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Bachelors Degree
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Applicants must be certified Athletic Trainers or must have completed
requirements for and be eligible to take the BOC Certification Exam.
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The
Graduate Scholl recommends that applicants have at minimum
at or above the 50% percentile on both the verbal and quantitative portions of
the Graduate Record Exam. It is strongly recommended that applicants take the
written Analytical portion of the GRE.
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Applicants are recommended to have a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average.
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Applicants must satisfy prerequisite coursework requirements for admission as
established by the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
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Qualified applicants must have completed a research and/or statistics course to
establish a foundation for graduate level work in research and statistics.
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Applicants will be invited for an on-campus interview with the sports medicine
faculty and staff.
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Applications received by January 1 are given priority consideration for
admission and funding opportunities. Selection of
students is made in late February. Click
on this link to the
GRADUATE
SCHOOL and follow thier specific directions for application.
Once the
applications have been reviewed in early January, the top 12-15 candidates
(based on GPA, GRE, and letters of recommendation) are invited to campus for a
three-day interview with the specialization faculty, athletic training staff,
and enrolled graduate students. The applicants are evaluated in terms of 1)
previous experience, 2) academic credentials, 3) personality, and 4) potential
as a professional athletic trainer. Final selection of the top 9 candidates is
based on the above criteria and is determined by general consensus of the entire
Sports Medicine Staff. Nine students are admitted to the program each year for
a total of 18 students in any given year.
For students admitted
from 2002-2008 the mean GPA is 3.67; the mean verbal GRE score is 504 at the 59th
percentile, and the mean quantitative GRE score is 650 at the 59th
percentile.
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