Application Process

Application Process

An application is complete and ready for review when all of the following materials have been received. Finalists will be granted a virtual interview.

Important Dates for PREP 2022:

December 2021 - Online Application Opens

March 2022 - Final Deadline

April 2022 - Decision Released

*The online application & supplemental materials (including Letter of  Recommendations) needs to be received by this date to be considered for screening.

How to Apply:

STEP 1: COMPLETE AN ONLINE APPLICATION (Will open December 2021)

Technical Requirement: It is highly recommended to use Mozilla Firefox browser when filling out your application. 

All documents below needs to be uploaded through the online application portal (PDF COPY REQUIRED)

• Copy of your financial aid award letter from your undergraduate institution for the current year.

• Unofficial transcripts from all colleges and universities attended (PDF Form)
• Personal Essay (minimum 1000 words, maximum 1500 words) describing your personal, family and community background; your motivation for a medical career; what you have done to develop your interest and knowledge of modern medicine; and what you hope to accomplish by participation in UCLA PREP (PDF Form)

Letter of Recommendation: Letter writers will receive an e-mail (the letter writers email address that the applicant inputed in their application) granting them access and instructions on how to upload their letters online.

• Two letters of recommendation, one from a science professor (math, biology, chemistry and other science course) and one from a premedical advisor or employer.
  • The applicant will receive an auto generated email confirmation whenever an LOR has been submitted in their behalf by their writers. 
  • It is the applicants responsibility to follow-up with their letter writers for a timely submission of their letter of recommendations.

Note for the letter writers:

You will be getting an email once a student submitted an application online and added you as a letter writer. We suggest first checking your Spam and Trash folders to ensure that the email was not accidentally classified as spam. If the recommender email message is not in any of these folders, please email uclaprep@mednet.ucla.edu with Subject Line: PREP 2022 LOR Assist and we can assist you further. The letter of recommendation needs to be uploaded before the posted deadlines above for the application to be considered complete.  

Alternatively, letter writers can submit their letters as early as December 2021 through this link: (Link will be available December 2021)

STEP 2: UPON ACCEPTANCE TO THE PROGRAM, PLEASE SUBMIT THE ADDITONAL MATERIALS

• Completed PREP 2022 On-boarding checklist and support documents

• Official Transcript(s) (Applicant can send e-transcripts directly from their institution)
  
  

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