Information & Forms for Medical School Applicants
Health Professions School Application Workshop
If you are planning to apply to a professional health program-medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, podiatry or physician assistant for fall 2014, you need to attend a Pre-Health Application Workshop. If you are a pre-pharmacy student, contact your pre-pharmacy advisor.
This workshop is REQUIRED if you are interested in the PPAC managing your Letters of Recommendation.
You may register to attend a workshop at 513-556-2166 or by email at PreProAdv@uc.edu.
Please include the following information when registering:
- Full name
- Date of workshop
- M#
- Phone number
- Type of program (medical, dental, veterinary, optometry, etc.)
Upcoming Workshops held in 320 University Pavilion
| Thursday, January 17 | 11:00am-12:30pm |
| Tuesday, January 22 | 9:00am-10:30am |
| Friday, January 25 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |
| Monday, February 4 |
3:00pm-4:30pm |
| Tuesday, February 12 | 3:00pm-4:30pm |
Letter of Recommendation Documents
- Letter of Recommendation Form (Form is to be given to recommender to include with letter of recommendation.)
- Letter Submission Form (Form directs where PPAC will send your letter packet. There are two pages to this form.)
- You may email this form from your UC email account to PreProAdv@uc.edu. Alternatively, you may deliver it to 120 University Pavilion.
- You may email this form from your UC email account to PreProAdv@uc.edu. Alternatively, you may deliver it to 120 University Pavilion.
- The PPAC uses AMCAS Letter Service and VirtualEvals to process Letter of Recommendation Packets.
- Note to students applying to MD programs: If you plan to use the PPAC Letter Service (to have your recommendations submitted by us to your designated medical schools), please remember to select the "Letter Packet" option in the Letters of Evaluation section of your AMCAS application. If you believe that it is necessary to customize your letters for particular schools, please schedule an appointment with a PPAC advisor to discuss this process.
Deadline
Letter of Recommendation Forms are to accompany each submitted letter of recommendation no later than Monday, June 3, 2013
Letter Service Form: Please submit this form only once you know that all of your letters of recommendation have been received at the PPAC.
GPA Calculations
- GPA Caculators
- UC's Grading Scale
- AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide
- Check out this unofficial AMCAS GPA Calculator and Instructions from the University of California, San Francisco.