It has not. I would expect it to go up sometime in November, as VMCAS is still in the process of verifying people. I emailed them and they said they won't put it up until they've gone through all the verified applications.
On their website, they have a page (https://vetmed.illinois.edu/admissions/) where they have a portal so you're able to check your application status. However, the link for this cycle hasn't gone up yet.
I emailed admissions and they sassed me! Haha Not really, but they explained they have a lot of applications so they won't have any status updates until all have been gone through. I think this was about two weeks ago! Hoping the portal goes up soon!
Oh absolutely, it kind of made me feel bad for even sending an email... But I understand, they must have 100 people emailing them the same thing.
What school has seen 2000 applicants this year instead of the usual 800-1000?
omg that was so annoying. As soon as the courses actually opened, 100 laptops were whipped out. I actually spilled my coffee everywhere in my haste, but I got my electives! I now just have sticky keys that wreak of old coffee....
I'll be interested in those numbers then. I'd truly be shocked if there was a sudden jump of 1000+ applicants for one school this year.
I think with everything else going on, they just oversighted some of the registration stuff. We didn't have that problem at all last year. Once this budget nonsense is settled, they'll be on top of stuff like that again.
Yeah the entire state is in trouble right now. I have a feeling it'll end up being passed at the last possible minute, but right now no schools of higher education are getting state funding. You do the math. Two of our lecture halls are chained closed (construction started, then stopped once the money ran out), part of our clinical skills learning center is torn apart, and we can't replace the staff that retired this year. We're having lectures in our anatomy lab, for Pete's sake! I'm hoping the school has plans because they really did schedule a ton of electives for the closed lecture halls. It would be a problem if they had to cancel a ton of electives...
One thing our staff is is resourceful. If they can find a quasi-classroom to use, they will. They don't want to cancel any electives either, especially since a lot of them aren't offered another year such as comparative anatomy. Hopefully they get all this settled soon because I would like to have our clinical skills building back. It's really helpful to go in there during time off and practice skills you can't practice at home. No idea where they're going to do our OSCE stuff either. Fun times. Ivisessea, yea there's a lot going on. However, they've never been good about their portal system. It's better to just wait for the letters and not depend on the portal. They're way more on time with physical mail than the interwebs.
I'm so sorry batsenecal 🙁
I wish I had inside info for you guys 🙁 Hang in there!
I feel like you're our insider spy
Thanks for the information you've been able to give us thus far!
The first cuts should be receiving word in the next two weeks according to the schedule of the last two years. Honestly the portal ended up being pointless for both years I applied since they were updated after I had already gotten my letters! Hang in there guys, it'll start happening soon!
Lol. I wondered, there was no indication on the page that it was going to be anything other than the place to pay our supplemental fee. I didn't want to question it though since it sounds like they were planning on having the portal a couple months ago. Last year I liked that it showed they had all your stuff and how they'd calculated your science GPA, but that's not absolutely crucial. Pinkpuppy's right, it was generally way behind as far as updating people about their status. Although I think I did find out from the portal that I was waitlisted last year. IIRC they intended to wait to update the portals until after most people had their letters, but there was a huge delay with some people receiving their letters for some reason.
Yes, yes they will. I didn't make it to phase to during my first try. I think I got a paper letter (the portal was also updated eventually but that doesn't apply).
So if I don't receive an email today I should just assume I didn't make it to phase 2?
Great!
I wonder how many "make the cut" so to speak. Last year they talked about people making it past a cutoff for the phase 2 stuff. If 950 people apply and 250 are granted an interview, that's 700 to comb through.
yeah but not all get phase 2, i didnt last year. so im assuming they cut at least 150-200 before phase 2 eval? but who knows? I hope whoever didnt get an email does soon tho!
