Iowa State c/o 2022 applicants

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gottadvm said:
I think it seems that it is a lot more than just an applicant's GPA and other quantitative variables. Many schools seem to be taking life experiences, personal statement, general personality into account. All of which are arguably equally as important as academic ability when it comes to taking care of patients. The ability to work well with others and to view situations with empathy and compassion are necessary. We all know the students with the 4.0 GPA and all the "right boxes checked" who we would not allow to treat our worst enemies, much less our animals.
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Yeah I bet you they paid extra careful attention to these things this year since they didn’t interview.
 
SkiOtter said:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha okay if you wanna say that’s not conceited, that’s fine. The rest of us will just be avoiding you *shrugs*
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Everyone has worked hard. I have you have the next person has. We all think we should of gotten admitted especially if our stats are close to those posted. That’s just natural. All I was doing was answering I was more than stats. Most of us are and all of us are hoping we get admitted. I wish you and everyone luck.
 
GiGi1992 said:
Everyone has worked hard. I have you have the next person has. We all think we should of gotten admitted especially if our stats are close to those posted. That’s just natural. All I was doing was answering I was more than stats. Most of us are and all of us are hoping we get admitted. I wish you and everyone luck.
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Yes but you don’t need to be putting the people who DID get in down by saying “I’m better than them and therefore I should have gotten in and not them”
And your “I’m stats plus everything else” is pretty conceited.
You may have better stats than some people, but numbers aren’t everything. It’s only half for Iowa State.
Yeah, you are allowed to be annoyed you didn’t get in, but you are not allowed to put people who did get in down just because you supposedly had better stats. It’s rude and will not get you anywhere in life. Suck it up buttercup. Good luck with LSU.
 
SkiOtter said:
Yes but you don’t need to be putting the people who DID get in down by saying “I’m better than them and therefore I should have gotten in and not them”
And your “I’m stats plus everything else” is pretty conceited.
You may have better stats than some people, but numbers aren’t everything. It’s only half for Iowa State.
Yeah, you are allowed to be annoyed you didn’t get in, but you are not allowed to put people who did get in down just because you supposedly had better stats. It’s rude and will not get you anywhere in life. Suck it up buttercup. Good luck with LSU.
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Thank you and good luck to you! I hope you have an acceptance or are close to the top and are getting one! I sincerely mean that! And maybe I’ll be in your class I don’t know where I’ll go yet.
 
10999KL said:
Don't give up hope! I was accepted OOS; here are my stats.

23 year old AZ resident, female, 1st time applicant

Applied: Iowa State, Wisconsin, Lincoln Memorial, Oregon State, Washington State
Interview invites: Lincoln Memorial, Washington State (the three other schools did not do interviews either for OOS or both IS/OOS)
Rejected: none (so far, still waiting on LMU)
Waitlisted: Washington State, Oregon State
Accepted: Iowa State, Wisconsin
Attending: I don't know yet! visiting UW this upcoming week for Admitted Students Day. I have visited Iowa and love it there, but I don't want to make a decision without being well-informed of both of my options.

Degree: B.S. in Veterinary Science with minors in Biochemistry and Special Education Rehabilitation Programs (3 other associate degrees from CC after University)
Retook Physics 1 at a community college because I got a D in it the first semester. Aced it the second time around, so it goes to show that you can still get in with a bad grade!

Overall GPA: 3.47
Undergrad GPA: 3.43
Science GPA: 3.19
Last 45 GPA: 3.8

GRE: 155V/153Q/5.0AW

Vet Experience:
  • 2500+ Veterinary hours (companion animals, caprines, equine, avians, wildlife, fish, porcine, rodents, lagomorphs)
Animal Experience:
  • 2000+ Animal hours (companion animals, rodents, lagomorphs, avians)
Research:
  • 64 Research Hours (currently on an IACUC protocol for another project currently, but this was when my app was submitted)
Employment:
  • 300+ Employment Hours (non-animal related)
Honors/Awards
  • 3 different academic scholarships
  • Graduated with Highest Honors (4.0) from my CC
  • Dean's List for 3 different semesters at my university
  • Major Outstanding Senior nomination at my university
  • Academic Distinction for 1 year at my university
  • National Scholar
  • National Hispanic Honors Scholar
  • AP Scholar (I included this because of my AP classes being transferred to my university transcript)
  • Captain of Girl's Varsity Golf Team my senior year of HS (I included this because in one of my supplemental essays I talked about this experience)
Extracurriculars:
  • Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society
  • Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society
  • Alpha Zeta Professional Fraternity
  • Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society
eLORs:
  • 4 SA veterinarians who I worked with for over a year (graduated from Ross, PEI, Wisconsin, and Florida respectively)
  • 1 SA/emergency veterinarian who also was a professor at my university (graduated from Missouri)
Essays
Talked about my focus in One Health and how veterinarians are key members of the community when it comes to public health and education.
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Is that the science GPA Iowa calculated or VMCAS?
 
krupajl said:
Is that the science GPA Iowa calculated or VMCAS?
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It was VMCAS (sorry I should have clarified!)

Here is from my Iowa portal:

Required Science Course GPA: 3.13
Last 45 Credits GPA: 3.70
Cumulative GPA: 3.36

I did ask them why it was lower than my VMCAS GPA when I was at an Open House. My primary school (UA) was considered for my cumulative and my required science, and my CC and my grad school grades did not adjust my GPA since none of those had any requirements or prerequisites I was told that the portal is often lower than VMCAS, so I didn't worry too much.
 
thegoldendvm said:
Congrats on being accepted! I'm feeling much better after reading through the forum today. My cumulative is a 3.0 but my last 45 and Science GPA are 3.3 and 3.34 so I feel a little more confident that I may get pulled off the alternate list!
Have a little over 1200 small animal hours, 2500+ large animal, 500-600 research hours.
Just don't have the patience I need to have lol
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Sunshine in a Storm said:
I can’t wait to figure out where I fall on the alternate list. Hopefully, they will go through the entire list as they did last year and everyone who wants to be admitted from the list is! I know if I get pulled off the alternate list I am definitely saying Yesssssss!!!
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me too! ISU is my dream school with the USDA right there! I just wish we could take Florida's weather and put it in Iowa! I am from MN so I really shouldn't talk 🙂. Hopefully, it is an upgrade from MN! I will say I lived in CA for 6 years so I got a taste of year-round warm weather and loved it but I just love the Midwestern culture.
 
10999KL said:
It was VMCAS (sorry I should have clarified!)

Here is from my Iowa portal:

Required Science Course GPA: 3.13
Last 45 Credits GPA: 3.70
Cumulative GPA: 3.36

I did ask them why it was lower than my VMCAS GPA when I was at an Open House. My primary school (UA) was considered for my cumulative and my required science, and my CC and my grad school grades did not adjust my GPA since none of those had any requirements or prerequisites I was told that the portal is often lower than VMCAS, so I didn't worry too much.
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Thanks!. Your stats are close to mine except my GRE Quantitative is terrible and last 45 is 3.57 but science is 3.29 as calculated by Iowa. They look at so many factors though! I just hope to be pulled off the alternate before April. I know you also have a career focus on One Health! I am getting my masters at UF in One Health and looking at a P.h.D./DVM dual degree at Iowa.
 
krupajl said:
Thanks!. Your stats are close to mine except my GRE Quantitative is terrible and last 45 is 3.57 but science is 3.29 as calculated by Iowa. They look at so many factors though! I just hope to be pulled off the alternate before April. I know you also have a career focus on One Health! I am getting my masters at UF in One Health and looking at a P.h.D./DVM dual degree.
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I'm sure you will! The students I have talked too seem really confident that a lot of people will be pulled off.

How awesome you're also a One Health track! UFs home of (if not the?) original One Health graduate program; my program director talks about it lol. That's also why I was attracted to Iowa (USDA APHIS being down the road and the VDL so close and the National Animal Disease Center and the National Center for Animal Health ahhhhh! ). I would be leaving my MPH program in the middle of it by going to school thus Fall, so even if it's not in One Health, I want to finish my MPH wherever I end up ️
 
Should be finding about MN soon, hope I get in there so it opens up another wait list spot for one of you! Good luck everyone 🙂
 
10999KL said:
I'm sure you will! The students I have talked too seem confident that a lot of people will be pulled off.

How awesome you're also a One Health track! UFs home of (if not the?) original One Health graduate program; my program director talks about it lol. That's also why I was attracted to Iowa (USDA APHIS being down the road and the VDL so close and the National Animal Disease Center and the National Center for Animal Health ahhhhh! ). I would be leaving my MPH program in the middle of it by going to school thus Fall, so even if it's not in One Health, I want to finish my MPH wherever I end up ️
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Yeah, I will be one course and my research project short of getting my degree, but I am looking to see if my credits transfer to the DVM/MPH program at Iowa. Iowa and the University of Florida are my two top choice schools, so I am thrilled to even be an alternate at ISU. This year is competitive based on my conversation with admissions at different schools! I didn't get through the academic evaluation at Fl due to my low undergraduate GPA even though I have a Master of Science from their vet school. I feel like many of the vet schools make it harder for non-traditional applicants to get in. So many wouldn't even look at my application due to my grades from 20 years ago. I have so many credits I can't raise my cumulative GPA. One school even told me to retake all my undergraduate science courses (they do not include any graduate courses). I am thrilled Iowa just looks at recent grades once you make the cutoff. As far as One Health, I love my program at UF! The professors are so knowledgeable. Hopefully we will be classmates! Congratulations on getting accepted!
 
krupajl said:
Yeah, I will be one course and my research project short of getting my degree, but I am looking to see if my credits transfer to the DVM/MPH program at Iowa. Iowa and the University of Florida are my two top choice schools, so I am thrilled to even be an alternate at ISU. This year is competitive based on my conversation with admissions at different schools! I didn't get through the academic evaluation at Fl due to my low undergraduate GPA even though I have a Master of Science from their vet school. I feel like many of the vet schools make it harder for non-traditional applicants to get in. So many wouldn't even look at my application due to my grades from 20 years ago. I have so many credits I can't raise my cumulative GPA. One school even told me to retake all my undergraduate science courses (they do not include any graduate courses). I am thrilled Iowa just looks at recent grades once you make the cutoff. As far as One Health, I love my program at UF! The professors are so knowledgeable. Hopefully we will be classmates! Congratulations on getting accepted!
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@krupajl We have very similar GPA stats. I am also a non-traditional student and I have also found it difficult to raise the cumulative GPA. I went back to school and got another bachelors degree in order to raise my GPA. It didn't raise it as significantly as I wanted. So, I am currently working on a Masters as well, in microbiology. I wish my grades from 18-20 years ago would disappear, unfortunately they are not going to do so. I am also interested in a dual PhD/DVM program as well. Best of luck to you!
 
Sunshine in a Storm said:
@krupajl We have very similar GPA stats. I am also a non-traditional student and I have also found it difficult to raise the cumulative GPA. I went back to school and got another bachelors degree in order to raise my GPA. It didn't raise it as significantly as I wanted. So, I am currently working on a Masters as well, in microbiology. I wish my grades from 18-20 years ago would disappear, unfortunately they are not going to do so. I am also interested in a dual PhD/DVM program as well. Best of luck to you!
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Just throwing this out there - if you don’t have any luck this year try applying to Texas A&M next year and apply for the Texas Fresh Start Program. This disregards any grades older than 7 years from your GPA. However if any of your pre-reqs are exponged then you’d have to retake them. Good luck and I hope you get an acceptance this year! But if you don’t just know there are options 🙂
 
Adambuff said:
What do we know about Tornado likelihood at ISU?
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One of the fourth years I’m friends with has only experienced one warning his entire four years here. I’ve only been here since August but I have not experienced anything thus far
 
RedLauren said:
Just throwing this out there - if you don’t have any luck this year try applying to Texas A&M next year and apply for the Texas Fresh Start Program. This disregards any grades older than 7 years from your GPA. However if any of your pre-reqs are exponged then you’d have to retake them. Good luck and I hope you get an acceptance this year! But if you don’t just know there are options 🙂
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I looked into that but you have to be a Texas resident I think. I am going to try for Iowa again! Luckily they use the most recent! Thank-You for the info!
 
MAD MIKE O7 said:
It's in tornado alley so it's more likely than most places. That being said, I've lived in DFW my entire life which is also in tornado alley and you get used to it.

Ames, Story County, IA Tornadoes

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Minnesota has tornado warning practically every day in June. You do get used to it. The sky gets this eerie green and still feeling. I have never been hit but seen funnel clouds and they have been close. I just hope the trailer park isn't hit. 🙂
 
Adambuff said:
What do we know about Tornado likelihood at ISU?
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I'm from Iowa originally and, yeah really it's something you get used to, but the risk is less intense than people really think it is. We just on the northern edge of tornado alley, and since most of the state is farmland (aka, corn and soybeans), it's pretty uncommon for a town or city to get hit really bad.

I think across the last 5 years or so in the central part of Iowa I've probably experienced maybe 4 tornado warnings (a watch is when there's the possibility of a tornado, like the weather could produce one, whereas a warning is like there's tornadoes reported in the area and you should go to the basement immediately).
 
krupajl said:
Minnesota has tornado warning practically every day in June. You do get used to it. The sky gets this eerie green and still feeling. I have never been hit but seen funnel clouds and they have been close. I just hope the trailer park isn't hit. 🙂
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The trailer parks have multiple tornado shelters (that are in basements) in case there is a tornado warning - I just make sure that, in the spring and summer, I have anything that I may need to grab quick in case of a tornado all ready to go (but also know that it has never been necessary either).
 
Hi everyone! Does someone know the average amount of $$ given by the school in scholarships to an OOS student?
 
Iowa makes you get specific laptops correct? Are they the ones that can turn into tablets or just regular laptops?
 
Can anyone speak to how much small ruminant (main interest in dairy goats) and poultry experience happens at ISU? I want to work with cats/dogs and “backyard farming” stock, which is popular in CA cities. 🙂
 
bluechis said:
Can anyone speak to how much small ruminant (main interest in dairy goats) and poultry experience happens at ISU? I want to work with cats/dogs and “backyard farming” stock, which is popular in CA cities. 🙂
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There are classes in both specialty area available 3rd year. Like most things in vet med, you’re responsible for making some of your own opportunities. There are clubs to get your fix for your first two years, when most of your classes are more general. 3rd year you get access to more specialized classes. There is a 4th year rotation specifically for small ruminants, though I got to see plenty on my food animal rotations too. 4th year has plenty of time for externships, so you should be able to get experiences outside of those offered by the school. I know a couple alumni who have gone on to practice poultry medicine, so if you’re interested in it, you can find the appropriate mentorship at the school. Feel free to PM me if you have more specific questions. I graduated last year.
 
Parents called me today saying I had an acceptance letter from ISU...yet my portal still says I'm an OOS alternate. Called the admissions office, and they state that the person I need to speak with is out ill today. Are you telling me there's only one person that can inform me of my correct status?! Ugh! 🙁
 
PlasticForkk said:
Parents called me today saying I had an acceptance letter from ISU...yet my portal still says I'm an OOS alternate. Called the admissions office, and they state that the person I need to speak with is out ill today. Are you telling me there's only one person that can inform me of my correct status?! Ugh! 🙁
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I thought they only updated the portal. I had no idea they even sent out snail mail.

Whelp I guess I'll be franticly checking the mail from now until April.

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PlasticForkk said:
Parents called me today saying I had an acceptance letter from ISU...yet my portal still says I'm an OOS alternate. Called the admissions office, and they state that the person I need to speak with is out ill today. Are you telling me there's only one person that can inform me of my correct status?! Ugh! 🙁
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That’s stressful! I feel like I’d trust the letter! They often take a little while to update portals! If so congrats!
 
PlasticForkk said:
Just called admissions again. Turns out they sent the acceptance letter to me accidentally...was supposed to go to someone else with the same last name.
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The letter I got my first name was hand-written in it? How would they confuse last name and then not see a different first name when they went to write it.. I'm sorry..
 
PlasticForkk said:
Just called admissions again. Turns out they sent the acceptance letter to me accidentally...was supposed to go to someone else with the same last name.
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Oh my god that’s a nightmare. I’m sorry you had to ride that roller coaster.
 
PlasticForkk said:
Just called admissions again. Turns out they sent the acceptance letter to me accidentally...was supposed to go to someone else with the same last name.
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Are you serious? I’d be so upset! I’m so sorry!
 
Thanks for your condolences, everyone. Yes, I am extremely upset. And yes, my name was HANDWRITTEN on the letter. It seems as though all they can offer me are apologies. I just feel so discouraged at this point.
 
PlasticForkk said:
Thanks for your condolences, everyone. Yes, I am extremely upset. And yes, my name was HANDWRITTEN on the letter. It seems as though all they can offer me are apologies. I just feel so discouraged at this point.
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My heart sank when I read about this. I'm so sorry. I'm sending you all the positive vibes! Don't be discouraged!
 
Was reviewing ISU dress code policy. Does anyone know how strictly it is enforced?
 
balane9293 said:
Was reviewing ISU dress code policy. Does anyone know how strictly it is enforced?
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The students are the ones that started and continue the Thursday dressy days so those days are a little important but if you occasionally forget it's usually okay. No one wears sweatpants unless its after hours and jeans are pretty much the reality around here. You may see some students walking around in sweatpants but the masters students don't have a dress code like vet students.
 
izzie.holly said:
The students are the ones that started and continue the Thursday dressy days so those days are a little important but if you occasionally forget it's usually okay. No one wears sweatpants unless its after hours and jeans are pretty much the reality around here. You may see some students walking around in sweatpants but the masters students don't have a dress code like vet students.
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What about yoga pants? Or are those frowned upon? I basically live in them :laugh:
 
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