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I highly recommend reading over past interview questions here: http://schools.studentdoctor.net/sc...versity-college-of-veterinary-medicine#panel2
Nah. But is it relevant anyway, an interview is an interview once you've got one.
I emailed them about this last year they take the highest grade and add it to the calculation
So they don't factor in the first poor grade? Or they factor both in to average it ?
If I remember correctly they just include the highest grade, except for your last 45 hours GPA where they will include both if both were in your last 45 hours.
Congrats! Best of luck!
They sent out the first weekend invites out on three separate days so there's still hope for even the second weekend for us! 🙂
I hear it's a lot cheaper to fly into Kansas City and rent a car to drive to Manhattan!
When do they send out rejections?
Seems to vary how they do it, but from what I've seen on here previously not for a while. In the past they haven't been very aggressive about sending the bad news, so I wouldn't expect that until well into next year. I think they put some people into a category of alternates for interviews too, if they want more or have people who decline/cancel. Until January is ticking by, don't start having the oh crap thoughts if it's still radio silence.
I don't know all mine off the top of my head, but I definitely didn't have the highest gpa but did have pretty good GRE scores (153V, 160Q, 4.5 writing). Also, I didn't have a super high number of vet hours (but lots of animal hours). Hoping you get an interview too!!
She is THE BEST my VMCAS got messed up due to snail mail :/ and she worked with me to get it fixed! I also worked in the diagnostic medicine/pathology lab for a year before the research project funding got cut :,( and when I ran stuff to her she would always take time to chat with me
Personally I think open file interviews are much easier, because the committee already knows a bit about your experiences and personality (on paper at least) and you don't have to start from scratch telling them about yourself. If you come off poorly on paper it might be a disadvantage, lol, but I liked having the opportunity to explain the weak spots on my application. I never had to do an MMI, but they sound very intimidating! I had one closed-file behavioral interview with Illinois and it didn't go so well, I absolutely could not think of an example for one of their "tell me about a time when..." questions, even days afterward. K State's interviews are very conversational and laidback, I was super nervous but my interviewers put me at ease.
