Advising
Below is a general timetable for success. Further details are in the Juniata College Health Professions Manual and are covered in annual all-class meetings and announcements through our in-house electronic list-serve.
Freshman year
- Make sure you have an advisor on the Health Professions Committee
- Pick up a program guideline sheet and carefully plan your courses in consultation with your advisor
- Attend the all-class admissions test prep workshop (offered on a biennial basis)
- Plan to get some experience in your intended field during semester breaks and/or over the summer
- Participate in the summer reading assignment in preparation for your upcoming Admissions Exam
Sophomore year
- If you are interested in a 2 + 2 program, apply in the fall
- Attend the all-class admissions test prep workshop (offered on a biennial basis)
- If you are interested in a 3 + _ program that requires an admission exam, prepare to take it no later than the spring
- Assess your progress and plan your course work accordingly in consultation with your advisor
- Investigate schools in which you may be interested in order to check for any additional prerequisite courses they may require
- Plan to get some experience in your intended field during semester breaks and/or over the summer
- Expect to be notified of your progress by the Committee over the summer
- Participate in the summer reading assignment in preparation for your upcoming Admissions Exam
Junior year
- Carefully review your career plans in consultation with your advisor and make adjustments or consider alternatives if necessary
- Attend the all-class admissions test prep workshop (offered on a biennial basis)
- If you are pursuing a program that requires an admission exam, prepare to take it no later than the spring
- Attend the interview training workshop, be interviewed by the Health Professional Committee, and set up your permanent file
- Work on your personal statement for professional school application
- Seriously investigate schools to which you may want to apply and be certain that you will have completed all prerequisite courses and College requirements
- Attend the Application Workshop and apply for professional school during the summer or early next fall, depending on the health professions field
- Begin earnestly finding out about financial aid options for professional school and pay off any credit card debts. Save money for applications and interviewing.
- Continue gaining experience in your intended field during semester breaks and/or over the summer
Senior year
- Apply ASAP to health professions fields that have individual applications and attend promptly to secondary applications for those fields in which cooperative applications were made over the summer
- Have alternative plans in view in case you are not accepted this year
- Prepare for interviews
- Send updated transcripts of fall grades to schools to which you have applied
- Submit your and your parents' tax returns as early as you can and apply for financial aid at schools to which you have been accepted or are on the waiting list
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