These courses must be completed prior to matriculation. Official transcripts of all coursework must be sent to the Graduate School. Exposure to genetic counseling settings is particularly desirable. Two letters of recommendation and a personal statement as required by Northwestern University. Interview by faculty members of the Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling.
Many applicants have questions about what characterizes our previous and current applicants.
It is important to remember that presenting statistics about a class of applicants does not capture the unique qualities that each applicant presents. To give you a better picture of our students' strengths, we have provided some information on the experience of our current students . In the past several years, Northwestern University's Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling has received between 100-150 applications annually. For the 1999-2000 year, we received 119 applications and interviewed approximately 35 candidates for the 6 student openings. As with most graduate programs in genetic counseling, our most competitive applicants have a strong academic record, as reflected by GPA and GRE scores, and have experience in a counseling setting, particularly in observing or participating in a genetics clinic.