
Admissions Information
Requirements
Students must meet University admission requirements, as well as requirements for admission to the degree, listed below.
- Meet the technical standards for admission or show potential for accomplished tasks
- Undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited college or university
- Minimum of 3.0 GPA from undergraduate coursework
- Personal statement in 1000 words or less describing primary career goals, most direct influence on choice to become an Athletic Trainer, your attributes related to the field of Athletic Training, and why you should be selected to the Athletic Training major
- Three (3) letters of recommendation
- Personal interview with the UNCW Athletic Training faculty and staff (via Zoom or in person)
- Must complete a secondary application with ATCAS
Technical Standards for Admission, Academic Progression and Graduation
Athletic Training education requires that the accumulation of scientific knowledge be accompanied by the simultaneous acquisition of skills, professional attitudes, and behaviors. Standards presented here are prerequisite for admission and graduation from the University of North Carolina Wilmington Athletic Training Program (the “Program”). All courses in the Program curriculum are required in order to develop the essential skills necessary to become a competent practitioner.
All candidates must have aptitude, abilities, and skills in each of the five skill areas specified below. Technological compensation can be made for some handicaps in these skill areas, but a candidate should be able to perform in a reasonably independent manner. The use of a trained intermediary would mean that a candidate's judgment must be mediated by someone else's power of selection and observation. Therefore, third parties cannot be used to assist students in accomplishing curricular requirements in the five skill areas specified below. Reasonable accommodation can be made, as appropriate, as long as the integrity of the Program is upheld.
The University of North Carolina Wilmington is committed to the principles of equitable and accessible education and to providing reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities. The Program endeavors to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities who apply for admission and are enrolled as athletic training students.
Should, despite reasonable accommodation (whether the candidate chooses to use the accommodation or not), a candidate’s existing or acquired disability(ies) interfere with patient or peer safety, or otherwise impede their ability to complete the Program’s educational program and advance to graduation or certification, the candidate may be denied admission or may be separated or dismissed from the program.
The Program will consider for admission any applicant who demonstrates the ability to perform or to learn to perform the skills listed in this above. Students will be judged not only on their scholastic accomplishments, but also on their physical and emotional capacities to meet the full requirements of the Program curriculum, and to graduate as skilled and effective practitioners.
Candidates are asked to address the following questions in consideration of these technical standard requirements:
- Is the candidate able to reasonably observe demonstrations and participate in skill laboratories?
- Is the candidate able to reasonably analyze, synthesize, extrapolate, solve problems and reach diagnostic and therapeutic judgments?
- Does the candidate have reasonably sufficient use of the senses of vision and hearing and the somatic sensation necessary to perform an assessment examination?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to relate to patients and establish sensitive, professional relationships with patients?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to communicate the results of the examination to the patient and to his or her colleagues with accuracy, clarity and efficiency?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to learn and perform assessment tests and procedures?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to perform with precise, quick and appropriate actions in emergency situations?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to display good judgment in the assessment and treatment of patients?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to possess the perseverance, diligence, and consistency to complete the Athletic Training Program curriculum and enter the practice of Athletic Training?
- Can the candidate reasonably be expected to accept criticism and respond by appropriate modification of behavior?
Students with Disabilities
UNCW is committed to the principles of equitable and accessible education and to providing reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities. Students with disabilities apply under the same guidelines as other students. If a student feels a disability has had an impact on grades, course choice or standardized admission test scores, the student may request consideration of this in the admissions process. Documentation of the disability and its relationship to the failure to satisfy a specific UNCW requirement should be submitted with the application for admission.
The UNCW Disability Resource Center coordinates learning assistance to eligible students with disabilities. Course related assistance and accommodations such as reader services, interpreters, alternative exam administration, note takers and adaptive equipment are available through this office.
Applications open from August 1, 2020 to April 15, 2021.
Important Notice
UNCW has transitioned our Bachelor of Arts in Athletic Training degree to a post-baccalaureate professional degree beginning as of summer of 2020. The last class of students are in the undergraduate program and applications are no longer being accepted.
Questions?
Contact Dr. Steve Zinder, Program Coordinator