Pre-Chiro

The route in, before you apply.

Eight modules, in order, over the two to four years before you apply to chiropractic school.

For someone one to four years out. Often an undergraduate. Sometimes a career-changer. Frequently nobody in their life has done this.

What's available now The eight modules

Most people arrive at chiropractic school having seen one practice. Some have seen none.

You'll spend four years and a great deal of money on a decision you made from one experience.

This is the part before that — where you find out properly.

Hand-drawn roadmap of the Pre-Chiro route: six stations climbing a mountain from Foundation through Skill Development, Apprenticeship, Leadership, Capstone and Apply, ending at chiropractic school — Six stations, eight modules, ending at the day you enroll.

Getting Grounded

What chiropractic actually is, the state of the profession, and whether this is your path. Ends in a decision, not a grade.

Inner S.T.A.T.E.

The five dimensions you'll develop: Scientist, Thinker, Artist, Teacher, Entrepreneur.

M2.5

Pathways

Fifteen named ways to practice. You visit about five before choosing any.

Apprenticeship

Structured observation in a real practice. Logged hours, and a framework for what to notice.

Club Startup

Fourteen weeks founding and running a pre-chiro club. Deliberately a business simulator.

Capstone

An independent project. Research, a book, a documentary. Something real gets made.

Admissions

The application, the statement, letters, financial planning, campus visits.

M6.5

Transition

Housing, budgeting, study strategy, asking for help. The module nobody writes.

Getting in

Nobody can tell you the requirements. They're different everywhere.

Every site that publishes a single prerequisite table is averaging schools that don't agree with each other. Here's what actually varies, so you know what to look up — and then look it up at the schools you're actually considering, this year, not from a page written three years ago.

Science courseworkBiology, chemistry and physics with labs are near-universal. Which ones, how many credits, and whether anatomy, physiology or biochemistry are required or merely recommended — that's where schools diverge.

Credit hoursSome programs admit before a degree is finished. Some prefer one. The threshold and whether a bachelor's is required or advantageous is a per-school answer.

GPAThere is a stated minimum and there is what an admitted class actually looks like, and they are rarely the same number. Ask for both. Science GPA is often weighted separately.

Course recencySome schools expire older prerequisite coursework. If you're a career-changer, this is the first thing to ask and the one most likely to surprise you.

Observation hoursRarely a hard requirement. Almost always the thing that makes an application make sense — and the thing that tells you whether you want this.

Application timingOpening dates, deadlines, interview windows and deposit dates differ by school and change year to year. Get them from the school, in writing, for your cycle.

Module 6 is the one that walks this properly — the application, the personal statement, letters, financial planning, campus visits, and how to get a straight answer out of an admissions office.

The part that changed this year

The borrowing arithmetic is different than it was.

Grad PLUS ended for new borrowers on July 1, 2026. Federal borrowing for professional programs is now capped — $50,000 a year and $200,000 in total. Most advice circulating about paying for chiropractic school was written under the old rules.

It isn't wrong so much as out of date, and out-of-date advice about a six-figure decision is the expensive kind. The number that matters isn't tuition — it's the gap between what you can borrow and what the whole path costs, written down once, with whoever is helping you pay for it.

The shape of it

Two to four years, and what each one is for.

Not a schedule. Dates differ by school and by cycle. But the order rarely changes, and knowing the order is most of what people are missing.

Before

Find out whether you want thisStand in a practice. Then another. The decision is worth more attention than the prerequisites, and almost everyone spends it the other way around.

Early

Build the science foundationThe coursework nearly every school wants, taken in an order that doesn't strand you. And the grades, because they're harder to fix later than to build now.

Middle

See the rangeFifteen named ways to practice. Visit about five before choosing any. This is the year that changes what you're actually applying for.

Later

Make something, and narrow the listAn independent project that exists outside a grade. Schools researched against your own goals rather than a ranking.

Applying

The application itselfStatement, letters, financial planning, interviews. Then the transition nobody writes about — housing, budgeting, study strategy, and asking for help.

What's available now

One module runs in September. The rest are open.

M1, through the founding cohort

One pod. Free.

Thirty-three days on Getting Grounded, with five or six people at your stage, a facilitator who shows up, and a mentor that reads what you hand in.

Starts September 18. You start in the first days of your own term.

A call booked when you apply — not after. It happens whether or not you get a seat.
A weekly review for your pod — what that week is actually for, with everyone in the room speaking.
A mentor that reads what you hand in — and notices if you go quiet.
A written read at the end — what you did across the thirty-three days, and what it suggests next.

Applications close [SET DATE].

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M2 through M6.5, self-paced

Coming soon

Seven modules, built and open

The remaining seven, on your own, whenever you want them. No pod, no facilitator, no cohort.

The cohort is free because it's the first one — not because this stays free forever.

See what's free now

If you don't get a seat

The workshop is free and runs every month.

There will be more applications than seats. The Other Half is an interactive workshop for people considering chiropractic — live on campus, and online monthly. Register and we'll send you the workbook either way.