How did we get this far into the year without a threadFor my peeps applying to Illinois!! @SportPonies, @MyDogsAreBarking, and I are current 4th years. @SkiOtter is a 3rd year. Then there are some 2nd and newly minted 1st years floating around as well. Let us know if you have any questions!!
Crossing my fingers for you!!! 2nd time was the charm for me at Illinois!
Crossing my fingers for you too!!!!!
Thank you so much! Your & batsenecals posts have made me so excited about UIUC, so I’m hoping it works out this year!
Whoo hoo me too! Keep the positivity going!
I didn’t formally introduce myself, but yeah I saw you for a little bit, I was the one who asked about how you liked the exam schedule
so excited to be applying to Illinois!
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It’s potentially because they have two “plans” for prereqs, depending on if you’ll have completed a bachelors or not by matriculation. You could definitely email ASA and double check thoughI feel like I'm always the one on here with the silly questions, so I'll kick it off on the right foot here on this thread
I apologize if the answers are so blatantly obvious! So I noticed with some schools, on VMCAS, there is a tab where you select the courses to satisfy the pre-requisites for the program. With Illinois, this tab is not there, and I could not find where to do this with Illinois. Is this because they select the courses rather than us selecting them? Or is there a different area to do this that I haven't found?
Thanks in advance!
I’ll probably skip class and help with interview day too
What are you supposed to be on (currently)?I was originally on imaging and planning on helping. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to now
Especially since it’s winter so it’s arthroscopy season
How did you manage to add the bibliographies? I am having trouble, as they are a lot !
I just copy pasted my works cited/bibliography page at the end of my essay. They allow 10k characters so you shouldn’t run into space issues in general
If you cited within the essay you probably are okay since you don’t have enough space. They basically want to make sure that you can write a cohesive research report (essentially) and give credit where it’s needed.
There's no way to take out a few sentences to have room for your references? I wouldn't skip that - I would try to cut out some portion of your essay to add them. The point of the 10000 character limit is to easily allow for that. I would have someone else look at your essay so they can objectively tell you where to cut things - I had both a veterinarian and my friend in a PhD program read mine, they were great on helping to cut down.
Nope, you don’t hear anything from Illinois until sometime in December when they let people know if they made it past phase 1 or not. And there’s nothing other than just VMCAS and pay the processing fee directly to the school.
Thank you! I really do hope that I make it past phase 1. Not sure if I'll be able to wait until December or January but I'll do my best to stay patient.
The waiting game is by far the worst. This is my second year applying so I'm in the same boat. Take this time to do the things you enjoy (spooky stuff for me
) and the time will fly by!
Ayyy!! Second time was the charm for me! Hoping the same for you!!The waiting game is by far the worst. This is my second year applying so I'm in the same boat. Take this time to do the things you enjoy (spooky stuff for me) and the time will fly by!
Are they IS or OOS?
Thank you!
