In general:

• Answer all the essay questions as clearly as possible. Use details to fully illustrate your experiences, but keep the essays on topic and relevant to a college application.
• Proofread and edit your essays for content as well as writing quality (grammar, punctuation, spelling, and conventions).
• Ask your references to send personalized letters that speak to the skills you have which will lend to your success not just in this program, but also in this profession.

There are many opportunities to demonstrate your desire to pursue midwifery and your commitment to a Birthingway education:

• Read as many birth, doula, and midwifery books and journals as you can.
• Attend birth, doula, and midwifery conferences.
• Join local birth, doula, and midwifery groups.
• Take classes or workshops on midwifery-related topics.
• Attend births as a labor doula.
• Become trained in, and offer classes on, childbirth education.
• Shadow a direct-entry midwife.
• Take a direct-entry midwife out to dinner to learn about her experiences in the field.
• Take a nurse midwife, naturopathic midwife or any other kind of midwife out to dinner to learn about their experiences in the field.
• Spend time in the Birthingway community – meet with our Midwifery Program Coordinator, sit in on a class, take a course, or browse our library.

And then tell us about all these things you’ve done to learn about, decide on, and prepare for this path!