Hi, I’m not applying this cycle but I met with the dean of admissions in August via Zoom and he said they are still deciding between a virtual MMI or the SJT (situational judgement test). UC Davis School of Medicine did the SJT for their secondary MD applications - my mom actually just took hers - and it’s basically a personality “test,” that was also made by the creators of the MMI! If you go to the website they have a practice test and information. Hope this helps, good luck!
Thank you soooo much for this info! That makes me feel a little less uncertain about all the potential possibilities. The admissions site says they will announce a decision in September so hopefully that will come soon.
I’m a recent undergrad from here and they’ve always told us we will find out in November
My friend who is a first year at UCD said that she received her interview invite around mid-November and interviews were in December. That was last year, so I'm expecting it to be a longer wait for Davis based on how a lot of the other schools that I applied to have been behind in sending out interviews, etc.
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I am assuming that this will be the test SVM is using. I am not at all a fan of this format - seems very arbitrary. Additionally, they literally say on the website that they are advising the pilot schools not to weigh the test too heavily in admissions and UCD is going to use this test as the sole metric for determining whether applicants are accepted once they’re invited to interview. This is going to really mess things up for many otherwise strong applicants.
Not confirmed, but going based off what people said on this thread and the fact that the med school used it this cycle. Although, in the end the med school didn’t even end up using the scores in their final admissions considerations, whereas if this is true and they keep things the same as past year this will be an all or nothing for whether applicants are accepted. This is a pilot test and not even designed for vet students; it scares me that it could be the sole indicator of our moving forward so I hope this isn’t true.
I took the CASPER test and I was unaware that it will be a replacement as interviews for Kansas! Thank you for letting me know! 🙂 I think I find it weird because some sample questions are case by case. I feel like the motto of applying to schools are "rolling with the punches" lol.
I dont think it’s replacing interviews. From emails I’ve received they’ve said it’s low stakes but that they are still doing interviews virtually over Zoom.
See I mean yes, for sure, some of the responses are obviously completely wrong haha. But there are a LOT of other ones that would require more context than the question gives to really assess them. That’s where the free response aspect of the CASPer gives a lot more flexibility. And plus, the admissions committee isn’t actually reviewing your answers on this test, you’re just getting graded on an overall score of 1-9 for the whole test. So they can’t see which ones you chose or any reasoning behind them for “red flags” per se.
I had to take the Casper test for one of the other schools that I applied to, and I personally don't think it's a very good way to analyze someone's judgement. You have to watch a short video of a scenario, and then have 5 minutes to answer three very detail oriented questions. This test is instead testing your ability to type out three good paragraphs in under 5 minutes, isn't that essentially what the essay portion of the GRE was? Whereas, the MMI gives you a straight forward scenario and you have like 7 minutes to answer their questions which I found to be more than enough time during my mock MMI's.
The CASPER test is only good for one cycle.
Well that sucks lol I wish I had known Davis was going to use it when I initially took it.
honestly SAME. I did okay but I wish I did better.
This is the email we got, you may want to check you spam folder or contact them if you didn't receive this email for some reason.Aw man, I haven't received any email from Davis like the one y'all are talking about. I just know that we should hear something by mid-November, based on the timeline on their website.
Haha yea! In a way it's nice though, you know up front if you made it to the interview (now CASPER testing) stage or not.
Thanks so much for including the email! I was able to find it buried in my inbox thanks to your picture!
On Monday I'll be at work with my 3 bosses who are all UCD DVM alums.... maybe that will grant me some cosmic luck???? I'm going to be such a nervous WRECK oh my god. I'm already so NERVOUSAHHH 😵
