Preparing Your Written Application Materials

Application Writing Support advising sessions are available to students who meet certain eligibility requirements and deadlines. 
In these sessions, you will work personally with a pre-health advisor to discuss your drafts of your written application materials (e.g., personal statement, activity descriptions, disclosure statements, and secondary application essays).

Benefits of participating in Application Writing Support sessions:

  • You will attend a series of mandatory group meetings that will help you understand how to prepare effective and compelling written application materials
  • You will be given a clear set of tasks to complete, with externally imposed deadlines that will keep you on track so that you will be prepared to navigate the application process successfully
  • You will be able to work individually with our pre-health advisors to review and discuss your written drafts

How to Participate in Application Writing Support Advising Sessions

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).
         
  • 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 Application Writing Support sessions 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 of 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 of 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.

Details to come!

  • Save a personal copy of the Pre-Application Spreadsheet.
    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.
     
  • Tabs 1-7 are required. Tabs 8-10 are optional but recommended so that we can provide you with truly comprehensive advising.
     
  • Send an email to CEprehealth@colorado.edu to provide the link to your Pre-Application Spreadsheet.
    Subject line: Pre-Application Spreadsheet for [Your Name]
     
  • We will review your Pre-Application Spreadsheet to verify that you have completed all required sections in good faith before the deadline. If approved, you will be invited to schedule your application coaching sessions.

Deadlines:

  • Full-Access Deadline (eligible for 3 individual coaching sessions): Submit completed Pre-Application Spreadsheet by January 15 (no later than 11:59 p.m., MT)
     
  • Final Deadline (eligible for 2 individual coaching sessions): Submit completed Pre-Application Spreadsheet by April 1 (no later than 11:59 p.m., MT) 

Students who attended all three required workshops in a prior year may submit their Pre-Application Spreadsheet at any time prior to the deadlines for the upcoming year's Application Coaching program. However, to prioritize our work with students in the current year's application process, we will wait until after September 10 to commence application coaching sessions with the following year's applicants. 

  • Once your Pre-Application Spreadsheet has been approved, you will be given instructions for scheduling your individual application coaching sessions.
     
  • To ensure that all of our advisees have equitable access to individual coaching, each student may schedule a maximum of one coaching session per calendar month.
     
  • As noted above, students who attended all three required workshops in a prior year may submit their Pre-Application Spreadsheet at any time prior to the deadlines for the upcoming year's application coaching program. However, to prioritize our work with students in the current year's application process, we will wait until after September 10 to commence application coaching sessions with the following year's applicants.