*proceeds to recite your school chant*
I really enjoy that the second half of your quote hyperlinks to my username
maybe it's fixed now. My computer was on the struggle bus hard core
I was very excited to meet you!! Glad you’ll never forget the UIUC school chant
Same! Are you planning to go to Cornell?
I think my white coat ceremony will coincide
but as of right now, we’re waiting on updates to the schedule. So we’ll see
Is no one applying to Illinois this year
Is no one applying to Illinois this year
You are correct. We do megacourses. So you have all your classes exams in a big exam instead of separate and separate grades. BUT that also means you don’t have multiple tests weekly. We split the semesters into 8 week quarters. You have a midterm on all your classes at week 4 (one day non-cumulative) and a final on them at week 8 (one day non-cumulative, one day cumulative for first year). These two exams are combined (plus quizzes at week 2&6 first year and some other stuff, but exams are ~25% of your grade each first year iirc?) for your grade for the quarter. Then you do 8 weeks in clinics and don’t really get an actual grade for that and then after Christmas you have two more quarters for two more grades. That means you have nine total grades throughout your vet school career. You need a 60% each quarter and a 70% overall at the end of the year to move on. GPA doesn’t really mean much here BECAUSE you only have 9 grades factored into it by the end of 3rd year.
Which part is confusing you? I’ll try to explain better.
I was pretty sure it was around 25% because of those things but I didn’t feel like going on intranet
Something to keep in mind is that this is not something new for IL, so all programs are well aware of how they rank students. Plenty of IL grads get internships and residencies, so if that's what you want, you can too. I don't think worrying every semester about your rank helps in any way. It's more about the connections you make and trying your best to understand the material.
Something to keep in mind is that this is not something new for IL, so all programs are well aware of how they rank students. Plenty of IL grads get internships and residencies, so if that's what you want, you can too. I don't think worrying every semester about your rank helps in any way. It's more about the connections you make and trying your best to understand the material.
@batsenecal has the numbers on how many we’ve lost to grades in the recent years. My class lost no one to grades first year from what I’ve heard!For sure, definitely not stressing about it but it is something to think about. I’m in the wanting everyone to succeed camp so that environment may not be ideal for me knowing every question on every exam makes a difference. But I’ll cross that bridge if I am even accepted there
But my point was worrying about every point isn't necessary. I would hope that the students would realize after years of fourth years being accepted for internships/residencies, that they would quit being so uptight about IL particular style of ranking. Guess it's the type A that live in that world though. heheFor sure, definitely not stressing about it but it is something to think about. I’m in the wanting everyone to succeed camp so that environment may not be ideal for me knowing every question on every exam makes a difference. But I’ll cross that bridge if I am even accepted there
Definitely use sources, but they don’t necessarily have to be research papers as your sources. co 22’s cycle was about working dogs and vet care and I used articles from the AVMA, AAVMC, National Geographic, NPR, ABC News (about a specific military working dog), and only one actual journal that had a case study. Mine was about 6500 characters with spaces, excluding the bibliography, but that’s only because I was really excited about and into the topic. Im not sure exactly what the essay topic is this year, but if you can, find some part about the topic that really interests you and just go at it. Write about what interests YOU about the topic, not just what you think the admissions committee wants to hear. Remember, they have to read hundreds of these same essays.
Thank you! It is about the Opioid crisis affecting working dogs and veterinary care in emergent conditions with this and regular veterinary care for working dogs. Illinois actually has a video out about this situation so I definitely planned on referencing that but I don't want to sound like a suck up, they just happen to be the ones who made the video I found.
I am!Is no one applying to Illinois this year
. Thanks in advanced- this is the only thing holding me back from submitting my whole VMCAS!
Wondering if anyone would be willing to share how long their opioid essay ended up being? I'm wondering if the 10k character limit was set so it could be as long as we felt we needed, or if they actually want us to write that length? I just feel like my response was pretty concise and I don't want to submit 5-6k characters if they're really looking for the full 10k. I'm a very to-the-point writer
My essay when I applied was around 6k! They just have to give you a word count in VMCAS so I think 10k was probably just the highest they could give. Then if you do citations or anything you don’t have to worry about that taking up any of your precious character countWondering if anyone would be willing to share how long their opioid essay ended up being? I'm wondering if the 10k character limit was set so it could be as long as we felt we needed, or if they actually want us to write that length? I just feel like my response was pretty concise and I don't want to submit 5-6k characters if they're really looking for the full 10k. I'm a very to-the-point writer
I only remember mine because I looked it up the other day when someone else had a question and I was already on my laptop
Will be at Illinois next year! Deferred this past year but already sent in my deposit to be a part of next year’s class - very much looking forward to it
Definitely contact admissions directly and ask. Then you’ll get an official answer from the people evaluating your application and can make a decision whether to apply or not. I would try calling Monday to get the fastest answer vs email, just since it’s so close to the application deadline.What do they mean by "Illinois science GPA"? Do they use their own calculation or is it the same one as the VMCAS science GPA? My VMCAS science GPA is hovering at 2.79 and lots of non-prereq courses counted towards this GPA, like health and kinesiology. I don't want to waste money applying to IL if I don't make their cutoff
You won’t hear anything until December iirc when they tell you if you did or did not make it through phase 1 and onto phase 2. Mid January you should hear about interview invites for our one date in mid February.
Last few cycles it was nothing until December iirc
VMCAS doesn’t allow italicizing or bolding so you should be fine!
I did the same thing, when in doubt MLA is easy and I did my due diligence seeing as they didn't specify anything about citations.
