Admissions Summit

Application Process

• Applications are accepted from September 2-30, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST via CAPCSD's link to a tool called Cadmium and its Scorecard product.
• Applicants will receive a confirmation email instantly once the completed application has been submitted.
  • Sender: noreply@goCadmium.com
  • Subject line will read: Submission Confirmation: 2026 Admissions Summit Application.
• Check spam / junk / other folder for the confirmation email. If you have not received the confirmation email, the application has not been submitted. Log back into the system and ensure you have clicked the 'Preview and Submit' button.

Applicants will provide information and respond to the following:

1. Contact Information
2. Upload CV
3. Estimated # of academic faculty
4. Estimated # of clinical faculty
5. Does your university offer an undergraduate CSD program?
6. What's your university / program's typical cohort size? If you have multiple cohorts, you can also indicate that here.
7. Does your university / program accept a substantial amount (i.e. 40%+) of undergraduates from your university into the graduate program? An estimate is acceptable.
8. What was the average number of students accepted to your program for each of the following years? (2022-2023; 2023-2024; 2024-2025)
9. What is the average acceptance rate for your program over the past three years? (Compute the Average Number of Applicants Accepted/Total Applicants for the years 2022-2023 + 2023-2024 + 2024-2025)
10. What was the range of GPA of accepted students for each of the following years? (2022-2023; 2023-2024; 2024-2025)
11. Does your university / program require the GRE as an application requirement?
12. Did your university / program's GRE requirement change over the past three years?
13. Briefly describe your program's recommendation letter process and expectations.
14. Briefly describe your program's personal statement process and expectations.
15. Briefly describe your program's interview process, if your program uses one. (Having an interview process is not a requirement to implement holistic review processes.)
16. Which holistic review strategies for admissions are being implemented by your university or program currently? Check all that apply.
    • Your university / program evaluates applicant criteria related to specific mission or goals of the school (i.e., primary care, research mission, global health, urban or rural focus).
    • Your university / program has a mission statement for admissions that includes diversity.
    • Your university / program considers non-academic criteria as well as academic metrics (i.e., GPA, test scores) in the initial screening process.
    • Your university / program evaluates non-academic criteria related to student background or experience in the initial screening (first-generation status, socioeconomic status, gender, race, foreign language ability, community of origin).
    • Your university / program selects students from the waitlist by characteristics related to school mission and / or diversity.
    • Other
17. How would you characterize the degree of support you have from colleagues, admissions staff, and administration to make changes in your program's admissions processes (i.e., do you need help encouraging faculty to buy-in to using holistic admissions strategies?)?
18. The ultimate goal of this summit is to develop a community mobilized for collaborative work. In addition to the community, participants will also be expected to submit short- and long-term outcomes of their progress in implementing the holistic review strategies presented at this summit.
    1. What is / are a strategy(ies) or concept(s) you would like to learn at this summit?
    2. Over the next few years, what do you hope to gain from your engagement in this community?
    3. How could you contribute to ongoing changes in admissions processes in CSD?