{"id":50,"date":"2012-04-18T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:34:01","slug":"medical-school-application-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/medical-school-application-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical School Application Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><strong>What is the medical school application portfolio?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The medical school application portfolio is developed as a student prepares to apply to medical school. The purpose of completing the portfolio is to obtain a committee letter from the OSU Pre-medical Committee, which your pre-med advisor writes. A committee letter acts as a cover letter to all the other letters of reccomendation that you collect. In order to be eligible for a committee letter you must have at least a 3.2 cumulative gpa and a MCAT score of 24. Exceptions are only made for students with extenuating circumstances. Students do not automatically receive a committee letter. You must submit all the required documents and meet any deadlines.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Portfolio contents:<\/strong><br \/>\nConfidentiality statement (print) <a href='http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/files\/2012\/04\/Confidentiality-statement1.doc'>Confidentiality statement<\/a><br \/>\nPersonal information sheet (print) <a href='http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/files\/2012\/04\/Information-Sheet.doc'>Information Sheet<\/a><br \/>\nSelf assessment (print) <a href='http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/files\/2012\/04\/Self-Assessment.doc'>Self Assessment<\/a><br \/>\nPersonal statement<br \/>\nLetters of recommendation<br \/>\nFinal list of schools which you are applying<br \/>\nMCAT scores<br \/>\nAMCAS and\/or AACOMAS application<br \/>\nCheck for $12 payable to College of Science<br \/>\n(cost of letter loading service for applications)<br \/>\nComplete EXSS 343 pre-med section<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about letters<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can have letters sent to the advising office at any time and they will be held for you until you apply. You will need a minimum of 5 letters in your portfolio from the following people: 2-science, 1-physician, 1-major professor, additional letters can be from physicians, professors, supervisors, volunteer coordinators, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Print and fill out a letter of recommendation form to give to each person that is writing you a letter.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/files\/2012\/04\/Letter-of-Reccomendation-Form.doc'>Letter of Recommendation Form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the medical school application portfolio? The medical school application portfolio is developed as a student prepares to apply to medical school. The purpose of completing the portfolio is to obtain a committee letter from the OSU Pre-medical Committee, which your pre-med advisor writes. A committee letter acts as a cover letter to all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3977,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phhspremed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}