Application Coaching Program

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 engagement in 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.

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.

Engagement in Pre-Health Advising

• You must have completed at least one individual pre-health advising session within the 10 months prior to submitting your Pre-Application Google Sheet. 

This robust program begins with a series of three mandatory group meetings that provide foundational guidance on preparing an effective, compelling application to professional school.

Each meeting is offered twice per year (once in person, once on Zoom). Dates and times are posted on our Upcoming Events page and in the Post-Bacc Google Calendar.

• Overview of Application Preparation Process
  • In this meeting, we discuss what to do in the months leading up to application season. We also review each of the steps and deadlines for participating in our Application Coaching program.
     
• Pre-Application Workshop, Part 1
  • We will review copies of successful applications, discuss strategies for asking for strong letters of recommendation, and revisit our pre-health self-assessment to help you think of ways to strengthen your candidacy between now and application time.
     
• Pre-Application Workshop, Part 2
  • Participants in the Application Coaching program will turn in the first draft of their professional school application over winter break. In preparation, this workshop provides guidance on best practices for writing your personal statement, your application experience descriptions, and your secondary essays. In addition, we will provide advice on writing the disclosure statements for academic or legal infractions, in case either or both of these apply to you. 

• 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.