Graduate health professions​ programs that typically expect a committee letter of recommendation - when the applicant's host institution has a committee letter writing process - are immediately below.  However, please verify program expectations by directly contacting each school that particularly interests you.

• Dentistry
• Medicine (MD and DO)
• Optometry
  
• Podiatry​

DePaul's Committee Letter is considered a composite letter. It is considered a composite letter because it incorporates information from several different sources. The purpose of a composite letter is to provide a clear narrative of the applicant's candidacy and address any problems or issues that may have occurred during their time at DePaul.

The composite Committee Letter that will be sent might include information from the following sources:

• Online student portfolio
• Individual letters of recommendation
• Transcripts
• PAC interview
• PAC ranking criteria

Students who go through the Pre-Heath Advising Committee can receive the following rating for their committee letter: Exceptional, Highly Recommend, and Recommend. 

You can find the rubric for the ranking process HERE.

*The PAC rubric is reviewed and/or adjusted every year.

At the information session, you will learn about all the components of the PAC process which include your PAC mentoring conversations, online PAC Portfolio, PAC interview, committee letter of recommendation, and expectations for you as you go through the process. The PAC information session will be held in weeks 4 or 5 during the autumn quarter.

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• 3-5 individual letters of recommendation​​
• Send the following link to your evaluators:
• PAC Individual Letter Form
• one must be from a DePaul science faculty member
• ​one must be from a healthcare professional (this can include a supervisor)
• How to Request an Individual Letter of Recommendation.pdf

• ​AAMC Individual Letter of Recommendation Best Practices.pdf

Once you have completed all the above components, students will be contacted by email to set up an interview with the PAC during February. The purpose of the interview is to assess your interviewing skills, further inform the mentors' committee letter of recommendation, and coach​ you on how to effectively ​illustrate your viability as an applicant to a graduate health professions program. ​

After your PAC ​interview,​ you will meet with your PAC mentor to discuss the outcome of your interview and the PAC ​ranking of your​ committee letter of recommendation​.

​Students may be ranked as one of the following: Exceptional, Highly Recommend, Recommend, and Unable to Recommend at this Time. Ranking Criteria

PAC committee letters will be written by the PAC and ready to be sent through the CAS system, starting June. To release your committee letter of recommendation, please make sure the advisor release is selected on your application, and then email CSHPreHealth@depaul.edu to request your committee letter to be sent by the PAC to your designated schools.

Please note that submitting your professional school application early is crucial to being a competitive applicant. The earlier you submit your application, the better your chances of getting an interview or being accepted into a program. Therefore, the PAC encourages students to submit their application early in the cycle to enable the PAC to send the committee letter, starting in June. However, if you are late in submitting your application, the deadline by which to request your PAC committee letter be sent on your behalf is ​August 31st. If you request your PAC committee letter to be sent on your behalf after August 31st, we cannot guarantee a prompt delivery of the committee letter.​
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Don't forget to send thank you notes to all the people who helped you through this process (individual letter of recommendation writers and PAC mentor)​.