Illinois c/o 2017 Applicants!

[dvmdreamer]

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My gpas are up. I agree with all classes' designations as Y/N. GPA is as expected.

 

[irrelephant23]

My gpas are up. I agree with all classes' designations as Y/N. GPA is as expected.

Lucky! My transcripts still aren't evaluated! I wish they did it by proximity... Come on UIllinois, I live 2 miles away! 😡

 

[dvmdreamer]

Lucky! My transcripts still aren't evaluated! I wish they did it by proximity... Come on UIllinois, I live 2 miles away! 😡

Hehe. I'm not tooooo far- 210 miles. They just got done this afternoon (I'm lame... I've been checking about every 6 hours for the past week). Maybe yours will get done tomorrow?

Still anxiously waiting on Iowa....

 

[WannaBeVet]

I keep checking the status page like a madwoman and my transcripts have yet to be evaluated! Making me anxious, especially since my eLORS are classified as selected but not received?

 

[irrelephant23]

Woooooo!!! Mine were evaluated! By their standards, my sci gpa is 3.33! I was thinking more like 0.00! Woo! haha maybe other schools are more generous in their transcript eval's than I previously thought!

 

[wildcatj]

I keep checking the status page like a madwoman and my transcripts have yet to be evaluated! Making me anxious, especially since my eLORS are classified as selected but not received?

Mine just say selected too, so I wouldn't worry. If it says they have your VMCA's and you know your LORs submitted they they will have them.

 

[macita183]

My transcripts haven't been evaluated either. Everything says "Received" so I'm hoping they are just working their way down the line to mine...

 

[dvmdreamer]

My transcripts haven't been evaluated either. Everything says "Received" so I'm hoping they are just working their way down the line to mine...

Maybe its alphabetical? I'm near the beginning.

 

[irrelephant23]

Maybe its alphabetical? I'm near the beginning.

I'm an H!

 

[macita183]

I think you're right about alphabetical. I'm a J and this morning when I checked my GPA was evaluated. Now more waiting...

 

[vickers]

I'm a K and yet to be evaluated, maybe tomorrow?

 

[WannaBeVet]

I'm a K and yet to be evaluated, maybe tomorrow?

I'm a U...long wait for me then!

 

[RetroUnicorn]

Darn it...I'm a W!

 

[vickers]

Finally mine are up! But my GPA is reported as considerably less than what's on my transcripts and what I put on my VMCAS (my school doesn't count +/- when calculating GPA, I guess Illinois does, so I have 3.72 while they are reporting a 3.64). Does anybody think that will affect my chances? I don't want them thinking I was lying on my VMCAS .

Also, they calculate the science GPA kinda weird... my math classes counted as science, but 2 of my bio classes didn't... strange haha.

 

[wildcatj]

Finally mine are up! But my GPA is reported as considerably less than what's on my transcripts and what I put on my VMCAS (my school doesn't count +/- when calculating GPA, I guess Illinois does, so I have 3.72 while they are reporting a 3.64). Does anybody think that will affect my chances? I don't want them thinking I was lying on my VMCAS .

Also, they calculate the science GPA kinda weird... my math classes counted as science, but 2 of my bio classes didn't... strange haha.

If you have 3.72 on your transcript you should be fine. But every school calculates GPA's differently, so I wouldn't worry about it. They will ask you if they are worried about any discrepancies.

 

[dvmdreamer]

Last year's Illinois threads show that people who did not make it through Phase I got rejection letters December 8-10. I've been watching the mail, as my cum is significantly below last year's cut off level, but nothing yet.... Has anyone else gotten anything?

 

[Lightinthedark]

Last year's Illinois threads show that people who did not make it through Phase I got rejection letters December 8-10. I've been watching the mail, as my cum is significantly below last year's cut off level, but nothing yet.... Has anyone else gotten anything?

Hey, dvmdreamer, does it come by snail mail or e-mail? I have not received any rejection letters so far.

 

[wildowl]

Last year's Illinois threads show that people who did not make it through Phase I got rejection letters December 8-10. I've been watching the mail, as my cum is significantly below last year's cut off level, but nothing yet.... Has anyone else gotten anything?

Nothing yet, I've been checking the portal the past couple days and no change yet. Still hopeful!

 

[dvmdreamer]

Hey, dvmdreamer, does it come by snail mail or e-mail? I have not received any rejection letters so far.

It appears that last year it came by snail mail and showed up before the status was changed on the portal. But of course they may do something different this year.

Good luck everyone

 

[bbeventer]

I think last year statuses were changed in early January. The year before letters went out right before Christmas.

Good luck to you all!

 

[irrelephant23]

I know I was abroad when I found out that I didn't get in to my IS last winter so I believe I was notified right around Christmas. Hopefully this Christmas has better news!

 

[bbeventer]

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[saltshaker007]

Does anyone know if IS and OOS rejections were sent at the same time? I'm freaking out because I'm not sure if the lack of a rejection means I am not getting one or I just haven't recieved it yet....

 

[bbeventer]

Does anyone know if IS and OOS rejections were sent at the same time? I'm freaking out because I'm not sure if the lack of a rejection means I am not getting one or I just haven't recieved it yet....

Don't stress just yet. Regardless if you OOS or IS, its too early to tell. If I can remember correctly they go out about the same time, so either last week of December or January-ish.

 

[GretaBug3]

Has anyone gotten a letter yet?? I am home on break, and not at my apartment address. How do we know what is going on? I am an out of state applicant! 😕

 

[dvmdreamer]

Has anyone gotten a letter yet?? I am home on break, and not at my apartment address. How do we know what is going on? I am an out of state applicant! 😕

I'm out of state too and haven't heard anything. I'm also anxious, I expected to get a reject for sure by now (my gpa is way below the cut off last year). Not sure if no news is good news?

It seems the statuses changed last year the beginning of Jan, so we should know something soon enough I guess. Oh the waiting!

 

[saltshaker007]

I'm out of state too and haven't heard anything. I'm also anxious, I expected to get a reject for sure by now (my gpa is way below the cut off last year). Not sure if no news is good news?

It seems the statuses changed last year the beginning of Jan, so we should know something soon enough I guess. Oh the waiting!

I can't take it! I'm in state and I haven't heard anything either. Two people have already posted that they recieved rejection letters on 12/17 but their statuses had not been changed at the time. I haven't received a letter yet, and I'm assuming if letters had been sent out on the 17th then I should have received one / the statuses should have been changed by now. But then, I can't be sure. Last year rejection letters went out on 12/7 and 12/8 and statuses were not changed right away. Interview invites were sent out 1/10 and statuses were changed before letters were recieved. Soo, basically, I have no idea what is good or bad news yet I'm still freaking out. If I had to guess, no news would be good news because we should have heard by now, that is, IF all rejection letters had been sent at the same time, which would make sense. But then, I'm getting my hopes up and that's not good...

Anyone think I'm crazy yet?? 🙂

 

[dvmdreamer]

Anyone think I'm crazy yet?? 🙂

Haha no, you are echoing my thoughts 😛

I came up with 21 OOS applicants that have frequented SDN. Plus I know another girl who applied and also has not heard anything. It seems unlikely to me that 91% of us would be in the 25% of applicants that get interviews. I suppose we could have made it through Phase I and now are being evaluated in Phase 2?

Phase 2 is the part where they see the egregious typo that I made on my supplemental essay...🙄

 

[GretaBug3]

I'm out of state too and haven't heard anything. I'm also anxious, I expected to get a reject for sure by now (my gpa is way below the cut off last year). Not sure if no news is good news?

It seems the statuses changed last year the beginning of Jan, so we should know something soon enough I guess. Oh the waiting!

My GPA and science GPA appears really low as well based on their math, which I am not even sure how since my overall GPA for graduate school is much much higher than anything they calculated. I guess I should have re-calculated and checked it and emailed them. Oh well, I suppose it is too late now.

I do not know what to do! I emailed them about transcripts, and she told me that if I had no been declined yet, to send in my fall transcripts by February 1st. I wasn't sure if that means, they have already declined people, or what? I am just waiting before sending any regardless.

 

[vickers]

My GPA and science GPA appears really low as well based on their math, which I am not even sure how since my overall GPA for graduate school is much much higher than anything they calculated. I guess I should have re-calculated and checked it and emailed them. Oh well, I suppose it is too late now.

I do not know what to do! I emailed them about transcripts, and she told me that if I had no been declined yet, to send in my fall transcripts by February 1st. I wasn't sure if that means, they have already declined people, or what? I am just waiting before sending any regardless.

If you check out the Official Rejections c/o 2017 thread, a few rejections were sent out last week. And I wouldn't worry too much about what they calculated for your GPA - their calculations for mine are way lower than what I put on my VMCAS and what my transcripts say, but only because Illinois accounts for pluses and minuses on grades while my undergrad did not.

 

[GretaBug3]

Hmm that is interesting. My science GPA isnt quite even a 3.0 though by their calculations... YIKES! It is also strange to me what grades they used for science GPA, like chose biostatistics which is a course I took in grad school, and then the basics like biology, but also calculated another graduate level course. I thought that they all used a very similar basic blanket of science courses, like bio, chem, ochem, biochem, genetics, etc...

Regardless, do we know of anyone who has actually even gotten an interview yet? Or just rejections?

 

[bannanababy146]

From what I've heard from previous applicants, most people tend to get rejections before Christmas. I'm not saying that if you haven't gotten a rejection yet, then you have an interview. But it seems that no news is good news! I'm trying to not get my hopes up too much though! I'm guessing they are pretty much done going over phase I and II at this point, maybe finishing up the tail end of some people's phase II application. Goodluck to everyone, I hope we all get some happy news soon!

 

[bannanababy146]

Hmm that is interesting. My science GPA isnt quite even a 3.0 though by their calculations... YIKES! It is also strange to me what grades they used for science GPA, like chose biostatistics which is a course I took in grad school, and then the basics like biology, but also calculated another graduate level course. I thought that they all used a very similar basic blanket of science courses, like bio, chem, ochem, biochem, genetics, etc...

Regardless, do we know of anyone who has actually even gotten an interview yet? Or just rejections?

I don't know anyone that has gotten an interview yet, I'm IS and know a few people applying. I think their sGPA is different than most schools because a lot of other schools calculate your sGPA using only their required science courses. However, Illinois looks at your transcripts and uses all of your courses that they consider science classes. But I don't know how they decide whether or not a class is "science". Some of my upper level bio classes weren't counted (like a genetics and genomics course), but a neuroscience class was counted. Seems a little random!

 

[GretaBug3]

Agreed, I could really use some good news!

Do we know if interview invites will come via snail mail as well? I also have not checked my apartment address mailbox since Dec. 15th... since I am home on break, so for all I know I do have a rejection there, but I won't know till I get back in town on the 6th of January.... 🙁

 

[orca2011]

Interview invites all went out on the same day last year (first week of January) just as a heads up. It will be on your portal first and then you'll get a letter.

Also, everyone interviews on the same day. It was like Feb 13th last year or something like that.

 

[orca2011]

I don't know anyone that has gotten an interview yet, I'm IS and know a few people applying. I think their sGPA is different than most schools because a lot of other schools calculate your sGPA using only their required science courses. However, Illinois looks at your transcripts and uses all of your courses that they consider science classes. But I don't know how they decide whether or not a class is "science". Some of my upper level bio classes weren't counted (like a genetics and genomics course), but a neuroscience class was counted. Seems a little random!

You can try to get some of them added if you provide like a syllabus and stuff like that. I had a Marine Vertebrates class that didn't count and wanted to try to get it added but I was having a hard time accessing the info I needed since it was a course I took when I was abroad in the UK.

 

[wildowl]

Agreed, I could really use some good news!

Do we know if interview invites will come via snail mail as well? I also have not checked my apartment address mailbox since Dec. 15th... since I am home on break, so for all I know I do have a rejection there, but I won't know till I get back in town on the 6th of January.... 🙁

I'm having the same issue as you! Except I set up vacation forwarding and then I found out from my cousin who works at the post office that it will actually take an extra 3-5 days to even get to my home due to the holidays...🙁 I hope we all get good news!!

 

[bannanababy146]

You can try to get some of them added if you provide like a syllabus and stuff like that. I had a Marine Vertebrates class that didn't count and wanted to try to get it added but I was having a hard time accessing the info I needed since it was a course I took when I was abroad in the UK.

Ah I didn't know that! It is probably too late for this cycle, but if I don't get in and end up having to reapply, this will be helpful. Thanks!

 

[orca2011]

Ah I didn't know that! It is probably too late for this cycle, but if I don't get in and end up having to reapply, this will be helpful. Thanks!

I don't think they really advertise it. I had emailed them and asked why that particular course didn't count and they said it was because they couldn't find any info on it themselves (mainly because they were looking at my home institution vs my abroad school). I might have actually found some info for them and emailed it, but it still didn't end up counting.