Pre-PT admissions strategy
Stop guessing. Know what to do next.
Cohorted turns your profile, verified program data, and current research into one clear next step — not a probability score, and not another app to babysit.
Free to start — no credit card required.
The problem
Applying is less about ability, and more about information.
Most pre-PT students aren't stuck because they aren't capable. They're stuck because the information they need is scattered, inconsistent, and hard to act on.
Requirements live in twenty tabs
GRE policy on one page, prerequisites on another, deadlines somewhere else — and half of it is out of date.
Every program lists things differently
Comparing schools means translating each one's format by hand before you can even start comparing.
It's unclear what actually moves the needle
More hours? A new setting? A stronger essay? Without a clear signal, it's easy to work on the wrong thing.
Generic advice doesn't know your profile
Forums and general checklists can't account for where you already stand or what you're missing.
What is Cohorted?
One strategy layer, built around what you actually need next.
Cohorted isn't a second PTCAS, and it isn't a chatbot. It's a small set of tools that work off the same source of truth — your profile — so the advice you get is always specific to you.
Your profile
Courses, hours, GPA, test scores — one place, always current.
Verified program data
Requirements and deadlines, each with a source and a status.
Next Action Engine
A ranked, explained recommendation — not a guess.
AI Advisor
Grounded in your profile and real program data.
Opportunities
Ways to build the experience your profile is missing.
Priorities
Your next action, ranked and explained.
The Next Action Engine looks at your full profile against your target programs and tells you the single highest-value thing to work on next — with the reasoning shown, not hidden.
- Weighs importance, urgency, reach, and effort — a real algorithm, not hardcoded advice.
- Surfaces one clear top priority at a time, so nothing competes for your attention.
- Always explains why — what it's based on, and what would change it.
Highest-value next step
Log research exposure before your next application deadline
Why: most of your saved programs weight research experience, and your profile has none logged yet.
Log an experience →
Also worth doing
Log your GRE plan
Add a fourth target program
Priorities — conceptual example
Illustrative student state and resulting priority — not real footage. Loops automatically.
Advisor
Ask a question. Get a grounded answer.
The Advisor combines your profile, a school's actual requirements, and current program research to reason through a specific question — like what to strengthen before you apply to a school you just added.
- Reads your profile and your target programs' verified requirements before it answers.
- Cites what it's basing an answer on, instead of asserting it as fact.
- Answers your question — it doesn't write your essays or predict your odds.
Advisor — conceptual example
Conceptual conversation — not an actual product recording.
Opportunities
Discover ways to build what you're missing.
Once you know your gap — a setting you haven't shadowed in, a hands-on-hours shortfall — Cohorted helps you find and track real opportunities to close it.
- Surfaces clinics, research, and volunteer settings relevant to gaps in your profile.
- Tracks outreach and reporting as real actions, not a static list to lose track of.
- Grows as students report back, instead of going stale the way a shared spreadsheet does.
Outpatient orthopedic hours
Local outpatient ortho clinic
Shadowing · 4.2 mi
Community sports medicine practice
Volunteer · 7.8 mi
Opportunities — conceptual example
Illustrative gap and matching results — not real footage.
See it on the map
Same map, real Opportunities page
Opportunities plot on the same map view you'd see inside Cohorted, color-coded by whether they're confirmed to be currently accepting students.
Illustrative layout — pin positions here aren't real locations. The legend and colors match the real map exactly.
How it all connects
From where you stand to what to do next.
Every tool in Cohorted draws from the same profile, so the path from question to action stays short.
Where am I?
Your profile — courses, hours, scores, target schools.
What's missing?
Compared against verified program requirements.
What should I do?
The Next Action Engine and Advisor reason through it.
Take the step.
One clear action — and it updates as your profile does.
DPT school research
Build and compare your school list on verified information.
Search programs, save the ones you're considering, and compare requirements and deadlines side by side. Where third-party rankings exist, Cohorted shows them as sourced external statistics — never as a Cohorted-generated score.
Example program fact
- Min. prerequisite GPA
- 3.0
- Application deadline
- Oct 1, 2026
- Est. total program cost
- $118,400
- 1
Source cited
Every fact links back to where it came from.
- 2
Retrieval date stamped
You can see exactly how current it is.
- 3
Verification status shown
Verified, pending review, or flagged — never presented as settled fact by default.
The rest of the platform
A complete strategy platform, not just three tools.
Priorities, Advisor, and Opportunities sit on top of the rest of Cohorted — searching, saving, and comparing schools, and a library of resources for the parts of applying that aren't about calculations at all.
Search, save, compare
Search DPT programs, save the ones you're considering to your list, and compare their requirements and deadlines side by side.
Resources
A curated library for the parts of applying that a profile or a school list can't cover on their own — organized around where you are in the process.
Why Cohorted is different
What we believe admissions software should do.
These aren't rules about other tools — they're commitments we're holding ourselves to.
No acceptance odds.
Admissions outcomes depend on things no algorithm can see. We won't pretend otherwise with a made-up percentage.
No black-box score.
"Profile completeness" is a data metric you can inspect. Priority labels come with a plain-language reason, every time.
No guessing.
Program facts carry a source and a verification status, so you know what's confirmed and what's still pending.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you need more.
You can explore Cohorted and build your profile before deciding whether Complete is worth it.
Cohorted Complete
- Everything in Free
- Full personalized priorities
- Full AI Advisor access
- Opportunities discovery
- Essay & story workshop
- Advanced personalization
Founder
Built by someone who went through it.
Aidan Dickson is a first-year DPT student at the University of Delaware. He built Cohorted after living through the same scattered, hard-to-verify application process it's meant to fix.
Learn moreFAQ
Common questions.
Is Cohorted affiliated with PTCAS?
No. Cohorted is an independent strategy layer built around your application, not a replacement for PTCAS. You'll still submit your application through PTCAS.
Does Cohorted predict my chance of admission?
No, and it never will. Cohorted doesn't produce acceptance-probability scores. It shows you a data-completeness percentage and clearly labeled priorities — never a made-up admissions odds number.
Where does program information come from?
Every program fact, requirement, deadline, and statistic in Cohorted is tied to a source and a retrieval date, and carries a verification status. Nothing is presented as settled fact without that.
What's included for free?
Your profile, school search and comparison, resources, and a limited view of your personalized priorities. Cohorted Complete unlocks the full priorities engine, Advisor, Opportunities, and essay workshop.
Is my data private?
Your profile is yours. It's used to generate your own recommendations and isn't shared or sold. See the Privacy Policy for the full details.
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