2014-2015 Quinnipiac University Application Thread

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"Does anyone know if you can submit your secondary without AMCAS having received your letters of recommendation? On the secondary it says: "
Before submitting your Secondary Application, please ensure that all authors whom you are expecting to submit recommendations on your behalf are listed above. If authors are not listed, please confirm that their recommendations have been submitted to the AMCAS Letter Service."

Does this mean that you can't submit the secondary until the letters are available, or that you just have to indicate the letters you are expecting on AMCAS?"



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Not fair! Does the 2 week rule not apply if your committee doesn't send any letters until August!?!
 
niels465 said:
"Does anyone know if you can submit your secondary without AMCAS having received your letters of recommendation? On the secondary it says: "
Before submitting your Secondary Application, please ensure that all authors whom you are expecting to submit recommendations on your behalf are listed above. If authors are not listed, please confirm that their recommendations have been submitted to the AMCAS Letter Service."

Does this mean that you can't submit the secondary until the letters are available, or that you just have to indicate the letters you are expecting on AMCAS?"



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The LoR section on my secondary is blank, even though I've designated LoRs for Quinnipiac in AMCAS. It looks like you can't submit without letters appearing in that section. I emailed the school and they said to wait a few more days and call AMCAS on Monday if it's still not there.
 
I'm still waiting on the secondary. I haven't picked letter writers yet. Could this be why I haven't gotten it?
 
ShabbaRanks said:
I'm still waiting on the secondary. I haven't picked letter writers yet. Could this be why I haven't gotten it?
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so you're saying that the people who you want to write you letters dont know they have to write them yet?
 
This might be a dumb question, but for the Courses section of the secondary, do you enter just the minimum number of courses that satisfy the requirement? I was a bio major so I have a ton of bio classes, do I enter them all or just the first 2 lab courses I took?
 
NSP91 said:
so you're saying that the people who you want to write you letters dont know they have to write them yet?
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I have all my letters on amcas. Just haven't applied them to my schools yet. Little did I know I didn't send my primary to this school. I guess it's hard to get a secondary when they don't even know I'm applying!
 
ShabbaRanks said:
I have all my letters on amcas. Just haven't applied them to my schools yet. Little did I know I didn't send my primary to this school. I guess it's hard to get a secondary when they don't even know I'm applying!
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why not?? say if you have 5 letters or less, shouldn't you just send them to all your schools?
 
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for people on a quarter system how have you inputted your courses and units??

do we put semester hours.
do we also put labs?
 
One more secondary in the can. Feels good!
 
demystifie said:
Same here, my committee doesn't send out the letter packet for a while 🙁
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My committee letter agreement said August 15th so I was worried about the same thing. They magically uploaded it 7/1 which I am SO shocked it's done... keep your head up, yours will be in soon too!
 
Anybody still having problems getting past the demographic info part? They said its a glitch and it still hadnt been fixed.
 
Applying OOS 3.75, 34

This is probably trivial, but what would I put for my grade if I am planning to take a course in Spring of 2015? It isn't technically in progress. Thanks!
 
For the question: If you couldn't work in health care or the sciences, what career would you choose and why?

What exactly defines healthcare? Would a physical therapist? What about getting a Masters in Public Health and doing something in government?
 
Rollerbladdin said:
For the question: If you couldn't work in health care or the sciences, what career would you choose and why?

What exactly defines healthcare? Would a physical therapist? What about getting a Masters in Public Health and doing something in government?
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Hello🙂 I don't think physical therapist or MPH would count cuz these fall under the sciences. Working for the govt is alright I think
 
I actually was going to write mine about public health- PH is science-based when talking about infectious disease and microbiology, biostatistics, and possibly epidemiology. I would argue @Rollerbladdin and @bruinforhuman that a social/behavioral or community health public health track would not be classified as science.
 
stickshifthonda said:
I actually was going to write mine about public health- PH is science-based when talking about infectious disease and microbiology, biostatistics, and possibly epidemiology. I would argue @Rollerbladdin and @bruinforhuman that a social/behavioral or community health public health track would not be classified as science.
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I wrote mine about public health. The community development aspect of public health is non-science and I think it would be suitable for this essay.
 
I believe public health falls under the health care aspect of the question.

Actually, I semi-retract that statement, although I believe most of public health is considered part of health care.
 
Question about prerequisite courses:

For organic chemistry, the requirements state that 2 semesters with labs are required. My university had two standalone lecture classes and two standalone lab classes. I took both of the lecture classes and one of the lab classes, but the second lab class explicitly stated that it was "not intended for pre-health professional majors" since they were trying to reserve those few seats for chemistry majors. If anyone happens to know, would they be willing to work with me on this, or am I just out of luck?

I already sent their office an e-mail, but I probably won't get a response until Monday at the earliest. Thanks!
 
FireKaiFire said:
I believe public health falls under the health care aspect of the question.
Actually, I semi-retract that statement, although I believe most of public health is considered part of health care.
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Here's my reasoning on this: I have a background in public health research. I wouldn't call the project I'm working on currently healthcare OR science. I'm trying to be honest with this question, because working in public health is actually my backup career. Public health doesn't involve working directly with patients to treat them so that's why I don't consider it healthcare. Public health can be a science, especially in public health research, but I think one can swing it as a non-science if you focus on the non-scientific aspects of public health, such as improving the infrastructure of the community and health education.

It was either that or write about the cupcake shop I want to open.
 
sundancing said:
Here's my reasoning on this: I have a background in public health research. I wouldn't call the project I'm working on currently healthcare OR science. I'm trying to be honest with this question, because working in public health is actually my backup career. Public health doesn't involve working directly with patients to treat them so that's why I don't consider it healthcare. Public health can be a science, especially in public health research, but I think one can swing it as a non-science if you focus on the non-scientific aspects of public health, such as improving the infrastructure of the community and health education.

It was either that or write about the cupcake shop I want to open.
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Tbh, I would rather hear about the cupcake shop. But that's just me.
 
Does anyone know if a composite letter is accepted by this school? I understand they want a letter packet, but my school only sends out composite letters, which is one letter created from all the individual letters.

Thanks
 
thakurabhi16 said:
Does anyone know if a composite letter is accepted by this school? I understand they want a letter packet, but my school only sends out composite letters, which is one letter created from all the individual letters.

Thanks
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Thats what i sent. Never seen a school not want a composite letter
 
Just to be clear.. so you cannot submit the secondary until all your letters are in?
Just want to make sure because then I can work on another secondary while waiting on letters (otherwise, I would submit it tomorrow )
 
I'm trying to write this secondary but I don't know what is considered science. Would you guys consider teaching math as a career in science? I feel like science is such a vast subject that could encompass so much.
 
Seems to me that they just don't want you to answer "research" or something that is too close to medicine
 
I submitted my secondary, but have a pending MCAT score that I indicated on my primary app. Do they review my application right away, or do they wait? I'm confused because the website for the school says that a completed application consists of primary, secondary, and recommendation. Nothing about MCAT.

Most schools wait, right?
 
thakurabhi16 said:
I submitted my secondary, but have a pending MCAT score that I indicated on my primary app. Do they review my application right away, or do they wait? I'm confused because the website for the school says that a completed application consists of primary, secondary, and recommendation. Nothing about MCAT.

Most schools wait, right?
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Yes, they will most likely wait if you've indicated another test day on your primary.
 
Anyone know how strict they are on the four letter requirement? I only have 3. Should I not bother submitting the secondary?
 
Hey guys,

How would you input AP Credits?

All it says on my transcript is the fact that I took "Biology" and it says my score.

1) For the place . . .do they want you to put the institution that awarded your credits?
2) What should you put for the course? "AP Biology" or the institution's course equivalent( ex: BIO105 , BIO106 etc)?
 
death prophet said:
Anyone know how strict they are on the four letter requirement? I only have 3. Should I not bother submitting the secondary?
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I was surprised by this requirement as well. The secondary instructions mention four letters a few times, and the lines are written in bold. I called about it, and an admissions representative mentioned that the application would be put on hold until 4 letters are received. She recommended that I submit as soon as possible though, so perhaps they record the date/time of submission.
 
IL Pre Med said:
I'm wondering this as well, I'm interested in surgical specialties but I don't know if writing about being interested in surgery will get my app tossed since they focus on primary care.
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I was accepted off the wait-list during last year's cycle. At my interview I talked about my strong interest in Family Medicine, but my interviewer seemed almost disappointed and replied that every applicant interviewed claimed primary care interests. I got the sense that with 50% in primary care, this new school needs some good chunk of students going after highly competitive specialties to set a reputation for the school. Match lists are quite important.
 
kamishakujii said:
I was accepted off the wait-list during last year's cycle. At my interview I talked about my strong interest in Family Medicine, but my interviewer seemed almost disappointed and replied that every applicant interviewed claimed primary care interests. I got the sense that with 50% in primary care, this new school needs some good chunk of students going after highly competitive specialties to set a reputation for the school. Match lists are quite important.
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Thanks for the reply, I ended up saying I was interested in a surgical specialty. I figure it's more important to be honest and write about what you're passionate about instead of feeding them what you think they want to hear. We'll see what happens from here on out.
 
baconcures said:
Just to be clear.. so you cannot submit the secondary until all your letters are in?
Just want to make sure because then I can work on another secondary while waiting on letters (otherwise, I would submit it tomorrow )
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Im not sure if this was posted earlier but you can submit your application as long as the letters have been designated to be sent to Quinnipac through AMCAS.

Of course the application will not be complete until the letters have been received. Hope this helps!
 
Yep - I couldn't submit using internet explorer and I thought it was because my letters weren't in, but it let me submit in firefox.
 
Secondary received today. 3.0 uGPA, 3.8gGPA, 38 MCAT. Happy I made it past the screen, definitely one of my top choices.
 
I wonder how strict they are on the non-science recommendation. I've got four letters now, but my non-science letter writer is lagging it badly.
 
MrLogan13 said:
I wonder how strict they are on the non-science recommendation. I've got four letters now, but my non-science letter writer is lagging it badly.
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You don't need a "non science professor" per say. It only says that two must be science. The other two could be anything else. A doctor you have shadowed or volunteer administrator.
 
Ahhh, you're right. I just double checked. I'm starting to get mixed up with all the secondaries I'm trying to complete. lol

SynapticDoctah said:
You don't need a "non science professor" per say. It only says that two must be science. The other two could be anything else. A doctor you have shadowed or volunteer administrator.
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Would IT still be a science field? It's not computer science, but it seems pretty borderline.
 
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