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so, do we have a consensus about whether or not this is a batch by batch thing or an all interview invites were sent out today thing?
 
sewak said:
so, do we have a consensus about whether or not this is a batch by batch thing or an all interview invites were sent out today thing?
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I'm not sure, but I think they must have already selected the interviewees? Or maybe not since it says "approximately"..... The invite said this: "This year, we received 1013 applications for admission to the Class of 2018. Approximately 240 of the most competitive applicants will interview for one of the 138 positions available."
 
cadisestrama said:
There's a pizza dinner the night before with first years? I didn't know that. haha. Unless it's your friends... then.... probably not since I'm an outsider. So, I'll see you at the orientation/luncheon/presentation/tour thingies instead? 🙂
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Yeah, go to "Interview Directions" on the portal, and at the end of the driving directions, there's a section called "Meet other Veterinary Students the Night before or Evening of the Interview!" and a link to sign up. You can do it the night before (unless that's a Sunday night I think) or the day of your interview. It sounds like a good opportunity to meet current students and see what the environment at the school is like.
 
Appreciate the info WillowLeaf but I unfortunately haven't been offered an interview yet. I was curious if anyone else was offered anything today or if they all went out yesterday.
 
cadisestrama said:
There's a pizza dinner the night before with first years? I didn't know that. haha. Unless it's your friends... then.... probably not since I'm an outsider. So, I'll see you at the orientation/luncheon/presentation/tour thingies instead? 🙂
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hahaha no its not with my friends! check your interview directions on your portal, there is an option to have dinner with first year students at 5:30 the night before your interview. sounds like a good idea if you are able to do it!
 
Congrats guys. I won't really be seeing many of you when you come by. They keep us 3rd years locked away 😉 but hope interviews go fabulously and I look forward to seeing you around next year. I'll meet some of your class when you come in to the hospital for one day shadowing every few weeks. Do well and best of luck!
 
PhatHippo49 said:
hahaha no its not with my friends! check your interview directions on your portal, there is an option to have dinner with first year students at 5:30 the night before your interview. sounds like a good idea if you are able to do it!
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Haha yeah. WillowLeaf clarified that for me. I was so excited about the interview schedule that I completely disregarded the directions and interview info.
 
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I guess it's safe to assume that if we don't hear by tomorrow, we're not getting an interview?
 
For those of you that received invites, were you able to select from all of the interview dates? And congratulations! 🙂
 
I'm pretty sure all the interview invites got sent at once, because it wouldn't be fair for the people in the "2nd batch" of invites to get 2nd picks on the interview dates.
 
I got an interview invite today! Not sure why it was later than the first round but maybe because I also applied for vstp? The email I got said there was slots set aside for us because we needed certain times to coordinate both interviews. I'm oos in New Jersey if that helps.

Good luck everyone who is interviewing wait listed or waiting!! Hope to see some of you 🙂
 
Darn.. No interview or wait list notification yet, guessing this is not my year. Ah well, best of luck to everyone interviewing, and I hope the wait listers get off and get a chance to interview as well!! 🙂
 
Just got my rejection email 🙁 good luck to everyone else that is interviewing!
 
I haven't gotten anything, not even a rejection email. At this point I'm just waiting for the rejection email anyway. Oh well, try again next year! Good luck to all the interviewees!!
 
Hey all--just wanted to drop by and say hang in there to those who were rejected! Seems so long ago, but last year I felt like my life was over because my Davis was my IS and rejected me first (kind of coldly too.. portal changed to a big fat DENIED haha). I ended up getting in other places. Davis is a tough pool and different schools look at your stats differently. Other schools may see something that Davis didn't! 🙂 Good luck to you all!
 
Does anyone know how many OOS applicants they ask to interview?
 
I received an email a few days ago telling me I'm on the interview wait list! Anyone else in the same boat? I'm curious to know how many people got put on the wait list. Also, Anyone know how many slots are remaining on the interview schedule?
 
jammybean said:
I received an email a few days ago telling me I'm on the interview wait list! Anyone else in the same boat? I'm curious to know how many people got put on the wait list. Also, Anyone know how many slots are remaining on the interview schedule?
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I'm on the waitlist, too. I don't think it is possible for waitlisters to know how many slots are left. I'm just happy with this slight nod of encouragement. Being on the interview waitlist is like a quarter of a chance. So if another school gives me a quarter chance, that's a half a chance total, which is all I ever wanted.
 
jammybean said:
I received an email a few days ago telling me I'm on the interview wait list! Anyone else in the same boat? I'm curious to know how many people got put on the wait list. Also, Anyone know how many slots are remaining on the interview schedule?
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There's 5 slots left. All of them are on Dec 12th. good luck - hang in there guys! vacameanscow - you repeatedly crack me up with your posts. 🙂
 
Only 1 spot remaining for interviews 🙁
 
Hi guys, could others who got interviews post their stats and whether they are in-state or oos?
 
Sure, here's my stats:
OOS, first time applicant, non-trad
As calculated by Davis:
Cum gpa: 3.58
Last 45 hr: 3.98
Overall science: 3.75
GRE quant/verbal: 161/159
Vet exp: ~2500 hrs vet tech at sa/exotics hospital
Animal exp: all sa (fostering, shelter volunteering, tnr, etc)
 
mya411 said:
Hi guys, could others who got interviews post their stats and whether they are in-state or oos?
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oos
GRE verbal= 163, quant=161
cumulative gpa=3.83
OVerall Science= 3.92
Last 45= 3.91
Vet experience: ~260 Shadowing Lg/Small
Research: ~400 hours
 
OOS
Cum/Sci/Last 45 - 3.82/3.74/3.89
V/Q/W - 155/163/5
Experience - ~2000 small animal/surgery tech and some exotics, ~100+ equine
Research as undergrad
 
I have a question about the MMI interview... is it a conversation or more one-sided on your part? Because I don't think I can manage to talk 8 minutes about something. 🤐
 
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For the most part it's one-sided. You will have a short period of time (5-6 minutes maybe) to read a prompt, and then enter the room. There the interviewer will introduce him/herself, and begin. They may give you a hypothetical situation relating to the prompt, or ask you questions about the prompt itself. And you answer.

The large majority of it is "in your opinion" and "why do you think that". They are not allowed to give you feedback, so it can be intimidating because you'll answer and they'll just stare at you! You have to be confident though, and just keep being honest with your answers. If you have a real opinion about something, share it.

The interviews were 7 minutes long I think last year? Close to that. I had extra time with all but one, so don't worry about that. It's better to answer truthfully and succinctly and sit in silence for 2 minutes, than to ramble about nothing just to fill time.
*One tip I will give is that there is always a clock in the room. When you enter the room make sure you note the time and pay attention to it! If you glance over and you have a lot of time yet, slow down on your next response and flesh it out. If you're running out of time, answer quickly.

To be honest there isn't much preparation that can be done in advance. If you were to feel like you NEEDED practice, then I would have a friend come up with a story that has some sort of moral ambiguity and print it out for you. Read it, and then have them ask you questions. "Which person do you agree with, and why?" "If this were changed in the story, would your opinion change as well?" "How do you think this relates to vet med?". The point is simply to get you to form an answer that makes sense and can be given within a reasonable amount of time. The extent to which this would help is minimal though, in all honesty.
 
Falina said:
For the most part it's one-sided. You will have a short period of time (5-6 minutes maybe) to read a prompt, and then enter the room. There the interviewer will introduce him/herself, and begin. They may give you a hypothetical situation relating to the prompt, or ask you questions about the prompt itself. And you answer.

The large majority of it is "in your opinion" and "why do you think that". They are not allowed to give you feedback, so it can be intimidating because you'll answer and they'll just stare at you! You have to be confident though, and just keep being honest with your answers. If you have a real opinion about something, share it.

The interviews were 7 minutes long I think last year? Close to that. I had extra time with all but one, so don't worry about that. It's better to answer truthfully and succinctly and sit in silence for 2 minutes, than to ramble about nothing just to fill time.
*One tip I will give is that there is always a clock in the room. When you enter the room make sure you note the time and pay attention to it! If you glance over and you have a lot of time yet, slow down on your next response and flesh it out. If you're running out of time, answer quickly.

To be honest there isn't much preparation that can be done in advance. If you were to feel like you NEEDED practice, then I would have a friend come up with a story that has some sort of moral ambiguity and print it out for you. Read it, and then have them ask you questions. "Which person do you agree with, and why?" "If this were changed in the story, would your opinion change as well?" "How do you think this relates to vet med?". The point is simply to get you to form an answer that makes sense and can be given within a reasonable amount of time. The extent to which this would help is minimal though, in all honesty.
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your post made me feel better. i feel like if i prepare and think about a million potential questions, i will just get more nervous. i am happy to hear that they ask you a series of questions though. for some reason, i was imagining it to be more like a public speech where you have 7 minutes to speak about one question with no follow up questions from the audience.
 
Falina said:
For the most part it's one-sided. You will have a short period of time (5-6 minutes maybe) to read a prompt, and then enter the room. There the interviewer will introduce him/herself, and begin. They may give you a hypothetical situation relating to the prompt, or ask you questions about the prompt itself. And you answer.

The large majority of it is "in your opinion" and "why do you think that". They are not allowed to give you feedback, so it can be intimidating because you'll answer and they'll just stare at you! You have to be confident though, and just keep being honest with your answers. If you have a real opinion about something, share it.

The interviews were 7 minutes long I think last year? Close to that. I had extra time with all but one, so don't worry about that. It's better to answer truthfully and succinctly and sit in silence for 2 minutes, than to ramble about nothing just to fill time.
*One tip I will give is that there is always a clock in the room. When you enter the room make sure you note the time and pay attention to it! If you glance over and you have a lot of time yet, slow down on your next response and flesh it out. If you're running out of time, answer quickly.

To be honest there isn't much preparation that can be done in advance. If you were to feel like you NEEDED practice, then I would have a friend come up with a story that has some sort of moral ambiguity and print it out for you. Read it, and then have them ask you questions. "Which person do you agree with, and why?" "If this were changed in the story, would your opinion change as well?" "How do you think this relates to vet med?". The point is simply to get you to form an answer that makes sense and can be given within a reasonable amount of time. The extent to which this would help is minimal though, in all honesty.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FALINA. This made me feel a whole lot better. Like jersheyshoregirl said, I also thought we had to speak for 7-8 minute about one topic. And I'm not sure that's even possible for me without being able to do research and actually spending hours preparing for. Though I'm still a little worried about filling up the time so that there isn't too much extra time. But I'll deal with it.
 
The one thing I don't like about the MMI is that there's no interacting with your interviewer. You say hi, shake hands, and get down to it. Once your'e done with our prompt there's no exchanging small talk or anything like that. You both just sort of stare at opposite corners of the room and wait awkwardly until the bell rings for you to move to your next station. 😕
 
gugoodoll said:
The one thing I don't like about the MMI is that there's no interacting with your interviewer. You say hi, shake hands, and get down to it. Once your'e done with our prompt there's no exchanging small talk or anything like that. You both just sort of stare at opposite corners of the room and wait awkwardly until the bell rings for you to move to your next station. 😕
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Really? No small talk at all? Is that not allowed?
 
cadisestrama said:
Really? No small talk at all? Is that not allowed?
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From what I was told, no. Obviously when you enter the room you want to smile and greet your interviewer (hi, how are you, shake hands, etc), but once you sit down you get down to business. It's really just a question-and-answer type of thing.
 
Yep, gugoodoll is totally right. There are some really awkward moments involved.
I remember answering one question, and the interviewer just stared at me. Hard. Like I had just said that I liked kicking puppies or something. Then we sat in silence for a whole minute.

They're told to do that though. It's MEANT to be intimidating, so you have to play the game and just ignore it. Be who you are and be confident in that, and you'll be ok 🙂
 
So.... this may be a silly question... but when they are staring at you, are you just sitting there maintaining eye contact and smiling? Or what are you doing.... that's so awkward!
 
onisteverina said:
So.... this may be a silly question... but when they are staring at you, are you just sitting there maintaining eye contact and smiling? Or what are you doing.... that's so awkward!
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Rofl. I'd like to know the answer to that question too. So I don't think it's a silly question. Unless we're both silly...
 
Lol he stared at me for maybe 10 seconds or something, and then looked down at his paper for the rest of the time, while I twiddled my thumbs. He didn't stare for the whole minute!
That 10 seconds felt like an eternity though.

During the silences I usually stared at my hands and went to my "happy place" to keep myself calm.
 
Falina said:
Lol he stared at me for maybe 10 seconds or something, and then looked down at his paper for the rest of the time, while I twiddled my thumbs. He didn't stare for the whole minute!
That 10 seconds felt like an eternity though.

During the silences I usually stared at my hands and went to my "happy place" to keep myself calm.
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Man... the idea of sitting there and trying to stay calm kind of freaks me out... not looking forward to this!
 
IS.
GPAs: Overall-3.74, Science- 3.83, Last 45-3.81
GRE: Quant-161, Verbal-160, Analytical-5
Vet hours (small animal) ~4200, Research hours (wildlife) ~ 200

I'M SO SCARED FOR MMI. :bigtears: I found myself staring at two necklaces in a store yesterday for 15 minutes trying to decide the pros and cons of each, and analyzing what each one "said" about me. This process is driving me to insanity.
 
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