I wouldn't worry If I were you.
I had a great GPA, less than stellar GRE scores, and I still got into schools. It's really all a shot in the dark with some schools. I would stay positive because you never know
I would look into schools that weight the GRE less than GPA.
Yeah I understand your pain. I'm not the best standardized test taker, but I didn't let that stop me. I struggled with the verbal section(mostly the vocabulary word) as I do not have enriched vocabulary but managed to do reasonable.
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Good choice in applying to Missouri! They weigh your GRE at something like 4%, I believe.
I would consider them extracurricular activities - in my mind honors are things like Dean's List or awards or whatever. It's probably not a huge deal either way though.
I'm sure other factors of my application helped a lot, but I just wanted to throw that info out there!
From my understanding, it's a lot more stressful if you're edging on the due date and it still hasn't been submitted. 
My understanding was you need to list them all.
List them all
I would still list them as biology courses
I think it was discussed in another thread that the speed of the submission isn't necessarily a reflection of the quality of the letter - everyone is different. Be relieved that it is out of the way and that you have one less eLOR to worry about before the due date.
I didn't know a lot of my professors, but I did get some of my supervisors/employers to write me recommendations as they knew me on a personal level and were able to directly observe my work ethic, attitude, etc.
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I would say yes, since they said to list all the tests you've taken
If the school only requires 3, then having exactly 3 is not going to negatively affect you. I doubt very much that a decision between applicants would come down to who had more letters.
just sent my first evaluation request! two more to gooo
Yup, you can include high school stuff. You're applying as a sophomore? Don't think I've seen anyone do that before!
No no. I just love to get things planned and prepped.. especially something as important as this. I'm doing a 3+1 program so I will apply this time next year, find out if I got in my junior year and get a B.S. degree after my first year of vet school... that is if I get in. Thanks for the quick reply!
Actually, a current Purdue VM3 applied and was accepted as a sophmore through Purdue's fast track program.
If you have any questions about Purdue and the application, classes, the 3+1 program, lemme know! I applied to Purdue twice and graduated in December with my AnSc Bachelors
This makes the most sense to me, and is how i organized things
Also, since it's pretty late, I honestly hope my post is coherent for all of you to read. Thanks in advance!
I think asking them to work on the letter together would be a good idea. There were two vets at one of the places I interned, and what they did was have one (the more senior vet) actually do the evaluation, while the other vets and the techs gave her comments to help with the letter and to fill in the blanks of the evaluation where it was asking about things that she hasn't personally observed.Sorry for the long post, but I'm wondering if some of you could give me advice on who to ask for my letter of recommendation?
I am going to ask a shelter veterinarian who I've shadowed extensively/volunteered for this past year, and my advisor, who is also my research professor for a letter of rec.
However, since I spent one whole summer at a private animal hospital in Taiwan, basically from 9AM-10PM each day, in retrospect I should have asked for a letter of rec from one of their veterinarians before I left their hospital last August as well. I have been keeping in touch/messaging with most of the veterinarians over Facebook as friends now, and honestly have been struggling with which veterinarian to request the letter from.
Out of the 10 veterinarians at the hospital, I narrowed down my list to two veterinarians who I felt would be able to write me the strongest letters of rec/mentored me the most/who I shadowed the most.
Vet A: is better at english, has spoken well of me to others before, is the one I shadowed the most inside the surgery room, allowed me to assist him with bandaging wounds/minor procedures, observed me interacting with owners the most, and is the one I conversed with a lot. He came into the hospital about 3x/week, and left about two weeks before I left the hospital for med school, and is the one I talk to the most over Facebook about vet stuff.
Vet B: not as good at english, but taught me: how to insert an IV, how to remove a catheter, how to properly make liquid medication/fill pill capsules, how to measure blood pressure, how to set up some of their emergency resuscitation equipment and give oxygen. She's allowed me to assist during emergency cases, restrain for ultrasounds, and allowed me to monitor a lot of her patients whenever she had to go do something real quick (saw her 5x/week).
I feel like a letter of rec from both of their observations/knowledge about me combined would be wonderful, however I don't know: 1) who to approach, since some things vet A observed me doing, vet B was not present (and vice versa), 2) how to make sure their english conveys their thoughts well? (some have suggested asking them to write it in Chinese and getting a formal translator to translate it into english for them), 3) if I should inform them about how a letter of rec is written (since those are rarely done for schools/jobs in Taiwan), and 4) if I should just choose one vet and tell him/her what I did for the other vet(s) that they may not recall observing?
I plan on e-mailing either one or the other, sending them my resumé, and a paragraph of what my tasks were in the hospital to jog their memories.
I have been feeling awful about this lately, but I hope I can send out a well-worded e-mail by tomorrow night (once I've taken my GRE tomorrow morning), so any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Agreed. I know that VMCAS 3.0 is new and a lot of the kinks are still being worked out, I'm sure, but the experiences section is seriously frustrating. I've now had to go through and delete everything twice and redo it all because I have new experiences to add, and they're absolutely adamant on everything being chronological... I really wish that there was an option to move experiences around and reorder them as need be. Was that a thing on the old VMCAS?
Yeah, that's what I would do too. Wait until you're sure all your experiences are done or you're close enough to when yoi want to submit that you wouldn't have anything else to put it.
Perhaps this is your gateway to richness
