WVU partners with Waynesburg
Waynesburg University recently created an affiliation agreement with West Virginia University’s School of Medicine in Morgantown W.Va., to offer more education opportunities for Waynesburg graduates.
Jacquelyn Core, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Waynesburg University, said the main benefit to participating in these agreements is the opportunity to make early connections between the students and the people who may ultimately make the final decision on their admission status into a graduate program.
Participating students will be matched with a faculty mentor from the WVU School of Medicine to help them navigate and prepare for the application process and a future in medicine. Participating students are also guaranteed an interview during the admissions process, as long as they maintain a specified GPA and receive satisfactory MCAT or GRE scores.
“The interview is everything,” Core said in a written statement. “There will be lots of qualified applicants, but if you cannot get the interview, there is no way to advance, so the guaranteed interview is a really big deal.”
Core added Waynesburg University has connected with additional schools with graduate-level engineering, law, physical therapy, occupational therapy and physician assistant programs to establish similar agreements. She hopes agreements with these programs will come to fruition soon.