Health Careers Advising
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Application Support
Health Careers Advising (HCA) offers a number of different types of support for you as you go through the application process, including help with building your application, working on your writing, gathering your letters of recommendation, and improving your interviewing skills.
Applying with HCA: The Details
When you are ready to apply, you will work closely with HCA starting in the spring of the year in which you apply. Please note that all of the information, instructions, and documents will be available to you in a Google Classroom that is created each year and that there will be frequent communication from Health Careers Advising throughout the process.
Here is an outline of the steps to follow to help make the process as seamless as possible:
- Watch the recording of the Applying with HCA workshop and review the slides
- Join the Google Classroom site (Information on how to do so will be provided in our newsletter as the application cycle approaches).
- Complete the Health Careers Advising Dossier (HCAD) by early February
- Schedule and attend your comprehensive advising appointment
- Scheduling opens after the HCAD due date and appointments run through the end of May
- You will not make an appointment for a comprehensive appointment until you submit your HCAD
- Work with the writing specialists to strengthen your personal statement and activity descriptions
- Have your letters of recommendation sent to HCA via UFunds
- Complete your primary application and request your letter packet from HCA
- Complete your secondary essays (with the support of the Writing Specialists)
- Schedule and attend your mock interview appointment
- Interview at health professional schools, gain acceptance, and matriculate!