I can confirm this. Please, if you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, reach out for help.
When they didn't say a cause, I suspected as much. Just heartbreaking. I keep thinking about her every time I see my (bengal) kitty... 🙁
I know which one you mean, and I'm in the same boat.
I just know I'm not going to have time before 1 tomorrow, so I have to finish it before bed. This is one time I'd rather talk about myself.
Yeah, I'm going to try to finish it tonight so I don't have to rush in the morning. I thought my diversity statement for Florida would be so much more difficult, but I had it done weeks before the deadline!
Well I just submitted mine. My sleepy brain can't tell me if that was a good idea or not, but I answered the questions in the prompt and it's out of my hands now. Along with $60.
My boyfriend is currently applying for undergrad (he's not younger than me, he just didn't go to college straight out of high school and is currently finishing up at community college) and he was complaining about application fees tonight, and I was like "you don't get to talk." 😛
UF - $30
Though I do think they ran their admissions stuff really well, just seemed silly at the time.
EDIT: Found it in my micro classroom!
I think it's because they're doing more of the work for you by not making you fill out a supplemental.I'm convinced that the less there is for their supplemental, the greater their additional application fee. This all based on UMN's $85 (I think, this is from waay back in 2012 when I was applying) supplemental fee with NO supplemental application. Doesn't make sense, but what can you do?
In all honesty if all the schools wanted to charge me $75 for a supplement and in exchange I wouldn't have to fill out prerequisite course forms 4 times...I might be ok with it
I wonder if the schools could take specific information straight from the VMCAS instead of us filling out more forms. Like Purdue has a course verification form. Wouldn't courses be verified through the VMCAS verification process?
Supplementals like that make sense to me, because it allows you to point out exactly which courses you intend to fulfill the prerequisites, rather than them having to hunt through all your coursework and maybe miss something that's not obviously named. There are other supplementals that are very repetitive from VMCAS, though. So what dovelover is saying is that if schools don't have a supplemental or have a shorter supplemental, they have to find/pull more of your information from VMCAS themselves -- you're paying for them to do the work for you. But Purdue's supplemental is very simple and free, while Florida's was the most involved one I had this year, and it was $30, cheaper than any of the others I had with fees. So that correlation is weak if it does exist.
It has never made sense to me that we have to fill out those forms when they have access to our transcripts AND VMCAS coursework lists. I'm sure they go back and look through the courses to make sure they match up with our transcripts anyway, so why can't they figure out the prereqs themselves?
What I mean is that most of the supplementals I filled out made you do things like listing which of your courses fulfilled their prerequisites, as well as re-enter a lot of the info from VMCAS organized in a way they wanted to see it in. If they choose not make us do that, they have to take the time to organize the information how they want to. But I'm just speculating. Who really knows why they do things the way they do.
Yeah, Penn's took me all of 10 minutes. The only thing on there that they maybe wouldn't have known from VMCAS was your primary interest and how many hours you had in it.
Yeah the primary interest thing was really bothering me. I am very interested in zoo medicine but i have more than double the hours in private practice because it was a lot easier to get the hours there than in a zoo. And apparently I'm unlucky because the zoos in both of the areas I live in don't allow volunteers to work in the hospital, so the rest of my zoo experience is animal hours. The only reason I have any zoo experience at all is because of the National Aviary.
It might just be that your school bundles the lab with the lecture on your transcript. They do that here with gen chem, lab is included in the 4 credit lecture. Did you actually get a separate grade in the organic lab, or was it combined with your lecture grade?
Ok, you should be fine then. The schools are aware that labs are included in some lecture courses. On the NCSU supplemental app for instance, on the prerequisite form it gave specific instructions for how to fill out the lab requirement if it was included with the lecture. I got AP credit for Chem 1 and 2 which both included labs, and neither of the labs have a separate line on my transcript either. So don't worry, all is well 🙂They were put together for a grade; but I don't even have a "Organic Chemistry I Lab" line on my transcript. It's not like it's listed as 0 credits and had a blank for a grade. It's just not on there at all. Which is kind of scary truth being told and I want to apply next cycle for c/o 2020 but if I don't even have labs written on there when I've taken a lab, that's probably not going to happen.
Literally the exact same. I have AP (or IB, can't remember which) credit for one semester of intro bio too.Are you serious?
I'm using AP credit for my General Chemistry classes and a semester of Basic Biology, which is why I about had a cow. I just need to breathe; it's not even my application year, haha!
Thanks, WildZoo. 😀
Just remember that generally (I think anyway, someone can correct me if I'm wrong) you have to be living in a state for a year before you can claim residency. So if your parents haven't moved to FL yet, you would still be applying as OOS, though you might be able to get your residency changed before matriculation if you were accepted.
I put down zoo as my interest, had almost all of my vet hours at a zoo and a significant chunk of my animal hours at a zoo, and didn't even get an interview at Penn, despite it being my in state and getting interviews at 4 out of state schools. Based on what I'd heard somewhere about them liking you having your hours in your interest area, I thought that would help me there. But apparently not. They are one school which I have not really figured out in terms of what they really care about in applications... it seems kinda random. They're not very open to sharing about their process (or so was my experience) like most schools... which is kinda what annoyed the crap out of me about them during the admissions process.
That is so strange. I did notice that it is one school where nobody really has anything to say about what they tend to look for. Like everyone knows UF weighs GRE a little heavier than most schools for example, but I don't know anything about what Penn is looking for. Maybe it is completely random
