General Admissions & OTCAS OTCAS Issue

[OTsophie]

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I just submitted my application to OTCAS yesterday and was upset to see that my experience section had many mistakes on it. There was a glitch yesterday on OTCAS that I saw before submitting it and it read as error. After reviewing my experience section again everything looked fine and I submitted it. After looking at it after I submitted it, I saw many mistakes ( around 11) on it such as there appearing to be random question marks on my application experience section and some missing periods that were there before I submitted. I am very upset and nervous this will affect my chance of getting into an OT school. I have been working on this application for a month a half and have great stats so far. I did not have any other mistakes on any other part of my application but I am just seeking any advice on what I should do. I am not sure if contacting OTCAS will fix it as they state that you can not edit after submitting. Any advice would be helpful.

 

[Thughey]

I had the same mistake with OTCAS that for my personal statement, it only submitted part of my essay and not the whole thing. So I was freaking out that no schools would accept me because half of my essay was missing. So I emailed each of the schools saying what happened and I attached the whole version of my essay. All of the school representatives were very kind about it and said they made the change to my application to include my entire essay. So I would say contact all of your schools and explain the computer error. I did contact OTCAS as well, and they said there is nothing they can do once an application is submitted.

 

[OTsophie]

I had the same mistake with OTCAS that for my personal statement, it only submitted part of my essay and not the whole thing. So I was freaking out that no schools would accept me because half of my essay was missing. So I emailed each of the schools saying what happened and I attached the whole version of my essay. All of the school representatives were very kind about it and said they made the change to my application to include my entire essay. So I would say contact all of your schools and explain the computer error. I did contact OTCAS as well, and they said there is nothing they can do once an application is submitted.

Thanks for the advice! I’m happy the schools were understanding. Yeah, luckily my personal essay was fine but it was my whole experience section was what was messed up. I think I will make a word document correcting all the mistakes that I saw and ask if I can send it to each school if OTCAS can not fix it. I’m still not verified so I hope they can fix this issue since it was a computer error.

 

[@OTapplying]

I had an issue with my resume that my layout did not stay once I uploaded to OTCAS as a word document. When you publish it as a PDF (for personal statement- doesnt work for experiences) it will save your format. Hope that tip helps!

 

[OTsophie]

I had an issue with my resume that my layout did not stay once I uploaded to OTCAS as a word document. When you publish it as a PDF (for personal statement- doesnt work for experiences) it will save your format. Hope that tip helps!

Thank you for the tip. Yeah I’m thinking about emailing each school a revision of my experiences since mine sis hard to read now. This is if OTCAS doesn’t let me fix it. It just sucks after working so hard on this application.