My VMCAS was already submitted, but I logged in to check for you. I found the explanation statement under Other Information within the Personal Information tab.
FTFY...
I would think so, seems logical that your primary school would refer to the one you're going to get your degree from
I'm pretty devastated as Mizzou is my IS and this was my third time applying, but good luck to everyone else!
Unfortunately I'm no longer eligible to apply this year, as one of my three evaluators was unable to submit in time due to a website glitch. I talked to Kathy and they won't accept the late evaluation.
Oh, no... I am so, so sorry to hear this.Unfortunately I'm no longer eligible to apply this year, as one of my three evaluators was unable to submit in time due to a website glitch. I talked to Kathy and they won't accept the late evaluation.
The other schools I applied to all said it shouldn't be a problem for him to email them the letter. So there's still hope, but it's scary knowing that if I get in anywhere, I'll be saddled with over twice as much debt as I would have at Mizzou.LG, I am so sorry to hear that
WHAT?? That's not fair at all, I'm so sorry to hear that LGUnfortunately I'm no longer eligible to apply this year, as one of my three evaluators was unable to submit in time due to a website glitch. I talked to Kathy and they won't accept the late evaluation.
. Did you explain it was a VMCAS glitch? Gah that really stinks 
Yes, Kathy was sympathetic given the circumstances, but still said there was no way they could accept it. :/ I think I'm going to call VMCAS as a last-ditch effort to see if there's anything they an do for me.WHAT?? That's not fair at all, I'm so sorry to hear that LG
At this point it can't hurt to try. I'll be crossing my fingers for you!
Unfortunately the curriculum at Mizzou is super unique so it wouldn't be possible to transfer over after first year (she would have to repeat first year over again), and it states on the website that transfer is only possible if the applicant was already accepted to Mizzou in the past cyclesWell WHEN you get accepted to your next top school, you can try to transfer to mizzou after first year
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Ditto on this. Gf was trying to come here, and tried every lupol in the book, and it just straight isn't going to happen. But if you went to a place that allows deferment for stuff like in state residency (ie penn) and you reapply and get accepted, that is certainly another option.Unfortunately the curriculum at Mizzou is super unique so it wouldn't be possible to transfer over after first year (she would have to repeat first year over again), and it states on the website that transfer is only possible if the applicant was already accepted to Mizzou in the past cycles
One thing I wonder if it's possible is to get accepted at another school, and then defer and try to apply to Mizzou again, if @LyraGardenia would want to apply again anyways. Though I'm not sure if the school she got accepted to would allow her to defer to reapply, she would probably need a better reason.
Just wanted to add on my condolencesUnfortunately I'm no longer eligible to apply this year, as one of my three evaluators was unable to submit in time due to a website glitch. I talked to Kathy and they won't accept the late evaluation.
sucks that the one school that couldn't work out the situation is your IS
That's an interesting thought, but assuming I do get in somewhere this year, I'm beyond ready to just get this show on the road! I don't think any of the schools I applied to allow deferment to gain IS tuition. SGU and Midwestern don't offer IS tuition at all, the others I applied to are Illinois and K State.
Unfortunately, the woman I talked to from VMCAS today said there's nothing they can do. If my evaluator had contacted them at the time, they may have been able to work with him, but at this point they can't reopen it for him to submit, and the schools have the final say whether or not they'll take the late letter.
That's definitely bad news, I am so sorryThank you for the kind words everyone, I really appreciate it.
That's an interesting thought, but assuming I do get in somewhere this year, I'm beyond ready to just get this show on the road! I don't think any of the schools I applied to allow deferment to gain IS tuition. SGU and Midwestern don't offer IS tuition at all, the others I applied to are Illinois and K State.
Unfortunately, the woman I talked to from VMCAS today said there's nothing they can do. If my evaluator had contacted them at the time, they may have been able to work with him, but at this point they can't reopen it for him to submit, and the schools have the final say whether or not they'll take the late letter.
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To be fair, he did try to submit and it just wouldn't go through; he didn't completely blow it off. But it is annoying that he waited until the last minute (he's provided a letter for me the past two years, so it should have been very quick for him to just answer the questions and submit the letter again), and that he didn't contact me about it. He didn't even return my voicemail last week asking what happened, I had to call the clinic the next day. It sucks because he was someone I thought highly of and thought I had a good relationship with. He let me come shadow him as much as I wanted back when I had nearly zero experience, and then he called me asking me to come work for him the next summer. He seemed to appreciate having me around and was very supportive of my goals. I guess maybe I should have stressed more just how strict the deadline was, but no point stressing about the past now.Reading through the recent posts about the eLOR issue boils my blood a bit, but makes me happy that I chose 3 people I have a great relationship with. I had to text one of them the day of his artificial deadline (3 weeks prior to Sept 15) to remind him to finish it because, as some people have said, life happens and these professionals do get busy. With that though, I would remove the individual that failed to come through on their end of a very important agreement from my Rolodex of Life. Blows my mind that someone would wait until the last minute anyway because let's face it, **** happens. This person owes @LyraGardenia a refund on Mizzou or at least her first stethoscope.
Good luck with the rest of your programs!
This is what I wrote on last year's thread and it still rings true:Can anyone explain the pros and cons of Mizzou? I don't know much about the school but would to know!
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Thanks for this!
I dont mind the short summer. Every summer I have had in college, I have been in school taking courses. I'm rather used to short summers
As for bad parking, how bad is it? I have dealth with 4 years of bad parking at my school. My school is located in a busy area of Boston, MA. Crazy city! We also do not have a parking lot (which I hate).
Does mizzou feel like a tight knit community?
It's not horrible parking... but it is a 8-10 minute walk for the firsties, and is not fun during winter time. During the summer block after first year you get to transition to the parking lot below the school which has stairs but is so. much. closer!Thanks for this!
I dont mind the short summer. Every summer I have had in college, I have been in school taking courses. I'm rather used to short summers
As for bad parking, how bad is it? I have dealth with 4 years of bad parking at my school. My school is located in a busy area of Boston, MA. Crazy city! We also do not have a parking lot (which I hate).
Does mizzou feel like a tight knit community?
One thing that I wanted to add about being close knit... There was a school that I interviewed at that was boasting about their small class size and how that is how "we are such a big family," which made me wrongly think that the only way you could become closeknit is to have a smaller class size. I have quite a bigger class (120, which is pretty "average") than what that vet school has, and I'm quite confident that we as a class are as much of a "family" as they are... it's all about your dynamic as a class, not the size of it.
Can anyone explain the pros and cons of Mizzou? I don't know much about the school but would to know!
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I actually asked Kathy this a little while ago. This was her response:
I am not 100% sure if this is true for OOS applicants since they typically receive interviews and acceptances way earlier than we IS peeps do, but I'm sure they are still recalculated with the fall semester afterward, regardless. But for the purposes of IS... it seems that, yes, they do consider fall grades.
Just to add to Ashgirl's list (though I've only been here a month
Pros:
Our big/little program. You get matched up with a second year who basically becomes your mentor and giver of hand-me-downs. I got some of my first year textbooks free from my big. Other classmates of mine have gotten old lab coats and old tests from their bigs. My big also left me chocolate in my mailbox on the day of my first anatomy exam.
The walk from the parking lot is not nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be before I started. I guess it depends on the person, but I like having the walk in the morning to help me wake up, and at the end of lectures to help me unwind. It also helps me feel like I got at least a little bit of exercise for the day, especially on those days before exams where going for a hike or a quick trip to the gym is just not possible. I actually think I'll miss it come second year when I trade my ten minute leisurely walk for a hike up a flight of stairs... >.<
The vet med library hours suck, but the main campus library is open 24 hours during the week (!!!!!!!!!!!!). Also, the health sciences library on campus is open til 1 AM most days, and since it requires you to show a health sciences ID, it stays much emptier and quieter than the main campus library does. Library availability is a huge deal to me because I can't study at home at all.
While we do have a dress code, it's very relaxed compared to other vet schools I looked into. It's not required that we wear business casual every day (or ever, for that matter). You can get away with wearing jeans and a school T-shirt everyday if you wanted.
One BIG pro for me: you're never in lecture all day. Other vet schools I visited would make a point about how comfy their lecture halls were because they warned that there would be days that you'd literally sit in your chair from morning till evening. Not at Mizzou. They do a really good job of mixing things up so that you have a combination of lecture and lab everyday. I was really dreading having to sit in one chair for hours and hours, but it's not like that at all! I feel like I'm constantly up and moving around the school. We also get more breaks than I thought we would (labs are split half-and-half, so you get sometimes up to two hours of free time while the other half of your class is in lab).
There are a LOT of opportunities here. Almost too many lol. There are research opportunities, jobs at the teaching hospital, a ton of clubs, and there also seems to be some interesting speaker or lunch-and-learn almost every day.
Cons:
The cafeteria in the vet school closes at 4, so you can't get dinner there if you planned to stay late in the building to study. And since the vet school is tucked away into a back corner of the university, it's also a ways away from other places to eat on campus.
The locker room for anatomy lab is an absolute disorganized mess. Even though they split the class half-and-half for lab, they assigned adjacent lockers to people who have lab at the same time. So it ends up being an absolute cluster****. I have to get to the locker room 20-30 minutes before lab if I want to be able to get to my locker and change without being late. Otherwise, I'm stuck waiting for the people with lockers right next to mine to leave.
The only club recognized by the university is SCAVMA, so you have to join that club before you can join any other interesting vet school clubs. It may not seem like a huge deal, but it's still $55 in dues per year, and you have to work a concession stand at a football game your first year. It's just kind of an annoying thing if you weren't planning on joining SCAVMA otherwise.
It won't be before Mid-November. I was notified over Thanksgiving break when I got my OOS interview notification. Unless something changes this year with the new VMCAS/earlier deadline.
Admittedly, I don't keep up much with the OOS timeline since I'm IS, but from what I've seen in the past, OOS interview invites tend to start going out in early-mid November.
