Preparing Your Candidacy for Prehealth Seniors
Most aspiring prehealth Princeton students apply to professional school in senior year (or later) and take a “glide” or “gap” year or years between Princeton and professional school for a variety of reasons.
Senior year should be a continued time for gaining leadership experience, fostering relationships with faculty and others who will write your letters of recommendation in the future, and ensuring that medicine is truly right for you, through clinical experience, self-reflection, and talking with mentors about your plans. It will also include finishing your thesis and determining what to do in your time after Princeton and before professional school.
Any student who may apply this year should attend an HPA Applicant Info Session in the fall semester. Dates are announced via Vitals and on Facebook.
Other resources to provide guidance:
- Evaluating your candidacy and deciding when to apply
- MCAT & other standardized test information
- Glide Year Information
- Postbac Programs information
- Career Changer Programs if you’re coming to prehealth late and need to take classes after graduation
- Record Enhancer Programs if you think you’ll need to take additional sciences to enhance your candidacy after graduation