Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program > Eligibility and Admissions > Information Sessions

The Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program at Johns Hopkins University hosts two information sessions annually. These virtual sessions give students a chance to meet program staff, and ask specific questions about the program and application process. We also host free virtual advising sessions on topics of interests to premedical students.

Information Session Recording

You may view our information session recording from October 16, 2024.

Open Access Education Sessions

Strategies for a Successful JHU Post-Bac Application: You’d love to submit a strong application.  We’d love to see your application be stronger!  In this session, representatives of the JHU Post-Bac Premedical Program are going to give advice you can apply to creating a stronger application for the program (and probably other programs too).  Get an insider’s view of the admissions process, and you can make it work for you.  Learn what Admissions Committees grapple with in the review process, and hear what questions they ask about your application.   Learn how we think about competitiveness and what experiences really matter.

Open Access Education Presentations

This series of virtual advising meetings addresses topics of interest to premedical students

.Do you need a post-bac program? What kind? How do I find them? How can they be different or the same? Understandably, students can have a lot of questions and be unsure how to get answers they can trust. This is the 1 of 2 videos designed to help you get trusted answers, where we cover the basics of post-bac programs to help you get started.

In the first video, we discussed the basics of post-bac programs.  In this second video, we review an approaching to choosing a program based on identifying and then using your individual preference so that you get what you want out of your post-bac experience.

Although your metrics – grades and standardized test scores – are not the most important part of your application, they can mean the difference between acceptances and rejections.  In this presentation, we’re going to discuss the role that the numbers play in applicant review (for post-bac admissions like our and for medical schools), how to know if you’re competitive in your metrics, and what you can do to improve your metrics.  The information presented will be relevant to prospective applicants for post-bac programs (including but not exclusively ours) as well as medical schools (and very likely other health professsions programs).
“Am I competitive?” is one of the most common questions we get from applicants to the Hopkins Post-Bac Premedical Program and from our students in the program.  In this presentation, we will be discussing the multi-faceted aspects of competitiveness and how to answer this question for yourself, whether we’re talking about post-bac programs, medical schools, etc.
This session explores what role different experiences play in your medical school application and how this relates to the way medical schools and postbac programs review your application, especially in the age of the pandemic.
You see that Hopkins and other postbac programs offer linkages (and partnerships), but what are linkages? Is that important? In this session, we explain how linkages and partnerships typically work, what the value and drawbacks usually are, and arm you with the information needed to decide whether you should or should not be picking programs with them in mind.