The OAT application should be mailed at least one month before the student plans to take the test. Students are urged to take the test no later than the fall of the year preceding the desired admission date. Letters of recommendation provided by an undergraduate preprofessional committee or by three professors who know the student - letters must be submitted on official college or university stationery. Students may also submit additional letters from optometrists, other health professionals, or personal references. All letters of recommendation must be mailed directly to the college's Office of Student Affairs and Admissions by the originator.
Students are welcome to visit the college.
The director of the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions will arrange a tour of the college facilities if advance notice is given by mail or phone. Applications may be submitted and acted upon before all pre-optometric course requirements have been completed, if it is clear that the requirements will be satisfactorily completed prior to registration. In this case, students must submit, prior to registration, an official transcript documenting satisfactory completion of the remaining requirements. Transfer Students To be admitted with advanced standing, students must have satisfactorily completed at least one year of course work in a school of optometry accredited by the Council on Education of the American Optometric Association and must submit both an official transcript and a letter from the dean supporting the request for transfer. Unless the student is in the upper half of the class and presents justifiable reasons for requesting a transfer, such requests are ordinarily denied.