Pre-Health Advising

You will be prompted to enter basic information, including any ID numbers that may appear on transcripts sent to AMCAS by any of the schools you have attended.

When you enter Haverford College, at the bottom of the page you will see ADVISOR RELEASE. Please select YES.

This section will prompt you to enter basic contact information, citizenship, legal residence, languages spoken, ethnicity and race, parent(s) or guardian(s), siblings, military service, military discharge, and criminal convictions.

You are required to submit official transcripts from all undergraduate institutions you have attended for which an official transcript has been generated. Please refer to the College's Office of the Registrar’s website to order your official Haverford transcript and electronically send it through the National Clearinghouse.

Quaker Consortium: If you enrolled in courses at Bryn Mawr and/or Swarthmore during the academic year, please list those as 'Schools Attended' on your application, along with a Transcript Exception for Consortium/Cross-Registration Programs. If you enrolled in courses at Penn, please list it as a 'School Attended' on your application and request an official transcript, even if those courses appear on the Haverford official transcript. For classes at Penn, you should request a transcript for any course, even if that course is on the Haverford official transcript.

Applicants are responsible for course classifications and, for allopathic (MD) medical schools, AAMC offers a Course Classification Guide. For course conversions, AAMC also offers an AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide.

Up to 15 experiences can be entered in this section, and three are permitted to be highlighted as “significant.” You will have an additional 1350 characters to describe these three experiences.

The most obvious items to include are clinical and research based experiences, which will likely take at least two of your “most significant.” From your experiences at Haverford, consider showing areas where you had opportunity to develop leadership skills, and where you worked in a team enviroment (Customs, Students’ Council, Clubs, Honor Council, Athletics, etc.)

Haverford College offers a Committee Letter for any current student alum who received their bachelors degree from Haverford. You are required to follow the instructions and adhere to all of the deadlines to receive a letter.

Haverford’s committee letters include a primary letter authored by the pre-health advisor, written on behalf of the faculty pre-health committee, as well as all of your letters of recommendation.

Exception: If you have participated in a post-bacc program that offers a committee letter (or variation), it is recommended that you use their process and letter in your medical school application. Medical schools will want to hear from the most recent academic institution, especially as it relates to your science coursework.

You will use this section to select and apply to MD and MD/PhD programs. A few notes:

• MSAR is the best location to learn about medical schools, in-state/out-of-state acceptance rates, MCAT breakdown, and school-specific programming. The cost is $28, and a good investment.
• To start the verification process, you only need one school entered. If you are waiting for an MCAT score, this is often a good option to get the process started. Try to have all schools entered by the time the applications are transmitted to medical schools.
• You are only permitted to apply to one school if you elect an early decision, until you hear a decision from that school. Discuss this option with the pre-health advisor to decide if it’s the right choice for you.

The personal statement is your opportunity to convey your important experiences, motivations, achievements, and passion for medicine as a narrative to Admissions Committees. The essay should reflect upon what you have learned from these experiences, revealing your personal and professional values and personality traits and strengths through the telling of your individual journey. The personal statement allows you to provide a mature and deeper context to your background and drive towards a path in medicine.

The MCAT is required for Medical School. Some schools will also require the CASPER or the AAMC PREview.