Is the process of preparing for and applying to other health professions programs (i.e. veterinary, dentistry, public health) the same as it is for applying to medical school?
This is a yes and no answer. Regardless of the type of program you are interested in you are encouraged to complete certain prerequisite courses, sit for an entrance exam, participate in extracurricular activities, and go through an application process of filling out forms, submitting transcripts and letters of recommendation, and possibly even interviewing. So in that way, the processes are very similar indeed. However, there are nuances throughout both the preparation stage and the application stage that differ significantly among the health professional programs. One of the major difference is that students who are applying to allopathic or osteopathic medical schools are required to register with the UCS Health Professions Advisory Board, but students applying to other health professions do not (although those students are still encouraged to meet with a health professions counselor early and often throughout their Yale career). For more complete information regarding the preparati
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