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Meet Mount Holyoke Alumnae in the Health Professions
Exploring Your Options
Graduate and professional schools place high value on a liberal arts education, and MHC has an excellent reputation for producing highly motivated students who are well prepared for graduate studies in the health professions. The Career Development Center and the Committee on the Health Professions offer extensive information, resources, programs, and opportunities to guide you in your choices and through the application process.
Careers in health include more than two hundred specializations, including dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, medical research, and public health, as well the practice of medicine. It is rare for an entering student to know with certainty which specific branch of the health professions will be most suited to her talents and interests. Your job is to explore those possibilities directly, while at the same time letting your experiences in classes, research labs, internships, workshops and even informal conversations inform your decisions.
All students who are applying to post-graduate programs in the health professions should formally declare their intentions to the Committee no later than March 30th of the year in which they are planning to begin their application. Students declare their intent by completing a “pre-application” packet, available on-line and at the CDC. This packet is intended to help optimize the student’s efforts in completing an application that will be successful, and to aid the Committee in supporting the student’s application. Students who fail to submit a pre-application packet by the deadline may not receive the full support of the Committee.
Preapplication packet for health professions (PDF)
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