Your application starts years before you apply.
Every prerequisite, every patient care hour and every letter, tracked as you go against what the PA programmes on your list actually require. Then CASPA opens and it is already filled in, with a clock running on each deadline so the week you lose is never the week that cost you a seat.
$11.99 a month, or $239.99 once for five years. No free tier and no trial, whether you are a sophomore or mid-cycle.
What is different here
Built for CASPA, not adapted to it.
Patient care hours are the number PA applications are judged on, and programmes disagree sharply about what counts. Just over half publish a minimum at all, and the median among those is 500 hours, not the 2,000 the forums repeat.
Before the cycle
Four years of small decisions, none of them written down anywhere.
Which course cleared which requirement. How many hours that summer actually came to. Who agreed to write for you. By the time it is asked for, most of it is a reconstruction, and reconstructions are where the mistakes live.
Prerequisites
Not every school wants the same courses.
Pick your PA programmes and Cyclios collapses their published requirements into one list: the strictest version of each subject, with the school that asks for it named. Clear that list and you have cleared all of them.
- Each line shows credits, whether a lab is required, and which schools ask
- Read off each school's own page, never a guess or an average
- A school with nothing published says so, instead of borrowing someone else's list
Coursework
The science GPA is read on its own.
CASPA reports a science average alongside your cumulative, and programmes screen on both. Several also set a floor on the prerequisite courses specifically, which is a third number most applicants never calculate.
- Science and cumulative, kept apart the way the service reports them
- What next term has to average to reach the number you want
- Import a transcript, or type it in once and stop recalculating it
Hours
Hours somebody else will vouch for.
Log them while you remember them. Patient care and healthcare experience kept apart, because CASPA counts them apart and programmes weigh them differently. When it matters, ask a supervisor to confirm the total. They sign once, and their figure is kept apart from yours rather than quietly replacing it.
- Running totals against what programmes actually publish, where they publish one
- A supervisor's attestation is append-only and never edited after signing
- Everything lands pre-written in the CASPA activities section when you apply
Then the cycle
It opens already filled in.
The coursework, hours and letters you have been keeping are the application. What changes is that everything is suddenly on a deadline, and rolling admissions means the deadline is not the date on the website. It is how fast you turn things around.
The clock
It tells you what is late, not what exists.
CASPA does not publish programme deadlines centrally, and they scatter across the year more than any other service's. Forward what a programme sends you to your Cyclios address and the date is recorded against that programme with its source attached.
- Every deadline carries where it came from, never a guessed date
- Supplemental applications tracked per programme, since few are alike
- A programme is done when its essays are in, not when you say so
The essay bank
The same question, a dozen times over.
Prompts repeat. Cyclios groups every school's questions into the type they actually are, so you write one answer per question and adapt it, starting from your own words rather than an empty box.
- Every version of every draft, kept forever
- Search the paragraph you cut in June and forgot
- Each school's real limit, in characters or words, or nothing when nothing is published
Why you can trust it with this
Your application is the most personal thing you own.
Encrypted before it lands
Essays, grades, hours and forwarded mail are encrypted on our side before they reach the database, and are readable only by you.
Never used to train anything
Your work is not training data, is never sold, and is deleted within days of you closing the account.
Never invents a deadline
Every date carries where it came from. A missing date says so rather than showing you a plausible guess.
The requirement lists are public. Every PA school has a page with its prerequisites and the admissions page they were read from, so you can check our reading against the source before you trust it.
The best time to start was your first semester.
The second best is now. Setting it up takes about three minutes, and it is the same account whether you apply next year or in three.
From $11.99 a month. The five-year plan is one payment of $239.99 and never renews.
332 PA programmes tracked, every ARC-PA accredited programme taking applicants.