• Turned in a completed copy of your "High School Info Form". The form can be downloaded from the Premed website.
• Turned in a copy of your Post-Secondary Experiences Form which you revised after it was critiqued by personnel in the Premedical Office. You may download the Sample Post-Secondary Experiences Form to use as a guide (do NOT copy the entries from the sample).
• Turned in a copy of your "Questions to Answer Before You Write Your Personal Statement/Career Essay" which you revised after it was critiqued by personnel in the Premedical Office.
• Prepared good draft of Personal Statement/Career Essay which was revised after it was critiqued by Premed.

• During the first week of the semester, print off your Bannerweb transcript and use it to complete the GPA Worksheet. Be sure to refer to the Assessment Overview before completing your GPA Worksheet. See SAMPLE GPA Worksheet A and SAMPLE GPA Worksheet B for reference. The "Assessing Chances" document is available only in the Premed Office and provides some guidance in determining your progress.
• Read Newsweek or Time FROM COVER TO COVER EVERY WEEK.
• Read a book a month for the entire semester.
• Attend all meetings for Juniors Premeds.
• Check your e-mail frequently.
• Keep your grades up.
• Think about applying to a summer program which provides exposure to the health professions or research experience.

• If you are taking the MCAT, you MUST enroll in either the Kaplan Review (local office 504-866-TEST) or Princeton (local office 504-865-1060) MCAT Reviews IN JANUARY OR EARLIER.
• Attend all of the Review classes and spend an additional 8-12 hours/week studying outside of class.
• Keep your grades up.

MARCH (Meet with Premed Adviser to choose school and with Premed Worker to choose experiences to include in "Post-Secondary Experiences")

• In the second week of March, meet with a Premedical Adviser on an individual basis so the two of you can jointly choose the schools to which you will apply. The following is an outline of the meeting...
  • Things to do AT LEAST A DAY BEFORE the meeting:
    1. Print (or pick-up) a copy of our general advice "Selecting Schools" and its supplements from the Premed website.
    2. If you are applying to medical school, prepare a tentative list of 10 schools to which you will apply. If you are applying to any other type of health profession school (e.g. dental, podiatry, etc. school), review reference materials in the Premed Office and/or research the individual schools on-line, etc. and pick at least three schools that you will apply to.
    3. Print (or pick-up) a copy of Questionnaire #1 for Schools Meeting Form , complete it, and bring to the interview.
    4. Print (or pick-up) a copy of Questionnaire #2 for Schools Meeting Form , complete it, and bring to the interview.
    5. Bring the items above with you at your sheduled time to the interview.
  • Things you will do DURING the meeting:
    1. Discuss your responses to the completed Questionnaire #1 for Schools Meeting Form .
    2. Obtain Premed's comments about the schools to which you intend to apply.
    3. Make modifications in your list if necessary and complete Questionnaire #2 for Schools Meeting Form. Keep the latter document so you can use it when you actually apply.
• In the last week of March, meet with a Premed worker to discuss which 15 of the items on your Post-Secondary Experiences Form should be put into the "Post-Secondary Experiences" of the AMCAS form (for medical school) or similar forms for other schools. BEFORE the meeting, you should...
  • Print a copy of your Post-Secondary Experiences Form on which you can write. Remember to bring this copy to the meeting.
  • Choose the 15 items you think would be most important to include on your application. Please note that you should generally give preference to items which extend over longer periods of time or concern NON-ACADEMIC activities.

Take the MCAT or DAT in April (before finals) or in May (immediately after finals) . Check at www.aamc.org to see deadlines for registering for the MCAT or www.ada.org to obtain information about taking the DAT. Then complete the MCAT Questionnaire within two days. If you wish to remain anonymous, submit a printed copy. If you don't care, complete it in MS Word and submit as an e-mail attachment.