Preparing and submitting your application
- Step 1: Before You Apply
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Read the聽听补苍诲听聽sections of the CASPA website.
- Step 2: Filling out Your Application
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- Create a聽CASPA application account.
- Complete the聽Personal Information听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍. This includes the聽Contact Information听补苍诲听Personal Data听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍蝉.
- Complete the聽Supporting Information听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍. This includes the聽Additional Information,听Health Related Training,听Narrative, and聽Work and Volunteer Experience听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍蝉.
- Complete the聽Academic History听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍. This includes the聽Tests听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍.
- If your program requires the GRE, enter your program鈥檚 GRE codes on the ETS website for official scores to be reported directly into CASPA.
- If your program requires the TOEFL, send the official paper TOEFL scores to CASPA.
- If your program requires other tests, send the results directly to the program.
- Complete the聽Institutions Attended听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍.
- Complete the聽Coursework听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍.
- Request that all official transcripts (US and English Canadian) be sent to CASPA.
- Send original foreign transcript evaluations to CASPA (if applicable).
- Complete the聽Evaluations听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍.
- Complete the聽Program Materials听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍. Before selecting your designations, make sure you have:
- Visited all applicable program websites to review specific admissions requirements.
- Visited all applicable program websites to review supplemental application requirements.
- Researched all program deadline requirements and determined that you are submitting before the deadline.
- Step 3: Review
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Review application聽for accuracy. Changes cannot be made once you submit your application.
- Step 4: Selecting the Programs
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Select all of the programs you want your application to be sent to. You can add programs but once you submit, you cannot remove programs.
- Step 5: Submission and Payment
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- Submit your application.聽Do not wait for CASPA to receive all of your materials before you submit your application.
- Pay the applicable fees聽related to your application designations.聽Print a hard copy of the payment receipt for your records.
After you have submitted your application
- Step 1: Checking Your Application Status
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Once you have submitted your application, check your application status often.聽You can check your application status at any time in the聽My Status聽menu in your application portal.
- Make sure at least聽two of the three聽letters of recommendation and聽all聽of your US and English-speaking Canadian transcripts have been received by CASPA.
- Step 2: Completion and Verification
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- Once your application is considered complete, CASPA will verify your application. This process can take聽up to four weeks聽once all your documents are received by CASPA.
- Once your submitted application and other materials are verified, CASPA will email your official application to your designated PA programs.
- Once verification is complete, CASPA is no longer involved in the process. When your programs make their admission decisions, they will contact you directly. CASPA does聽not聽monitor admissions decisions.
- Step 3: Applying to Additional Programs (Optional)
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- If you decide to apply to additional programs, you may add designations by logging into your application and selecting the聽Designations听蝉别肠迟颈辞苍.