{"id":265,"date":"2025-08-19T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:44:59","slug":"indepprofdev2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/home\/courses\/current-schedule\/indepprofdev\/indepprofdev2\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Professional Development Interim course examples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Specific examples and recommendations by field:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/mcat\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"mcat\">MCAT<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/lsat\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"lsat\">LSAT<\/a><br>Finance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mcat\"><strong>Specific info for MCAT prep\/med school application preparation course<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Recommended timing: <em>Jr year<\/em> if applying senior year, or seniors if taking gap year<ul><li>This course will likely be done before completing all necessary course work to take MCAT. It is ok if most courses, but not all are completed when taking this course.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>MCAT prep<ul><li>Take Kaplan and show x number modules ($1500+);<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>OR test from book, practice tests on website ($30)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Requirement: complete 2 practice tests<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Application prep for common app for medical school<ul><li>Write short personal statement (why should we pick you)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Pick 3 activities that they want to highlight \u2013 paragraph about each<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Your proposal must include due dates for each draft and an email from a faculty member that has agreed to provide feedback on your drafts.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Structure: Students <em>may<\/em> meet as a group once a week to support each other (depends on number enrolled for this goal)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"LSAT\"><strong>Specific info for LSAT prep\/law school application preparation course<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Recommended timing: <em>Jr year<\/em> if applying senior year, or seniors if taking gap year<\/li><li>LSAT prep (choose from below options)<ul><li>Take Kaplan and complete all sections ($899+);<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Take LSAT Demon and submit a scheduled plan for 5 hours per day based on format of the program ($95 per month)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Take Magoosh and submit a schedule for 5 hours per day based on format of the program ($199 per month)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Take 7Sage and complete 4 sessions per day and a timed LSAT practice exam on the final day of Interim ($129 per month)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Application prep for Law School<ul><li>Write Personal statement \u2013 4 drafts&nbsp; &#8211; one completed each week of Interim with a final draft submitted on the last day.&nbsp; Your proposal should include due dates for each draft and an email from a faculty member that has agreed to provide feedback on your drafts.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Structure: Students <em>may<\/em> meet as a group once a week to support each other (depends on number enrolled for this goal)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specific information for Finance:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specific examples and recommendations by field:MCATLSATFinance Specific info for MCAT prep\/med school application preparation course: Recommended timing: Jr year if applying senior year, or seniors if taking gap year This course will likely be done before completing all necessary course work to take MCAT. It is ok if most courses, but not all are completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":259,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/boppkl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}