I honestly hope so, I am kinda freaking out because I haven't received an invite for CASPER but I turned in my application literally on the 15th so I am assuming that they are still sorting through the applications
Virginia-Maryland is drastically upping they’re timeline because of this, so we can hope!
MSU does not require Snapshot
I accidentally posted before finishing! I got an email from them that they do not require or look at the snapshot. Just the test itself!!
Thank you for this advice!!
I don’t think any schools are requiring the snapshot.. at least the other ones I applied to (K-State & Purdue)
I'm glad you are having a positive experience and I felt exactly the same as you do now during first year as well. I was a HUGE advocate for my entire first year of the new curriculum. I just thought it was hiccups in a new program. Our classes are STILL incomplete. I truly think prospective students should be aware that many students feel that the administration is failing them and we are very worried about NAVLE and how it will go for 2022.
Yes they sell it very well and now refuse to return emails about even the most simple of questions like when does winter break end. 2022 doesn't even have a schedule yet for post October 26th.
I haven't, but I did already submit my scores while I was sending others to other schools, so maybe that's why? Not sure how it would work if I hadn't submitted them already...
I am assuming that since there are no interviews this cycle then that gives the admission committee more time to start looking at applications. I am sure that it takes a good chunk of time to prep for interviews, prepare the school for tours and incoming interviewees, etc. and now since there are not doing that this year they can send out interview decisions early.As for those of us who received invitations before October, I don't know why they started sending them early. My only thought is their admissions committee is being proactive in their review process to speed up decision times as other schools are doing by reviewing applications as they were coming in early. Now that the deadline has passed I would assume there was a massive influx of applications for them to sort through, all this to say again, just relax. Unfortunately, this is a time-consuming process and there is added uncertainty with how COVID has impacted this cycle. All we can do is brew some coffee or hot chocolate, eat those amazing Halloween cookies (you know those with the pumpkins or ghost on them) and stream your favorite spooky movie while we wait through October for what it may bring.
I'm OOS. I hope it works out for you!
Haha I feel that! That's where I'm at for Western, I'm IS there and they haven't even reviewed my app yet
It seems like these last two semesters have really exacerbated our frustrations. I know most of us were very positive first year, and at least for me, I kept trying to say that second year sucked because, well it sucks, but really second semester, even prior to COVID was very surprising. They tried to stuff all of musculoskeletal into 2 weeks, including learning all of Dejardin's surgical options for orthopedics. We didn't have a schedule for all of April Spring of 2020 before COVID even happened. We really tried to give them leeway once COVID started, but then for Fall 2020 to AGAIN not have one of our classes ready or AGAIN not give a schedule to us til a week prior to start and then it was only three weeks, and then the Sunday that 3 week period ended we got just 6 more weeks (that was just M-F 8-12 - very simple, no sections, just refused to release that info??). I'm not sure why you think that you would have heard about these issues, are you in our private facebook page? I'm guessing not since your profile says you are a 4th year.
I am assuming if you didn't receive an invite then you probably won't hear back from the school until November(possible interview alternate??). I am also wondering when decisions will be released since they are moving quickly with the application process.
This is not just an MSU struggle. Illinois doesn’t give us our schedule until maybe the week before classes. With COVID in March we got our schedule just a couple days before starting back up online after spring break. We don’t have a schedule for the second 8 weeks of this semester yet either and probably won’t until next week. We have had many lectures videos either not uploaded, uploaded late, or changed to a zoom live lecture with no notice (literally not even an email saying it was live, leading to 90% of the class showing up 20 minutes late, if at all). We have three different websites we have to check for lecture recordings and lecture powerpoints. It’s annoying, but its not the worst thing. It’s because we are in a ****ing pandemic and things are crazy right now and EVERYONE (faculty, admin, students) is trying to adjust.
I apologize for being hostile I just felt like you were trying to imply I was not a real student or something
Have you also had 2.5 years of 3 week long classes that were not finished prior to starting them? That had content created and added after the class was already finished "for the next class"? And just being told over and over again that your struggles help the next year? I doubt it. The scheduling issues happened prior to covid which is what I was trying to tell you. We don't have schedules because they are creating our classes on the fly and they aren't done yet. We were told that year two will be ready in time and then it wasn't. We were told year three would be ready in time and then it wasn't. I think its important for someone, anyone, to tell these students that its a **** show and they should go somewhere else if they can.
For the record (and as a 1st year), it seems like these issues are specific to your class being the guinea pigs for the new curriculum. So I don’t think it’s fair to tell new applicants to stay away from MSU when it’s much better after a few years of figuring out the kinks. AND figuring out how to teach professional students during a pandemic. J/S
This exactly. There are going to be a ton of administrative nightmares because of COVID (we’re currently dealing with one right now with junior surgery) but for the most part, class curriculum should be created for future classes already, since they’ve already had to teach with the same curriculum, just likely need to make slight changes year to year. Creating a new curriculum itself is a logistics nightmare. The same people creating the curriculum are also trying to teach other years at the same time. And it does suck being put on the back burner with your curriculum. Some of our stuff is being overhauled this year too (mainly therio) and it’s a nightmare and then with COVID added on top, it’s even worse. But I know it will change for future years and they won’t have to deal with the same nightmare I’m having to go through. That’s just what happens when there’s an overhaul and you’re a guinea pig, unfortunately. It sucks. I get that.For the record (and as a 1st year), it seems like these issues are specific to your class being the guinea pigs for the new curriculum. So I don’t think it’s fair to tell new applicants to stay away from MSU when it’s much better after a few years of figuring out the kinks. AND figuring out how to teach professional students during a pandemic. J/S
