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Student Selection

Boise State University has a 4-year Bachelor of Science degree program in Diagnostic Radiology with a competitive application process. The student capacity per year is 30-40 individuals.

Initial Criteria

  1. Completion of the 30 credits of required prerequisite courses (or equivalent) by the end of the spring semester of the application year. (Students must be registered for these courses at the time of application)
  2. A minimum of 2.7 GPA for the 27 credits of the required prerequisite courses. (FA and FH electives must be completed, but not included in GPA compilation) Grades are to be based on at least 13 credits of prerequisite courses. Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.7.
  3. Completion of a program application by March 1 of the application year, to include a current transcript, letter of intent, and three references.

How Applications are Evaluated

To ensure an equitable admission process, all application packets are evaluated and scored in the following manner.  Faculty are not included in any of the following processes which involve scoring to eliminate subjectivity and conflict of interest.

  1. Grades earned for prerequisite courses are calculated using the university grading system as outlined in the university catalog.  If a prerequisite course is repeated, the highest grade earned is used to calculate prerequisite GPA (regardless of where the class was taken).  In order to ensure that the grades for applicants are evaluated in an equitable manner, only completed prerequisite course grades are used.  This ensures that students with many credits completed or those who have earned a previous degree do not have an unfair advantage over students with only the minimum required courses completed.  Prerequisite course grades are evaluated to avoid penalizing students who “had a bad semester or year” which lowered their cumulative GPA.
  2. Reference survey forms are tallied with each Likert scale question having a 5 point maximum value.  There is a total of 80 points per reference form.  Three reference survey forms are averaged to arrive at one reference score for each applicant.
  3. Letter of Intent:  each letter is read by volunteer medical imaging professionals and scored using the Letter of Intent Rubric.  To ensure impartiality, the letters are deidentified.  Scores from the letters are averaged to arrive at one letter of intent score for each applicant.
  4. The prerequisite GPA, reference score and letter of intent score are entered into a program applicant spreadsheet.  Each category is weighted; prerequisite GPA has the highest weighting factor.
  5. Those applicants with the highest overall scores are invited for an interview.

Interview Process & Final Cohort Selection

  1. The interview panel consists of volunteer medical imaging professionals (separate from those who read the applicant letters of intent). To avoid subjectivity and conflict of interest, faculty are not included in the candidate interview scoring.
  2. All applicants invited for an interview are asked the same 10 questions, in the same order, by the same interviewer.
  3. Applicant responses are scored using a Likert scale on the Interview Scoring Rubric.  Scores are tallied and averaged to create one interview score per applicant.
  4. This final score is entered into the program applicant spreadsheet, replacing each applicant reference survey score.
  5. Applicants with the highest overall final score are invited to accept a seat in the program.
  6. The number of students admitted per year is limited by clinical site availability.

For the 2025 application process:

  • 161 completed applications were received by the deadline.
  • Thirty-five of the applicants had previously applied to the program (reapplicant).
  • There were 27 (17%) male and 134 (83%) female applicants.

Secondary Criteria:

The applicants were selected for an interview based on prerequisite GPA, letter of application analysis and reference analysis. The top 75 individuals were invited for an interview. Fourteen (19%) males and 61 (81%) females were interviewed.  Admission Letter Rubric

First-Time Applicants

  • 126 total eligible first-time applicants (21 males, 105 females)
  • 32 total first-time applicants accepted (5 males, 27 females)

Reapplicants

  • 19 total eligible reapplicants (5 male, 14 females)
  • 8 total accepted reapplicants (2 Male, 6 females)

Statistics of the 75 applicants interviewed

Total # of Applicants Interviewed Interview Scoring Rubric

  • First-time applicants: 56 interviewed, 29 accepted
  • Reapplicants: 19 interviewed, 8 accepted

Applicant GPA Between 3.5 and 4.0

  • First-time applicants: 49 interviewed, 18 accepted
  • Reapplicants: 14 interviewed, 7 accepted

Applicant GPA of 3.499 and below

  • First-time applicants: 18 interviewed, 11 accepted
  • Reapplicants: 5 interviewed, 1 accepted

Male/Female Candidate

  • First-time applicants: 8 males, 42 females interviewed; 4 male, 25 females accepted
  • Reapplicants: 5 males, 14 females interviewed; 2 male, 6 females accepted

GPA Range

  • First-time applicants: 2.87  – 4.0
  • Reapplicants: 2.83 – 3.82

Minimum GPA Accepted

  • First-time applicants: 2.88
  • Reapplicants: 3.36

Average GPA Accepted

  • First-time applicants: 3.57
  • Reapplicants: 3.59

Baccalaureate Degree

Ten interviewed students had previously completed a baccalaureate degree. Six of those were offered a seat.

Alternate List

A total of 9 applicants were placed on the alternate list.

Delayed Acceptance

Seven students were offered delayed acceptance for 2026.

Educational Institutions

Applicants have attended a wide variety of educational institutions throughout the United States. The most commonly attended colleges and universities include:

  • BSU
  • CWI
  • NNU
  • CSI
  • U of I
  • ISU
  • Numerous colleges in California, Oregon and Washington

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