Prospective Student Events
Open Houses & Webinars
We host several virtual admissions events each year, between June and November. Dates are announced on the website and through Facebook and Instagram in advance of each session.
Please join us for a virtual prospective student event on Tuesday, June 17th at 7:00 PM Eastern time to learn more about the MSGC program at the University of Pennsylvania. Meet Tiff Hartman, PhD, MSGC, our Assistant Program Director. As a graduate of the program, a course director, a thesis mentor, and a former clinical supervisor and genetic counselor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (not to mention a former lab-based cancer researcher!), Tiff can share many perspectives on our program and on graduate education in genetic counseling.
Register for this event at https://hosting.med.upenn.edu/forms/zulu/view.php?id=620879.
Video Overview
For an overview of the program and admissions information, please view the video of the slides and audio from this October 2022 admissions event.
Summer Internships
In summer 2025 we are again offering full-time, paid, six-week long (40 hours/week @ $17/hour = $3,600) summer internships for undergraduate students from populations/groups that are under-represented in genetic counseling. Lasting six-weeks (from mid-June to the end of July), this experience provides students interested in a career in genetic counseling with exposure to a broad range of clinical genetics specialties, research and laboratory work, shadowing in multiple clinical settings, and opportunities for one-on-one interviews with genetic counselors and current students.
Click here for detailed information on the internships and how to apply.