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Therapy Program<\/a><\/li><li class=\"breadcrumb-item active\" aria-current=\"page\">DPT Rolling Admission Criteria<\/li><\/ol><\/nav>\n\n\n<p>Rolling Admission is an admission offer once the application is reviewed, instead of moving into the general pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bc221043f946a193d78f7c680f812de2\">The difference between Early Decision and Rolling Admission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The PTCAS Early Decision program is a binding option for applicants who decide that a particular physical therapy degree program is their first choice and they commit to enroll if accepted. Early Decision applicants can only apply to one physical therapy degree program. &nbsp;UM-Flint is not a part of the Early Decision program via PTCAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UM-Flint DPT Rolling Admission is the process with which applicants can be offered admission immediately upon application review and are not limited to one school, like the Early Decision. &nbsp;This process offers applicants an opportunity to be admitted to the program prior to the December final decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bb903c068660a198619ddad8833737b5\"><strong>Rolling Admission Metrics<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cumulative GPA: \u00a03.50 or higher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Science GPA: 3.50 or higher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d206394c0107972e540b3767f47291f6\"><strong>Rolling Admission Attributes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Essay Questions: \u00a0Answered with great breadth and depth of topic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Letters of recommendations: Both letters (one from a PT and one from academia) highly recommended<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8cd767190a16e3dbad199510f8a1c0d8\"><strong>Rolling Admission Experiences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Observation\/work hours with a PT: not required but please submit if you have them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Life and academic experiences: looking for breadth and depth of experiences at least three of the one of the following:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Well-written personal essay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Well-written re-application Essay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Service Learning or study abroad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interprofessional educational experiences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>College sports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honors courses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Military<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second career<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leadership positions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Previously published\/presented research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First-generation college student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last two years&#8217; performance (all grades B or higher)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Four-year college sciences (all sciences taken at a four-year university)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Graduate-level courses taken<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resilience is written about in a personal essay, demonstrating great character with difficult situations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kinesiology\/movement science courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/physical-therapy-entry-level-dpt\/rolling-admission-criteria\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":209,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11366","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11369,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11366\/revisions\/11369"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}