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You both are wonderful. Thank you!
I'm taking the same course and haven't completed it yet, so I asked VMCAS. They said that you don't need to send in a transcript for any schools for which you haven't completed a course. But put it on there to show that you're in the process of taking it, and once completed, send the transcript directly your designated schools.
Moving to a new state right before application season is super fun! Everyone should give it a try!
Nice job!Unless I totally read the screen wrong, which would probably happen tell you the truth, I just got 159 V and 160 Q.
I didn't play sports, but was heavily involved in theatre (20+ hours a week normally, and even more on performance weeks), and talked about it a good amount in my application. It was a huge part of my life, a huge commitment, and shaped who I am as a person. I think playing soccer would absolutely be the same!Out of curiosity, has anyone played sports in college? I played division I soccer and i'm trying to figure out how much I should talk about this since it had a significant impact on my college career.
Unless I totally read the screen wrong, which would probably happen tell you the truth, I just got 159 V and 160 Q.
I didn't play sports, but was heavily involved in theatre (20+ hours a week normally, and even more on performance weeks), and talked about it a good amount in my application. It was a huge part of my life, a huge commitment, and shaped who I am as a person. I think playing soccer would absolutely be the same!
Also, some of VMCAS GPA calculations are rough! Haha.
Nice work! You did better than I did, for sure. My best score on the retake was actually a 6 (99%) in Analytical Writing... which no one gives a flying crap about. Naturally. I beat the 50% mark for everything, but I am still super disappointed.
Yeah, they... uh... hurt quite a bit. All I'll say is that it's good that schools use their own GPA calculations because seeing some of the numbers VMCAS came up with literally made me wince.
Nice work! You did better than I did, for sure. My best score on the retake was actually a 6 (99%) in Analytical Writing... which no one gives a flying crap about. Naturally. I beat the 50% mark for everything, but I am still super disappointed.
Yeah, they... uh... hurt quite a bit. All I'll say is that it's good that schools use their own GPA calculations because seeing some of the numbers VMCAS came up with literally made me wince.
I think the analytical writing should be weighted more, based on what I've heard on these forums. The ability to masterfully craft a piece of writing, especially in a short space of time, takes a certain type of smarts. Those smarts are developed through years and years of practice. You can memorize vocab and learn tricks for the quantitative over the course of a month, but I hesitate to say that one can equally improve in such a short period of time on essay writing.
You know that the best predictor for the score for the writing section is the length of your essay and not the content right? It would be a good indicator of ability if and only if the grading actually reflected your abilities... but we're talking about ETS's standard testing graders having that ability...
I dunno, that's what I was told during my prep course back in 2006 or so... probably with Princeton Review. But regardless of whether that is true or not, I absolutely do not believe in ETS's ability to subjectively grade essays in a meaningful way.I'm not entirely sure that's a true statement. Maybe on average, but I've seen high scores on short very short essays. See Magoosh and Manhatten Prep examples.
But regardless of whether that is true or not, I absolutely do not believe in ETS's ability to subjectively grade essays in a meaningful way.
You know that the best predictor for the score for the writing section is the length of your essay and not the content right? It would be a good indicator of ability if and only if the grading actually reflected your abilities... but we're talking about ETS's standard testing graders having that ability...
I dunno, that's what I was told during my prep course back in 2006 or so... probably with Princeton Review. But regardless of whether that is true or not, I absolutely do not believe in ETS's ability to subjectively grade essays in a meaningful way.
Either way, standardized testing is just an unfortunate meh way to eval people as there are very bright people who just suck at them. And this is coming from someone who generally rocks at testing.
Haha, I was thinking exactly of this video.
That video totally reminded me. I totes lost all respect for essay type standardized testing when I got my AP scores back during high school. The prompt for my US History essay was about how FDR saved the US from the Great Depression. I remember reading the question and thinking, "huh, I thought Kennedy was the depression guy, but thanks for the heads up" and wrote something that sounded nice. I got a 5. I grew up in MA so I had stuff prior to 1776 down pretty good, but anything later than that I was like totally clueless. Like, I honestly couldn't have told you what Vietnam or the Korean wars were about, what years they took place in, or who were presidents at the time."Get your number two pencils out!"
I completely skipped one of my AP World History essays and also still passed. I think it was my last AP test of 4 that year, I knew nothing about the topic, and I was just so done.And for one of my AP English prompts I wasn't in the mood for writing essays on the day of the test esp because I was pissed off that I was forced to sit in a church for it. So I drew a picture of multicultural Jesus instead of the essay. I think I still passed it. The whole thing was such a joke.
Combination of AP and IB exams got me 37 credits. It was pretty great. But IB is kind of insane. Pulled more all nighters than I ever did in college.I did both AP U.S. History and AP World... both were jokes. I'm pretty sure that I also skipped at least one of the essays and still got 4 or 5 on them.
And this is coming from the person who just barely graduated high school!
Actually, my school just started offering IB courses. I really wish that they had it while I was still around, because it seems to be held in much higher regard than AP.
That was AP Latin for me. Pretty sure one of my classmates wrote his essays in Bengali.Combination of AP and IB exams got me 37 credits. It was pretty great. But IB is kind of insane. Pulled more all nighters than I ever did in college.
Ugh, WHAT DID THEY TO DO VMCAS? This morning, one of the doctors who's writing a letter for me said she tried submitting it last night. She kept getting an access denied error.
I just went in to add another evaluation request for someone else, and after I clicked "save," nothing happened. So I clicked it again, and still nothing happened. I clicked on the "evaluations" tab to see if it showed there, and I got an error message saying I had reached the maximum number of evaluations (which is not possible - this was my FOURTH), and NONE of my evaluation requests are listed. Just the error message and a "create a new evaluation" button. And of course I tried to go to the main page, and it gave me a 404. Closed the tab and opened the main portal/login page and got a 404.
They did scheduled maintenance yesterday. I should've known that "scheduled maintenance" means "let's f- everything up and give the customer service people something to actually do on Monday."
Just checked and I can't even get to the VMCAS login page. Perhaps the maintenance continues this evening?
Ugh, not again! All my letters are in now, and I was planning to recheck everything tonight and then submit. I guess not though. Even if it starts working again, I don't want to submit when they're having errors and have it not go through.
Hopefully next year they won't completely overhaul the system again, and actually have an application service that works.
Remember everyone, we're pretty much beta-testing the new VMCAS. Yey for us.
Remember everyone, we're pretty much beta-testing the new VMCAS. Yey for us.
Maybe you guys can answer a question for me
So I sent in my application with 3/4 eLors in. My fourth recommendation can still send in his letter right?
Well I've been wrestling with my school for weeks now and I'm going to try and finally order my transcript today because they claim that they've sorted everything out (gee, thanks guys). If I'm successful, with express mail, VMCAS should get it by the end of the week. Not ideal since I wanted to submit a week ago, but as long as I'm in before the deadline and there are no major issues then all will be well. So here's hoping my school didn't screw me over again and I can get this last piece of the puzzle out. *sigh*
is anyone else doing the professional transcript entry?
is anyone else doing the professional transcript entry?
I hope everything is sorted and you have no more delays! That is so frustrating.
Just submitted VCMAS! Now to wait for it to verify.