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2015-2016 Drexel University Application Thread

Started by Ismet
BU Medical Sciences
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For the part at the end where they ask for current experiences, did you guys write anything in the "Additional Info" box?
 
Since there is no character length on the one essay, are most people just giving a straight forward answer about what they are doing during the application cycle, or should it be more in-depth, explaining why you are choosing these activities, and what you have learned from it? Should I aim for a 400 word, reflective essay, or just a quick summary of what I'm doing this application cycle?
 
winterwind_23 said:
Since there is no character length on the one essay, are most people just giving a straight forward answer about what they are doing during the application cycle, or should it be more in-depth, explaining why you are choosing these activities, and what you have learned from it? Should I aim for a 400 word, reflective essay, or just a quick summary of what I'm doing this application cycle?
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Is this the part at the end that asks "If you feel that If you feel that there is additional information about how you satisfied any of these competencies please explain below?"

If yes, I am wondering about that too.
 
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Sharks101 said:
Is this the part at the end that asks "If you feel that If you feel that there is additional information about how you satisfied any of these competencies please explain below?"

If yes, I am wondering about that too.
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That's not the part I'm referring to. I'm asking about the "if you're not in school, what are your plans for the year" question. I'm not exactly sure what the question is though, because I haven't received the secondary yet.
 
winterwind_23 said:
That's not the part I'm referring to. I'm asking about the "if you're not in school, what are your plans for the year" question. I'm not exactly sure what the question is though, because I haven't received the secondary yet.
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You need to answer that only if you graduated at least 6 months ago.
 
winterwind_23 said:
Since there is no character length on the one essay, are most people just giving a straight forward answer about what they are doing during the application cycle, or should it be more in-depth, explaining why you are choosing these activities, and what you have learned from it? Should I aim for a 400 word, reflective essay, or just a quick summary of what I'm doing this application cycle?
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I just gave a brief account of what I was doing at work, without any reflections/lessons learned/etc.
 
Anyone trying submit the secondary and just getting the spinning wheel of death and neverending loading? I swear I submitted beforehand, and then when I checked today, it said it had not been submitted, so I'm trying to go back and re-do it, but no luck.
 
agoron said:
Anyone trying submit the secondary and just getting the spinning wheel of death and neverending loading? I swear I submitted beforehand, and then when I checked today, it said it had not been submitted, so I'm trying to go back and re-do it, but no luck.
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Same. The wheel of death keeps spinning for about half an hour. When it finally stops, I am greeted by a very lovely error page. On my 8724534583th attempt.
 
RudyRude said:
Still no secondary... Did anyone here email them to get it? Kinda raging at drexel right now
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I've been verified since june 12th and haven't gotten one either. I'm just gonna assume that they're sending secondaries out in waves to prevent their website from crashing or something.
 
agoron said:
Anyone trying submit the secondary and just getting the spinning wheel of death and neverending loading? I swear I submitted beforehand, and then when I checked today, it said it had not been submitted, so I'm trying to go back and re-do it, but no luck.
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That happened to me. Keep trying. It worked for me a day later. I recommend trying during a less high traffic time, like 4 in the morning.
 
Juhkizzle said:
Same. The wheel of death keeps spinning for about half an hour. When it finally stops, I am greeted by a very lovely error page. On my 8724534583th attempt.
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That happened to me too! It eventually worked. Maybe 30 seconds after I pressed submit on attempt 4, a screen popped up that asked if I was sure I wanted to submit, I said yes, and it went through.
 
For those people that submitted, did you guys leave the part at the bottom (after current experiences) blank? For anyone still working on it, are you guys planning to provide additional information?
 
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Sounds like they're having technical difficulties, so they're sending them out more slowly than usual to keep the error pages to a minimum.
 
On the secondary, what did you guys do if you have both a committee letter AND individual letters, since you can only select one or the other on there?
 
For academic history where they ask you to list your undergrad/grad history, I see that my undergrad institution is already listed with every data field filled in *except* for the self-reported cumulative GPA field. Is it OK if this is blank? There doesn't seem to be a way to add it to what's already listed, so I'd have to create an entirely new and redundant entry just to add the GPA.
 
JockoTheWalrus said:
For academic history where they ask you to list your undergrad/grad history, I see that my undergrad institution is already listed with every data field filled in *except* for the self-reported cumulative GPA field. Is it OK if this is blank? There doesn't seem to be a way to add it to what's already listed, so I'd have to create an entirely new and redundant entry just to add the GPA.
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I have that too. It's probably fine.
 
vantheman said:
Filled out entire application, proof read three times, pressed save, server crashed and I lost everything. *facepalm
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Even if you get the error message, you should be able to hit the back button and it'll bring everything back. I'm using Chrome and each time I've gotten the error I've been able to hit the back button and everything is still there. //waiting for eternity for the application to submit...
 
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I am trying to save the form using the "save incomplete form" button and when I log back on everything else is saved EXCEPT my courses and weekly hours under experiences. Anyone else having the same issue? 😡
 
cougariffic said:
I am trying to save the form using the "save incomplete form" button and when I log back on everything else is saved EXCEPT my courses and weekly hours under experiences. Anyone else having the same issue? 😡
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Yes! Well, it saved like 2 check marks from courses, but thats it. After about the 2nd time, I gave up and decided to try later haha
 
So I'm confused. I graduated in May and am taking a Gap year. Does that make my education not continuous?
 
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