For Medical and Dental School Applicants, the UMBC Health Professions Evaluation Committee's (HPEC) Cohort process - which begins with exercises to help applicants prepare the materials they need to complete their professional school application, and results in a Committee/Composite Letter from the HPEC to accompany an applicant's other Letters of Recommendation - is set in motion nearly a year and half before an applicant plans to enter Medical or Dental School. The next HPEC Cohort, supporting applicants planning to enter Medical or Dental School in Fall 2023, is about to begin!
IMPORTANT
FINAL REMINDER - The UMBC HPEC Fall 2023 Cohort is forming!
Submit your interest form before the February 15th deadline!
Information regarding the process of expressing an interest in joining the Health Professions Evaluation Committee (HPEC) Fall 2023 Cohort has been posted to the PreMedical & PreDental Advising Office web site. Follow the link below to view the Minimum Requirements for participation and to access the online forms through which you can express your interest.
The HPEC Cohort process serves current UMBC Undergraduate students, and UMBC Alumni who completed an Undergraduate (Bachelor's) degree at UMBC within the past seven (7) years.
The deadlines for expression of interest from First-Time Applicants to Medical or Dental School who wish to join the HPEC Fall 2023 Cohort are:
11:59 pm on February 15, 2022 for UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (UMBC Undergraduates who plan to complete their Bachelor's degree at UMBC between January 2022 and May 2023, inclusive)
[The deadline for Alumni - May 2015 through December 2021 grads - to express interest in joining the HPEC Fall 2023 Cohort has already passed]
Re-Applicants - meaning, those who participated in a previous HPEC Cohort past the point where an HPEC Committee Letter was submitted to Medical or Dental School on their behalf - have an extended period of time to join the upcoming Cohort. This later deadline is designed to give applicants who are awaiting decisions from the current (2021-2022) application cycle additional time to decide to join the next immediate Cohort once their admission status at all of the schools they have applied to has become clearer. Please remember that you can receive an HPEC Committee letter a maximum of TWO times, so make sure that you have addressed (and improved) the weaker aspects of your applicant profile before making another attempt. Potential Re-Applicants should see the website linked below for more details.
As in the past, additional action beyond the expression of interest will be required to officially join the Cohort. Information about next steps will be sent via email to current undergraduates and alumni who have submitted their interest form, beginning in January and continuing on a weekly basis through the interest submission deadlines.