Very worried

[mlongo1]

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I want to lay out my current situation and any advice or comments would be appreciated. I am a student at Loyola University Chicago currently applying for the 2007 entering class at ICO. I have about a 3.9 GPA total and a 4.0 Science GPA. Looks good right? Here are the clinchers:

I will not have completed a BS, but will have the exact minimum of 90hrs (unless i take courses over the summer). Furthermore, I plan to submit my application soon - with only my OAT scores missing. I head ICO will grant interviews regardless. The problem is that I won't be taking the OAT until mid-January....so perhaps alot of seats will be taken by then. Reason why I am taking it so late is to have physics 1 and orgo 1 under my belt....which leads to another problem: I won't have physics 2 or orgo 2 completed at the time of the exam. To make matters worse - I'll only have a month to study what I know over xmas break (my class schedule is too crazy). So yea...I'm almost ready to throw in the towel and just not bother this year.....but yet I don't want to do another year of college (which won't earn me a degree anyway cuz my schedule was so messed up frosh year). ugh...advice.

 

[hutch]

Definately don't throw in the towel. Most applicants would kill to have a GPA like yours. I wouldn't worry about it. People do get interview without doing the OAT and with marks like yours...I'm sure they won't pass you up!! They'd be crazy if the did. And don't worry about not having all the courses done for the OAT...here where i go to school we have two semesters of organic chem, but biologists have their own organic chem course and only 1 semester...that's all I had, so I just tried to look at the other organic text to learn what I could and I did alright. I'm sure you'll be fine. Go for it!!!!🙂

 

[jefguth]

I think you'll have no problem at all. The committee may however delay offering admission until your have completed the OAT or may extend a conditional offer contingent on a minimum OAT score. Nevertheless, you'll be a very attractive candidate - not many people, including the entire applicant pool, will have a 3.9!

Good Luck

 

[prettygreeneyes]

OK... at first I though this post was a joke. You have a 3.9 GPA and you're worried about getting into optometry school??? But, I see that you are serious so I will put my sarcasm aside and say that you have nothing to worry about. Only having a month to study for the OAT isn't bad, because a lot of people (myself included) didn't study half that much and made it into optometry school. (Yes... my scores were average... but I'm in, right?) Not having the second half of Physics and Ochem may put you at a slight disadvantage, but use that month to take practice tests, and then focus on the weak areas that you may not have covered yet.

Any school would jump at the chance to have you... assuming you are able to speak in complete sentences and be somewhat personable. Don't worry about limiting the schools you apply to based on who will grant you interviews without OAT scores. Even with a late OAT score, you should be fine. The only schools you can't apply to are obviously those that require a degree, but I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that's only Berkeley at this point.

Call the schools you are interested in and let them know what's going on. Get your name in their heads, and at the same time get some advice on the best ways to proceed.

Best of luck... not that you really need it!

PGE

 

[optodood]

I would really recommend trying to get hold of a Kaplan Review notes book to help you study. When i took the OAT it had been over a year since i took Ochem over two years since I took GChem and I had only taken one of my physics classes and i ended up getting a 360 AA and a 380 TS not to mention a 380 in physics. I owe it all to my Review Notes from kaplan.

The only hard part is getting a hold of one. They only give them to people who sign up for their class.

 

[poc]

I would really recommend trying to get hold of a Kaplan Review notes book to help you study. When i took the OAT it had been over a year since i took Ochem over two years since I took GChem and I had only taken one of my physics classes and i ended up getting a 360 AA and a 380 TS not to mention a 380 in physics. I owe it all to my Review Notes from kaplan.

The only hard part is getting a hold of one. They only give them to people who sign up for their class.

which Kaplan Review book are you speaking of? the DAT one?