Get Ready to Apply" workshops will be offered twice: in-person during the fall semester, and Zoom during Winter Break.��

Refer to the Upcoming Events webpage for dates and details.

• Save a personal copy of the��. Be sure to keep it formatted as a Google Sheet.
  Note: The master document is "View Only." Save a copy for your own use, then update��the sharing settings of your copy so that "Anyone with the Link" can edit.
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• The "Assignments & Deadlines for App Writing Support" provides a checklist of videos to watch, tasks to complete, and instructions for submitting your Pre-Application Spreadsheet by the November 1 deadline. Please do not leave this until the last minute; it will take several hours to complete all of the requirements.��
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• We will review your��Pre-Application Spreadsheet to verify that you have completed all required sections by the deadline.

• Over Winter Break, you will complete additional sections of your Pre-Application Spreadsheet, including full drafts of your personal statement and your application activity entries.
• Detailed instructions for completing and submitting these additional sections of your Pre-Application Spreadsheet are posted on the "Assignments & Deadlines for App Writing Support" tab.
• Application Writing Support sessions are offered in three waves in the spring and summer (one session per student per wave). Earlier submissions qualify for more waves.

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Once you have been approved for the Application Writing Support program, you may schedule pre-health advising appointments for application writing support (that is, discussing your written drafts of your personal statement, complete set of activity descriptions, or representative set of ~5 secondary essays).

Logistics to keep in mind:

• Schedule your advising sessions in Buff Portal Advising as you would for a regular pre-health advising appointment, but indicate in the "Reason for Appointment" box that you are seeking application writing support. Indicate which document you would like your advisor to review in advance. If you do not have access to Buff Portal Advising, call our office at 303-492-5148 and select the option for Academic Advising for scheduling assistance.
• Ensure that you keep all of your drafts (or links to your drafts) in your Pre-Application Spreadsheet, not in separate stand-alone documents
• For writing support on your personal statement, be consistent about working with the same pre-health advisor each time.
  • Jessica Talbot provides synchronous feedback during Application Writing Support appointment times.
  • Elisa Cripps provides asynchronous feedback, in writing.
    • For personal statement feedback from Elisa, reserve an advising appointment time for that purpose, but you won’t actually meet at that time. She’ll use that time to review your draft and prepare written feedback for you.
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