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I've made a thread for Minnesota C/O 2015!
Welcome all!
My name's Mary. I'm an OOS applicant
Welcome all!
My name's Mary. I'm an OOS applicant
I'm an OOS applicant Minnesota too! Although, I went to undergrad in the twin cities and my fiancee is a born and raised Minnesotan - so UMn is high on my list.
Does anyone know if Minnesota lets you become a resident (for tuition) after your first year? I feel like I have a pretty good case - my fiancee and I only left Minnesota to pursue education (it just happened that our graduate school required us to become local residents). Even if I don't get into vet school, we might head back to Minnesota. If you can't tell, I love the twin cities, winter and all .
Just FYI, Minnesota will be interviewing IS applicants on Thursdays and OOS applicants on Fridays and Saturdays on Jan. 27-29, Feb. 3-5 and Feb. 10-12 this cycle.
Elliepants and I will both be student ambassadors, so hopefully we'll see you all there!
Thanks for the info! Any idea when the invites start going out? I thought maybe the beginning of January, but figured I would ask anyway
ETA: Looked it up: via e-mail on Jan. 11. Everyone got their invite on the same day. The previous year, it was Jan. 12. Hope that helps!
Just FYI, Minnesota will be interviewing IS applicants on Thursdays and OOS applicants on Fridays and Saturdays on Jan. 27-29, Feb. 3-5 and Feb. 10-12 this cycle.
Elliepants and I will both be student ambassadors, so hopefully we'll see you all there!
I got an interview invite !! I accepted of course, but my main concern is the weather... I'm from southern California and hate the cold!!
I got an interview invite !! I accepted of course, but my main concern is the weather... I'm from southern California and hate the cold!!
Congrats to everyone getting interview invites today! I will likely be declining my interview, but it is a really hard thing for me to do as there are so many things I think I would love about UMn! Going to do some serious soul searching in the next few days before making up my mind by Monday... this has been a crazy and intense application cycle for me, that's for sure!
Good luck on interviews, everyone!
Come and interview! See the school and meet the students before you decide. I can't tell you how many OOSers in my class nearly declined their interview but decided to check out the school and it so much they choose it over their IS or previous first choice...
That is exactly what I keep worrying about! I'm worried that if I don't go I won't know what I am missing out on, and I am worried that if I do go I will fall in such love that I will want to go there! I really do want to go and check it out for myself, but I don't want to feel like I am taking an opportunity away from someone that doesn't have other options. I never thought an interview offer would make me this conflicted! Minnesota was very high on my original list...
That is exactly what I keep worrying about! I'm worried that if I don't go I won't know what I am missing out on, and I am worried that if I do go I will fall in such love that I will want to go there!
Me too, but my worries are based more around how dang expensive tuition will be for me OOS. I've been accepted to Ohio which will cost over 50k less, but I suspect I would love MN but just not want to deal with the extra loans.
You can gain in state tuition after a year, from what I've heard .
It's not likely. I just spend ten minutes on the phone talking about this with the woman who handles residency issues. You have to live in MN for a year and not be taking classes to be get it, otherwise there are a bunch of little things you can try to help your case if you appeal after one year. You can PM me if you want more details.
It's not likely. I just spend ten minutes on the phone talking about this with the woman who handles residency issues. You have to live in MN for a year and not be taking classes to be get it, otherwise there are a bunch of little things you can try to help your case if you appeal after one year. You can PM me if you want more details.
KonKat: the interviews are behavioral in nature. Many past questions can be found at http://www.studentdoctor.net/schools/school/umn-vet/survey/33 . Be sure to expand the "Questions" section at the bottom.
Parietal,
Whenever I go to that link to look at the questions it says that the results have been blocked by the school. I was wondering if there were questions posted on another website? I've looked at some of the questions posted for other schools but it seems that the questions tend to be specific at each school. The other information on that website is very helpful.
Thanks!
Question: Can you gain residency if your wife works full-time in minnesota while you go to vet school??
Ouch, they blocked the sample questions? Harsh, Minnesota!
What is the best way to prepare for the interview? I know it is a behavioral based interview, but is there a list of specific questions I can mull over ahead of time? How many interviewers are there?
Anyone know how many people will be interviewing? I'm curious as to what the acceptance/rejection ratio is at this point... and a little nervous, considering there appear to be 6 full days of interviews planned.
Last year they interviewed about 89 in-staters. (About 55 got seats and about 30 were placed on the in-state waitlist.)
I don't know how many out-of-staters were interviewed, though, sorry. (We have 45 out-of-staters in our class, and they went to about 25 or 30 on the out-of-state waitlist, I believe.)
Hope that helps...
Elliepants and I will both be student ambassadors, so hopefully we'll see you all there!