Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program Applicant Review Process

How We Review Your Application

Here’s what actually happens after you submit your application in OTCAS.

Step 1: We check and score your file.

After your application is verified by OTCAS, our OTD Admissions team reviews your grades, coursework, and prerequisites. The committee looks at your GPA (prerequisites and cumulative), observation hours (including whether you’ve observed across multiple practice settings), personal statement, letters of recommendation, and any recommended coursework you’ve completed, all scored using the same standardized process for every applicant. No favorites, no guesswork.

Step 2: You interview, your way.

Make it this far, and you’ll interview with two faculty members. Choose in-person or virtual, whichever works better for you. We don’t do one big interview day. Interviews happen individually throughout the cycle as applications come in, so you won’t be stuck waiting for a specific date.

Step 3: Committee decides.

Your application score and interview score combine into one composite. The committee reviews it, along with everything else in your file, and lands on one of five outcomes:

• Accept: You’re in.
• Conditional Accept: You’re in, pending one more thing (finishing your observation hours, wrapping up a prerequisite, a missing letter of recommendation, or a final transcript).
• Waitlist: Not yet, but you’re still in the running if a seat opens.
• Deny: Not this cycle.
• Defer: You got in, but you’re choosing to start next year instead.

How many seats do we have?

30 per cohort.

Locking in your seat

Accepted? A $500 non-refundable deposit holds your spot, and it goes straight toward your first semester’s tuition.

We move as fast as we can on decisions, but timing depends on how many applications we’re working through and where yours lands in the queue.

For our full non-discrimination and reasonable accommodations policy, see Admissions Overview.