Steps for Admission to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

1. Meet the college general admissions requirements
2. To include:
   1. Professional resume including any prior post-secondary education
   2. Admissions Essay: The Admissions Essay is of considerable importance and is your opportunity to reveal your best qualities and to show the admissions committee what makes you stand out from other applicants. We are looking for the applicant that knows themselves well, has academic goals and a career direction and can articulate them clearly. Choose a topic that recounts “that moment when” …
      In your own voice, tell a story that reveals a defining moment that helped to shape who you are today and influences who you’ll be tomorrow. In other words, the story should give the admissions committee a real sense of your unique personality, characteristics, and qualities. You can write about pretty much anything – an experience, an inanimate object, a movie, a place, a person – as long as your essay reveals how that experience, thing, movie, place, or person made an impact on you. The Admissions Essay must be typed, approximately 400-500 words, and submitted in proper format for an essay. For help on formatting an essay refer to: http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/format.htm or https://style.mla.org/formatting-papers
   3. Career Specific Questions: In 250 words or less answer the following four questions.
      • • How did you become interested in MRI?
        • Why are you certain that a career as an MRI Technologist is a good career choice?
        • What are the job responsibilities required of an MRI Technologist?
        • What personal qualities should a person possess for this type of career?
   4. A health examination performed by a physician/nurse practitioner/physician’s assistant with immunization history including verification through blood work. No student will be admitted with a disqualifying result or failure to meet the specified deadline provided by the Academic Clinical Coordinator.
   5. Clearance on consumer background report –completed after the start of the program; however, if the criminal background report required discloses violations, even if expunged, the finding may prevent the student from being placed in a clinical externship and the student may be dismissed from the program.
   6. Meet the physical and emotional requirements of an MRI Technologist student and MRI Technologist.
   7. Attend the mandatory on-campus orientation. Dates will be announced. Students who do not attend the entire orientation will forfeit their seat in the Program.

1. Any applicant not meeting all of the general admission and programmatic admission requirements will be denied admission into the program.