The program allows students interested in law to begin, as freshmen, to evaluate their interest in legal studies. The Legal Studies Program is described under the course descriptions of the Political Science and Legal Studies Department. This includes medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, veterinary, optometry, physical therapy, and other health related fields. Students considering a career in one of these fields should contact a member of the Committee, or the Dean of Studies office, upon admission to Manhattanville to start planning. Students should begin to take courses to prepare for admission to the appropriate graduate professional program in their first year of college.
Standardized examinations are part of the admission process to many programs.
The skills and concepts tested by the MCAT are those identified by physicians and medical educators as prerequisite for the practice of medicine. Medical school faculty hope that testing for these skills on the MCAT will encourage undergraduates with broad educational backgrounds to consider careers in the health professions and will stimulate premedical students to investigate a wide variety of course offerings outside the natural sciences. The MCAT is usually taken in April or August of the student's Junior year, with application to medical school made in the fall of the Senior year. The sequence in which these courses are taken should be discussed with an academic advisor, preferably an advisor in your proposed major. Students interested in programs other than medical, dental or veterinary school, should complete the courses for the Minor in Health Sciences as listed in the catalog.