Applying to Graduate School in the Health Professions can be an intense time! Students are often overwhelmed by deadlines and timelines and are not always clear about the right time to apply. Carmen Gamlin, Director & Advisor for Pre-Health Programs goes over the different application types specifically for Detroit Mercy Titans and Prospective Titans. She also reviews Early Decision Programs and their timelines.
If you are already accelerating your timeline to a bachelor’s degree graduation with AP/IB/CLEP or dual enrollment (early college) then a Gap Year or Enhance Year may be ideal for you!
Graduating with your bachelor’s degree in 3 years does not mean that you apply to graduate schools in the health professions after just 2 years in college – even if you have junior standing. Graduate schools in the health professions do not share your application urgency. It takes more than classes to prepare to save lives.
An enhancement year is your opportunity to build a more competitive application before applying to graduate school. Through your clinical activities, shadowing, community service, leadership and perhaps research, you can then have an application that is not just academically complete but holistically competitive.
These are things you can apply to while you are in college.
Jesuit Preference means Guaranteed Interviews at Regis University or Creighton University
You should know that you are graduating from the University of Detroit Mercy which is the only Jesuit college or university in the State of Michigan. We are part of the Jesuit consortium with 26 colleges or universities throughout the United States. Knowing this, graduating from the University of Detroit Mercy with Jesuit Preference is exciting!
- If you are a qualified applicant and graduate from the University of Detroit Mercy, then Regis University & Creighton University will give you guaranteed interviews for Physical Therapy.
- Creighton will give you a guaranteed interview for PharmD applications
- If you meet the pre-requisite courses and GPA, Regis University PharmD will guarantee your admissions!
LECOM Guaranteed Interviews for Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy
As a Preferred Affiliated University, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, LECOM guarantees interviews for qualified applicants who will graduate from the University of Detroit Mercy in the following areas:
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, DO
- Doctor of Medical Dentistry. DMD
- Doctor of Pharmacy, PharmD programs
Work with Carmen Gamlin, Director and Advisor of Pre-Health Programs during your undergraduate semesters to insure you are a qualified applicant. Go Titans!!!!
Early Decision: Allopathic (MD) WSU-SOM & CMU-COM
Early Decision Program is something specific to allopathic medicine or MD. We have two early decision programs here in the State of Michigan: one is Wayne State University School of Medicine, and the other is Central Michigan University College of Medicine. Application is early in the AMCAS cycle. The earliest Medical School applications are the summer after your junior year in college.
If your favorite medical school program is one of these two and you want to potentially save on application fees then check and see if you are eligible.
Early Assurance Program: MSUCHM
We’re one of the affiliated undergraduate institutions with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. This is applied through AMCAS during your regular bachelor’s degree. You would typically apply the summer after your junior year, but with the Early Assurance Program, you apply in the winter of your junior year before the AMCAS application cycle even opens. You will be taking the MCAT very early in the summer; at the latest it would be mid-June.
Early Acceptance: LECOM DO Program
Early acceptance from LECOM has 2 formats. Assuming your bachelor’s degree is 4 years and you are eligible for the 3+4 program, then your senior year is going to be your first year of graduate school. LECOM Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is a DO, osteopathic school and the largest US medical school in the country.
Current Titans would apply either during your freshmen or sophomore semesters of college. If you are a Prospective Titan, then can apply to the LECOM Early Acceptance Program during your senior year of high school before you even start college. For the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic program, you cannot apply during your junior or senior year of college because you have to have at least two years left in your undergraduate degree to be eligible to apply for LECOM.
Early Acceptance:
WSU PharmD 3+4 or
Wayne State University PharmD program and the University of Detroit Mercy have a 3+4 option. Your senior year is also the P1, the first year of pharmacy school. Pharmacy school is four years long, that’s why it’s 3+4.
Early Acceptance:
University of St. Joseph 3 + 3 PharmD
We also have a 3+3 program with University of Saint Joseph PharmD program which is located in Connecticut. Their PharmD program is already just three years. They go year-round as opposed to having months off in the summer. It is the same process; three years of your 4-year bachelor’s degree then your senior year becomes your first year of pharmacy school. Of course, just applying to this Mercy University’s PharmD program even without the early acceptance program you have 4 +3.
Questions?
Reach out to the University Director & Advisor for Pre-Health Programs for Titans and prospective Titans, Carmen Gamlin. To schedule an appointment use https://calendly.com/prehealthadvisor