If they treat the OOS webinar as the same as the IS webinar, then yes! Getting an invite is akin to an ‘interview invite’ and from there, MSU will look at your CASPer scores as your ‘interview’! Those invited are basically ‘accepted or waitlisted’.
Yeah that’s fair I was just curious! I’m down in Florida and I know OOS is very competitive and schools look at different things! Heard from Auburn and UF yesterday so fingers crossed!
OOS rejection too but also got into midwestern and extremely grateful as well.OOS Rejection, but thankfully I got into Midwestern! Good luck to everyone!
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They told in-state “some time in the new year.” So I’d imagine OOS will be after that..
Non-trad 30yr female, science GPA 3.93, last 45 GPA 3.92, cGPA 3.87, 3000+ vet experience SA (shelter, GP with some exotic animal experience, ER), no LA vet experience. 200ish animal experience with zoo and farm animals, 2000+ research experience in social sciences and biomedical research.
Don't let this defeat you! I think your stats are good, just keep accumulating vet experience - companion animal hospitals (GP and ER alike) are really overwhelmed with increased clients during Covid, and vet techs/assistants are in high demand!OOS rejection. Big congratulations and good luck to those invited! I’m excited for you.
Not to extrapolate too much from a few anecdotes (!= anecdata etc), but it does seem to me like they are looking more heavily at veterinary experience and personal growth/overcoming adversity than at other aspects of applications. To add one more anecdote (or anecdatum
- 4.0 GPA
- 1900 h animal experience with cats, horses, wildlife, poultry, goats, and dogs
- 560 h research
- only 270 (now 330) h veterinary experience
Either 1/8 from 12-1:30pm or 1/22 from 5-6:30 pm! It says when you confirm your place at the webinar via the link that they gave in their email.
clearly not hopeless if you got the webinar invite! How do you know you did so poorly on CASPer? Their scoring process still seems like a mystery to me.
I'm a 32-year old non-traditional applicant from New Jersey. cGPA is around a 3.35, science GPA around a 3.1, last-45 credit is 3.6 something, MSU-specific last-36 is 3.83. ~4000 hours SA GP, ~500 hours equine/ruminant GP, CVT certification obtained in Wisconsin, ~25 hours non-lab research, over 10,000 animal experience (equine/dog/cat), had a full other career before starting vet med in politics. I wholeheartedly agree with everyone above that MSU seems to really favor a balanced, nuanced, interesting person with diverse practical experience. That being said, I'm not sure what was different this time around, but I received a straight rejection last year with non significantly different stats (other than my last-36 GPA being closer to 3.6). The only thing I can think of is that my CASPer scores were compelling enough to grant me further consideration - one of my truly strong skills is responding & articulating on my feet, so I found CASPer fairly straightforward.
It’s very laid back and basically the equivalent of like the interview dinner thing they’d do if this we all in person? The dean spoke to us first and gave a brief about the college, and then different faculty spoke to us about the program and what to expect in different years. Financial aide went over tuition, potential scholarships, FAFSA, etc so you could get an idea of costs and everything. At the end, we had a Q&A with students from different years. Bring along any and all questions you may have! They’ll do their best to answer them all during the webinar and then send out a transcript later on with answers!
That’s exactly it! It has no bearing on your application at all.
CASPer scores are the last thing they’ll evaluate, and then it sounds like decisions will be based on file review and CASPer scores! At this point, you’re accepted or waitlisted! At least, that’s how it is for IS, but it may differ some for OOS since you guys have two potential webinar dates, and we had one. Or they learned having one was overwhelming for questions and split it up for less people for OOS.
OH interesting! Huh, well then we’ll see about my CASPer score I guess! Thanks for the info!
+1 to your entire post! Rejected from Auburn & Purdue in the last 24 hours, rejected from KSU & UIUC earlier this cycle, on the waitlist for VMCVM but not overly optimistic. This definitely made my day of crappy catheter placement & screaming French Bulldogs better!
seems like we both had the same day, since I also got rejected by Iowa today. The only difference is that I had a fractious beagle screaming all day instead of a Frenchie, lol.+1 to your entire post! Rejected from Auburn & Purdue in the last 24 hours, rejected from KSU & UIUC earlier this cycle, on the waitlist for VMCVM but not overly optimistic. This definitely made my day of crappy catheter placement & screaming French Bulldogs better!
No problem! And honestly, same! MSU had to send a clarification email stating they hadn’t looked at applicants CASPer scores pre-webinar invite. I think it was misleading when they sent everyone who met their GPA minimum a CASPer invite. They should’ve clarified more they had to do this since CASPer had limited testing dates.
I dressed up a smidge but only because I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. However, your camera and mic will NOT be on— so I wouldn’t worry about dressing up!
Thank god. I will be attending with a few hours of sleep after an overnight shift and will probably be a hot mess.
Don’t be discouraged about CASPer scores! If MSU is treating OOS the same as IS, CASPer scores were not considered for the webinar invite. Only the fact that you completed CASPer. The webinar invite was based on file review alone.
I had all my science pre-reqs complete so I’m not sure what the form looks like if you don’t, what are the options? I would assume you just have to tell them you will have it completed by June 2021 like the general education pre-req check box options.
