SOPHAS Application Guide: Fees, Dates, Verification

SOPHAS Application Guide: Fees, Dates, and Verification (2026-2027 Cycle)

The short version. SOPHAS is a centralized application service for US schools and programs of public health: you complete one core application and send it to as many programs as you want to pay for. The 2026-2027 cycle opened August 12, 2026 and closes August 2, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET. It costs $155 for your first program and $65 for each additional program. After you submit, your application has to be verified before your programs see it, and verification takes up to 10 business days in the official language and longer than that at the peak — which is why a December 1 deadline is really a late October decision.

Everything below was read off an official SOPHAS help page on August 19, 2026, and every claim is linked in the sources. Where the official pages publish nothing — and there is one important place where they publish nothing — this guide says so instead of filling the gap. Where a school's page contradicts the platform, both are quoted with the school named.

If you are here for the writing rather than the logistics, the companion pieces are the MPH personal statement guide for the SOPHAS cycle and the annotated MPH personal statement examples.

What SOPHAS actually is

SOPHAS is a centralized application service. You build one core application — biographic information, every school you attended, every course you took, recommendations, experiences — and that core is shared with every program you add. Each program then layers its own requirements on top, in a section called Program Materials.

Two organizations sit behind it, and knowing which is which saves you time when you go looking for a rule. The applicant help center, where every operational rule in this guide comes from, is published by Liaison International, the vendor that runs the platform. The codes of conduct you agree to when you submit are published by ASPPH, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health; the application's own Release Statement hyperlinks out to them. When you cannot find a rule in the help center, the reason is usually that it is not a platform rule at all — it belongs to your program.

That distinction is the single most useful thing to understand about this application, and it is the reason so much confidently-stated advice about SOPHAS is wrong. Read on for the clearest example, which is the essay.

The 2026-2027 cycle calendar

SOPHAS publishes five hard dates for this cycle:

Read those as the outer walls of the cycle, not as your deadline. Programs set their own dates well inside that window — many in December and January, several in October and November, and some run rolling or priority rounds that reward a complete file early. Because verification happens after you submit and takes real time, the platform's close date is the last date that could possibly matter to anyone, and almost certainly not a date relevant to you.

If you are also applying to MSW programs on the parallel track, that platform runs on a different calendar entirely — see SocialWorkCAS: what to do before it opens.

What SOPHAS costs

Some programs also charge their own supplemental fees, which SOPHAS does not collect and does not publish; the help center tells you to contact the programs directly.

If you have seen $150 and $60, those are stale. Those numbers are still circulating on university admissions pages and in search results, including on pages that currently rank for this exact question. The live official fee page says $155 and $65.

Three money rules that are easy to miss and impossible to undo:

• "SOPHAS does not offer applicant refunds for any reason." That sentence is on the program-deletion page, and it is unconditional.
• You cannot remove a program after you submit to it. "Once you submit your application to a program, you cannot remove it." To withdraw, you contact the program directly — the fee stays spent.
• PTE fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. They also "cannot be transferred to another cycle," and "fee waivers and coupon codes are not available for PTE."

The practical consequence is that your program list should be settled before you submit, not curated afterward. A speculative $65 add is a permanent $65.

The fee waiver, and its 14-day clock

The Fee Assistance Program covers only the initial $155. As the help page puts it, each waiver "covers only the initial application fee, so if you wish to apply to additional programs, you are responsible for the remaining balance." In practice that is one free program, not a free application list.

Four operational details matter more than the eligibility rules:

1. Waivers are limited and first-come, first-served. "Beginning at the start of the cycle, a limited number of fee waivers are provided to qualified applicants on a first-come, first-served basis." Early in the cycle is the only good time to ask, and the cycle opened August 12.
2. You must request the waiver before you submit. There is no retroactive application.
3. Processing takes up to 10 business days.
4. Approval starts a hard clock. "If you are approved for a fee waiver, you are required to submit your application within 14 days," including holidays and weekends, and extensions will not be granted. Miss it and the waiver is void.

That last rule is the one that catches people, and it inverts the usual advice. Do not request a waiver the moment the cycle opens unless your application is close to submittable, because approval converts a comfortable timeline into a two-week deadline that will not move. Note also that only one waiver type is available per cycle, and a waiver from a previous cycle does not carry over.

Eligibility runs through three routes.

Financial, using your 2025 Federal Income Tax Form 1040, against adjusted gross income thresholds that scale with family size:

Service, covering AmeriCorps, active and veteran military service, the Bonner Program, Gates Millennium Scholars, the Leadership Alliance, McNair Scholars, Peace Corps volunteers, and the Vietnam Education Foundation.

International, for applicants who are citizens of and currently reside in a United Nations Least Developed Country.

Accepted payment methods at submission are credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover), PayPal, Venmo, and Flywire. Coupon codes are applied at submission and cannot be redeemed afterward; if a coupon exceeds your total, "SOPHAS will not issue credits or carry remaining balances forward."

The four sections

SOPHAS asks you to complete four core sections:

1. Personal Information — "your biographic and contact information, as well as citizenship, race/ethnicity, and other family information."
2. Academic History — "the high schools and colleges you attended, as well as any coursework completed," plus "tests you have taken or plan to take, such as the GRE, MCAT, or TOEFL."
3. Supporting Information — recommendations, experiences, achievements, licenses and certifications, and documents.
4. Program Materials — "additional application requirements" for the specific programs you selected, plus "important information about each program you are applying to, including deadline requirements."

The first three are the core application, shared across every program you apply to. The fourth is configured by each program separately, and it is where almost all of the variation in your workload lives.

Academic History takes the longest, and PTE does not save calendar time

Two things about this section surprise applicants.

The first is that you enter your coursework yourself, course by course, term by term, exactly as it appears on your transcripts. If you attended three institutions across two countries, this is an afternoon, not a coffee break.

The second is that you can pay to have it done for you. Professional Transcript Entry (PTE) is priced by transcript count, per the table above. Four caveats sit on the same page:

• PTE only covers completed coursework from accredited institutions. Foreign coursework and planned or in-progress courses you must enter yourself — and once you have paid, you cannot add planned or in-progress courses until verification concludes.
• Fee waivers and coupon codes do not apply to PTE, and PTE fees are non-refundable.
• Once all requirements are met, "it may take up to 10 business days for transcript entry to be completed" — with up to another 10 business days for verification after that.
• SOPHAS states plainly that it is "not responsible for missed deadlines due to PTE procedures or turnaround times."

PTE saves you the typing. It does not save you time on the calendar; if anything, it adds a queue. If you are using it against a December deadline, order it in October at the latest.

Transcripts themselves have their own lag. "On average, it takes up to five business days for your transcript to post to your application from the date we receive it" — and that clock starts when SOPHAS receives it, not when you order it. Transcripts must come directly from the registrar and be addressed to SOPHAS; photocopied, faxed, or Interfolio-held transcripts "are not accepted," and electronic transcripts are only accepted from Parchment and the National Student Clearinghouse. The help page also warns that school-side "processing times vary by school and may take longer towards the end of a semester." Order in August, not in November.

Supporting Information: recommenders have a hard ceiling

The evaluations rules are stricter than most applicants assume:

• You are required to request at least 3 recommendations and may request a maximum of 5.
• Programs differ in how many must be completed: "Some programs only require that 2 of your recommendations are completed while other programs require that 3 recommendations are completed."
• Your FERPA decision — whether to waive your right to review the recommendation — is permanent. The help page is explicit: "Once you make a selection, you can't change it, so consider the choices carefully."
• A submitted request cannot be deleted and resubmitted with corrections. If you entered an email address wrong, you delete the request and re-add it with the correct address.
• You are responsible for chasing them. The system does not notify you about missing recommendations.

Because the ceiling is five and the floor is three, there is no strategy in which you line up eight recommenders and pick the best letters. Choose deliberately, give people lead time, set an evaluator deadline that falls before your earliest program deadline, and match your requests to the programs that need the most completed letters. Our graduate school letters of recommendation guide covers the sequencing and the ask itself.

Program Materials: where your real essay workload hides

This is the section that decides how much writing you owe, and there is no way to learn that in advance. Each program configures its own tabs — Overview, Details, Questions, Documents, and in some cases a Kira Assessment. The official page describes that last one as "a cloud-based, online video screening platform where your programs create virtual interview questions," and notes that "some programs may request or require that you complete a Kira Talent assessment, which is separate from your SOPHAS application."

Four sentences on that page are worth reading slowly:

• "Each program's requirements may vary, so it's important you review this section in detail."
• "Questions may be multiple choice or open-ended text boxes."
• "Some programs require an additional essay."
• "Uploaded documents will only be visible to that specific program."

Three consequences follow. Your total essay workload is unknowable until you have added every program and opened each one's Program Materials section, because extra essays are announced nowhere else. Uploads are program-scoped, so tailoring is real, per-program work rather than a single document sent everywhere. And an "additional essay" is a separate assignment with its own job — not a place to restate your main statement in different words. Our complete statement of purpose question bank covers the recurring shapes those extra questions take.

Two more mechanics from the same page. On formatting: "We suggest using simple formatting, as tabs, italics, multiple spaces, etc., will not be saved." Write in a plain-text-safe way and check what survives the paste. On editing: "Once your application is submitted, you cannot re-upload, update, or edit the documents in any way; however, you can upload new documents (if available)."

Verification: the step that turns a December deadline into an October one

This is the section nobody else on this topic writes, and it is the one that decides whether your cycle is comfortable or frantic.

The status ladder

Your application moves through a fixed sequence of statuses, each with its own published meaning:

Note where "Completed" sits. It does not mean finished — it means in line. And note that Undelivered is a branch off that queue, not a dead end you can ignore: "If significant mistakes are found in your application during the verification process, your application will be undelivered, or returned to you for corrections." SOPHAS does not publish how often that happens, but since verifications run in chronological order, a correction puts you back in line behind everyone who filed while you were fixing it.

What verification is, and how long the platform says it takes

SOPHAS describes verification as "the process used to ensure all of your US and English-Canadian coursework was entered correctly and consistently," achieved "by using your coursework to create a standard set of GPAs, ensuring you are compared to other applicants fairly and equally."

The published queue behavior is one sentence: "Verifications occur in chronological order and can take up to 10 business days to complete."

Chronological order is the operative phrase. The queue lengthens as the cycle fills, and being in it early is worth more than any other scheduling decision you make.

What schools say it takes at the peak

The platform publishes a ceiling. Schools, who watch the queue every year, publish something less comfortable — and they say it in their own words, so here they are with their names attached:

• Boston University School of Public Health: "SOPHAS averages 2-4 weeks for verification of submitted applications," and "during peak times it can take up to four weeks for your application to be verified and electronically submitted to your designated schools/programs." BU then adds its own 1-2 weeks on top.
• University of Michigan School of Public Health: "During peak times, SOPHAS applications can take 4-6 weeks after submission to reach verified status."

Neither figure contradicts the official 10 business days as a processing time; they describe the whole wait, including the transcript and recommendation gaps that keep an application in Received status before the verification clock even starts.

The split that decides your real deadline

Here is the fact that changes what you should do this week: schools do not agree on whether their deadline is a submission deadline or a verified-by deadline. Same calendar date, two different meanings.

• BU says "our published deadlines are for submission to SOPHAS" — submit by the date and you have met it.
• Michigan says the opposite: "We do not receive applications until they are verified," and tells applicants to "leave time for the verification process."
• Vanderbilt states the review condition directly: "In order to be reviewed for admission, your application must have a SOPHAS status of 'complete' or 'verified.'"

There is no platform-wide answer to this, and SOPHAS does not publish one. You have to read your own program's page, and if it is ambiguous, email and ask. Getting it wrong costs you a cycle at that school.

The arithmetic

Stack the official numbers and you get the real lead time:

That is up to 25 business days — roughly five calendar weeks — before a single reader at a single school opens your file, and it assumes your recommenders have already filed and nothing is returned Undelivered. Schools' peak-season figures of four to six weeks are the same number, described from the outside.

So: if your earliest program requires you to be verified by December 1, work backward to a submission in late October. If it only requires you to have submitted by December 1, you still want to be verified before readers start, because rolling programs read in the order files arrive.

Rolling and priority rounds: a pattern, not a rule

Neither SOPHAS nor ASPPH publishes a platform-wide deadline. What exists is a recurring shape at the program level, and it is worth checking for on every program page on your list. Four current examples, all retrieved August 19, 2026:

Two things to take from that table.

The early deadlines are earlier than the reputation. BU's priority date for Fall 2027 is October 15, 2026 — about nine weeks after the cycle opened. If you assumed public health deadlines were a December problem, the calendar disagrees.

Submitting is not the same as being considered in that round. Vanderbilt publishes the cleanest version of this rule: "Applications submitted in SOPHAS on or before the Priority Round deadline, but missing any application requirements... will automatically be moved to the Regular Round." Priority consideration for scholarships is attached to being complete, not to having clicked submit. Combine that with the verification queue and the incentive is unambiguous.

Do not generalize any of these dates to other schools. They are examples of a pattern to look for, not a SOPHAS-wide rule, and every one of them can change between cycles.

What "Complete" actually requires

Submitting is not the finish line. The help center is blunt about it: "Submitting does not mean your application is being reviewed by your programs."

You can submit before everything arrives — "you can submit your application before your transcripts and recommendations are received" — but your application only reaches Complete status when all of the following have happened:

• all official transcripts have been received and posted to your application;
• at least 2 of your recommendations have been completed and submitted;
• any PTE coursework has been approved;
• your fee payment has been received; and
• you have received the submission confirmation email.

Two traps live in that list. The first is that the platform's Complete threshold is two recommendations while your program may require three — meeting the platform bar is not the same as meeting the program bar. The second is that after submission the rules change: you can add new items to certain areas, "but you cannot edit existing entries." Proofread before you submit, not after.

The essay: what SOPHAS names, and what it does not publish

Here is the single most misunderstood fact about this application.

SOPHAS names the essay. Its Quick Start Guide lists, under the preparation steps to take prior to starting, the instruction to "Begin drafting your statement of purpose and objectives (personal essay)." That parenthesis collapses two genre labels that mean different things in most of graduate admissions — a distinction our statement of purpose vs personal statement guide unpacks — and it is the closest thing to an official description of the artifact.

SOPHAS does not publish a prompt, and it does not publish a word or character limit. We re-checked every plausible location in the applicant help center on August 19, 2026: the Quick Start Guide, the index of all four sections, the whole Supporting Information tree including its Documents page, every Personal Information child page, Program Materials, and the status and submission pages. There is no personal statement section in Supporting Information at all, no document-type list, and no published length rule anywhere.

This matters because confident numbers circulate. The most common is a 1,500-character figure, usually presented as the SOPHAS limit. It traces to a 2014-era SOPHAS application system whose host no longer resolves; it survives only as stale text in search indexes, describing software that has been retired. Other numbers in circulation trace either to a single school's page — a school's rule, quoted without the school's name — or to commercial blogs with no source at all.

What programs actually publish

Here is what five current program pages say, each retrieved August 19, 2026. Note the spread, and note that two of these are the same 1,000-word cap arrived at independently:

Harvard's phrasing makes the hierarchy explicit and is worth quoting whenever someone tells you what "the SOPHAS limit" is: the school caps its statement at 600 words although SOPHAS allows for a higher word count. A platform allowance never overrides a school rule.

Look at the UW row again, too. Four separate essays with four separate limits, one of which is 200 words — that is a workload you will not discover until you open that program's Program Materials tab. This is what "unknowable in advance" means in practice.

The working rules that follow are simple:

1. Never treat one school's wording or limit as "the SOPHAS prompt."
2. The current prompt and limit your program publishes control your draft. Paste both above your document and keep them there while you write.
3. If a portal field shows a technical maximum, that is a ceiling, not a target.

For the writing method that follows from all this, see the MPH personal statement guide, and for how length actually changes an argument rather than just trimming it, the statement of purpose length and word count guide.

What we could not verify today

Three things, stated plainly, because a guide that hides its gaps is worse than one that names them.

The ASPPH codes of conduct. The Liaison Release Statement page confirms that applicants are "expected and required to take full responsibility for their application throughout the admissions process and required to abide by the SOPHAS Applicant Professional Code of Conduct and Admissions Code of Conduct," and it hyperlinks both out to ASPPH. Every ASPPH URL we tried on August 19, 2026 returned a 403 to automated retrieval, so we cannot quote the code text here. Open it in a browser and read it before you check the acknowledgement box — it is the document that governs integrity questions, including how your statement was produced.

sophas.org. The sophas.org domain also returned a 403 to automated retrieval on August 19, 2026, so we cannot quote anything it publishes. Nothing in this guide is sourced to it; everything above comes from the applicant help center, which is the operational document anyway.

Accreditation counts. CEPH's accredited-program figures change through the year, and the counts circulating in search results contradict each other. We are not going to publish an accredited-programs count here; read the current list on the source page, and you should be skeptical of any article that does.

A working timeline for a December 1 deadline

1. Now. Create the account, add every program, and open each one's Program Materials section. Write down every question, every additional essay, and every limit. Also write down, for each program, whether its deadline is a submission deadline or a verified-by deadline.
2. Now. Request transcripts from every institution you have attended, including dual-enrollment and study-abroad credit. Budget five business days for each to post after SOPHAS receives it, and more at the end of a semester.
3. Now. Ask your recommenders. You need at least three requests and can make at most five; decide the FERPA question before you send the first one, because it cannot be changed. Set the evaluator deadline before your earliest program deadline.
4. Now, if you need it. Check fee-assistance eligibility — but do not submit the waiver request until your application is nearly ready, because approval starts a 14-day submission clock that will not be extended.
5. September. Enter coursework, or order PTE and budget up to 10 business days for entry before verification can even begin.
6. September and October. Draft to the tightest published limit on your list. Expanding a disciplined 500-word statement is easier than cutting a comfortable 1,000-word one, and the tables above show that both exist on real program pages this cycle.
7. Mid-to-late October. Submit, so that up to 10 business days of verification — or the four to six weeks schools describe at the peak — still lands inside a December 1 deadline. If any program on your list has an October or November priority round, this step moves earlier still.
8. Before you submit. Reconfirm every date, prompt, fee, and limit against the live application and your program's own page. The portal governs, and everything on this page can change between cycles.

Where a review fits in that timeline

The right moment for outside feedback is step 6 — after your draft answers your program's actual prompt, and before you spend a recommender's or an advisor's attention on a first pass.

The MPH personal statement rubric reads your own writing against the prompt and limit you paste above it, looking for a specific public health direction, preparation actually interpreted for population health, a real reason the degree comes next, and program fit where the prompt asks for it. Other master's rubrics sit in the graduate rubric catalog, and the graduate statement of purpose review page explains how a review runs. Two Quick Reviews are free each day; your first Full Review is $5, once per account, and Pro is $50 for ten Full Reviews. How a review of one of these statements actually works sets out the mechanics — what it reads, what it never sees, and where a program's own rule stops it.

Two limits worth naming. Scores are revision signals, not admissions predictions — no review, human or otherwise, forecasts a committee's decision. And program rules on outside or AI-assisted help vary, and they govern: our AI policy reference for MPH, MSW, and counseling programs collects the current program-level wording verbatim, including the strictest rules in the set, and can you use AI on an MSW or MPH essay walks the decision.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the SOPHAS application cost?

$155 for the first program and $65 for each additional program, as of August 19, 2026. Professional Transcript Entry, if you use it, is $85 for 1-3 transcripts, $110 for 4-6, and $160 for 7 or more. Individual programs may add supplemental fees that SOPHAS does not collect. There are no refunds "for any reason."

When does SOPHAS open and close?

The 2026-2027 cycle opened August 12, 2026 and closes August 2, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET. All processing ends August 6, 2027 at 5 PM ET. Those are platform walls, not deadlines — your programs' own dates sit well inside them, some as early as October.

How long does SOPHAS verification take?

The official figure is "up to 10 business days," processed in chronological order, and it starts only once your application reaches Complete status. Schools describe the real-world wait at the peak as longer: BU publishes "2-4 weeks" and Michigan publishes "4-6 weeks after submission to reach verified status." Add up to 5 business days for each transcript to post, and up to 10 more if you use Professional Transcript Entry.

Is there a SOPHAS fee waiver?

Yes — the Fee Assistance Program, which covers only the initial $155. It is limited in number and awarded first-come, first-served, must be requested before you submit, takes up to 10 business days to process, and obliges you to submit within 14 days of approval with no extensions. Eligibility runs through a financial route with AGI thresholds by family size, a service route, and an international route.

Does SOPHAS have a personal statement word limit?

No. SOPHAS names the essay — "your statement of purpose and objectives (personal essay)" — but publishes no prompt and no word or character limit anywhere in its applicant help center. Any specific number you have been told is either your program's rule or someone else's program's rule. Current published program limits range from 500 to 1,000 words, and Harvard's page says its own 600-word cap applies "although SOPHAS allows for a higher word count."

Can I submit before my transcripts and recommendations arrive?

Yes. "You can submit your application before your transcripts and recommendations are received," but your application will sit in Received status and will not enter the verification queue until everything is in. Since verification is chronological, submitting early with materials outstanding does not buy you a place in line.

Can I add or remove a program after submitting?

You can add programs, and you pay $65 for each. You cannot remove one: "Once you submit your application to a program, you cannot remove it," and there is no refund. To withdraw from consideration, contact the program directly.

What does SOPHAS actually standardize?

Coursework and GPA calculation, the recommendation request mechanism, transcript intake, and the fee structure. It does not standardize essays, prompts, word limits, deadlines, the number of completed recommendations a program requires, or whether a program reads on a rolling basis. Everything on that second list lives in Program Materials or on your program's own page.

Related reading

• MPH personal statement guide for the SOPHAS cycle
• Public Health Personal Statement Examples (MPH)
• MPH, MSW, and counseling essay review: how it works — the mechanics of an outside read on one of these statements
• Statement of purpose vs personal statement
• Statement of purpose length and word count guide
• The complete statement of purpose question bank
• US graduate SOP requirements: the comprehensive guide
• Professional master's SOPs: MBA, MEng, and MPH
• SocialWorkCAS opens in September: what to do now — the parallel cycle for MSW applicants
• AI policies at MPH, MSW, and counseling programs

Sources

All retrieved August 19, 2026. Dates, fees, and processing times change between cycles and between programs; confirm each against the live application and your program's own page before you rely on it.

Official SOPHAS applicant help center (Liaison International)

• Application cycle dates — the five 2026-2027 dates in the calendar table
• Application fees — $155 first program, $65 each additional; the Fee Assistance Program, its 14-day clock, its AGI thresholds, service and international routes, payment methods, and coupon rules
• SOPHAS Quick Start Guide — the statement-of-purpose-and-objectives instruction; no prompt or limit published
• Deleting SOPHAS programs — no removal after submission; "SOPHAS does not offer applicant refunds for any reason"
• Filling out your SOPHAS application — the four core sections and their descriptions
• Professional Transcript Entry — PTE pricing, exclusions, non-refundability, and the 10-business-day entry window
• US and English-Canadian transcripts — five business days to post; accepted electronic vendors; what is not accepted
• Evaluations — minimum of 3, maximum of 5, programs requiring 2 versus 3, and the irreversible FERPA choice
• Program Materials — varying requirements, additional essays, program-scoped uploads, the Kira Talent assessment, and the formatting note
• SOPHAS Release Statement — the full-responsibility sentence and the hyperlinks to the ASPPH codes of conduct
• Submitting and completing your application — Complete-status requirements, payment methods, post-submission editing limits, and "submitting does not mean your application is being reviewed"
• Check your SOPHAS notifications and status — the In Progress / Received / Completed / Verified / Undelivered ladder
• What is verification? — the definition, the chronological queue, up to 10 business days, and the Undelivered branch

Program pages, quoted with the school named

• Boston University School of Public Health — Applying — the October 15, 2026 domestic priority deadline, rolling review, "SOPHAS averages 2-4 weeks for verification," and "our published deadlines are for submission to SOPHAS"
• University of Michigan SPH — MPH/MHSA application checklist — "4-6 weeks after submission to reach verified status," "we do not receive applications until they are verified," and the 1,000-word maximum. Browser-only; blocks automated retrieval, read via text proxy
• Columbia Mailman — Application components — the 500-word statement, with the Health Policy and Management exception
• Columbia Mailman — Deadlines — rolling acceptance until January 15 and the December 1 preferred deadline
• Harvard T.H. Chan — Application requirements — the 600-word cap "although SOPHAS allows for a higher word count," and the own-work expectation
• Vanderbilt MPH — SOPHAS application tips — the complete-or-verified review condition, the Priority-to-Regular Round auto-move, and the 1,000-word statement
• University of Washington — Online MPH admissions — the September 1, 2026 open, January 15 priority and April 1 general deadlines, rolling space-available admission, and four required essays with separate limits

Not retrievable on August 19, 2026

• aspph.org, including the SOPHAS code of conduct pages — 403 to automated retrieval, including via text proxy. Read in a browser.
• sophas.org — 403 to automated retrieval. Nothing here is sourced to it.
• CEPH accredited-program listings (ceph.org) — count changes through the year; no count published here.