Select the class with the highest grade. If you have all A’s or something, then pick the highest level classes although that probably wouldn’t actually matter since they’ll see it anyway on your transcript. But when calculating a pre-req GPA, just give them your best grades that fulfill the requirement.
You’re welcome! I know it can be tricky to figure out all of these things, especially since VMCAS doesn’t tell you exactly what to do. Then again, if it was easier to apply then maybe we’d have even MORE people than we do now applying. A lot of the class entry stuff is deceivingly simple, which makes people second guess themselves. But there are also things on VMCAS that are deceivingly difficult, and people don’t second guess themselves and end up messing up. When in doubt, just ask!
Out of curiosity, why do you want to submit earlier than August 4th?
I was worried that my verification process will take a long time and if I didn't input my transcript or something. I am an international student so if I don't get in this cycle it will be a pain for me to get my visa and stuff for interviews the next cycle.
Gotcha. In that case I would recommend just waiting until you take your test in the 4th, then going home, inputting your scores since you get them immediately, and submitting. It won’t take over a month for your application to be verified. You have until September 17th to submit and it’s much safer to have everything in anyway and then submit than to worry about everything not being in. You won’t gain anything by submitting today vs August 4th, and you’ll still have 6 weeks for them to verify your application, which is still overkill.
Likely is the same as in the past, so you should be able to add experiences after you submit but you cannot delete any. Don’t add it before you start.
I think you should keep those things in the back of your mind to look into/pursue further once you get into vet school, because honestly it reads kind of all over the place. Usually radiologists are focused on getting and reviewing images (rads, ultrasounds, CT, MRI) from whoever is sending them in to them or the patients of other doctors, not specifically "working with therapy and service animals." Also, specializing to me (and I think most vets) is the thing you do after vet school with additional training and board certification, so an internship/residency type deal rather than just focusing on companion animal species (which includes your cats, dogs, and horses). You may not want to work with farm animals ever in your grown up job, but you will have to learn about them in order to become a vet and pass the NAVLE, so there's no getting away from that. Every AVMA accredited vet school will teach you what you need to know about your companion species though.
I personally put mine all under Achievements, iirc.
Do what each school says for you to do. Some will tell you to submit it through VMCAS and others will tell you to submit it directly to them. When you look up the recipient institutions on ETS, search VMCAS and each school that requires you to send it through VMCAS will have their own specific link to add as a recipient. Usually schools will also say which institution code to use, as they have many different schools under the university that you could send GRE scores to depending on which program you’re applying to. So make sure you select the right one as mentioned in each school’s requirements section/application checklist. That’s the only way to know for sure if you’re sending the scores to the right place.
Because applying to schools is as much a business as schools themselves and they want to be paid for looking at your application. It’s unfortunately not fair, but that’s just how it is. Applying to schools, including getting to interviews and finding places to stay for those interviews, can cost into the thousands. It’s an expensive endeavor that does create a high barrier to entry, but given that the applicant pool is only increasing every year it doesn’t seem like this is something that will ever change.
You enter your scores manually into VMCAS, and also submit through ETS to the school codes listed here. Official GRE Scores
I'm not sure being on the board of school clubs is really community service... more like an extracurricular. And I would probably list the experiences separately.
My thinking about the executive board positions being community service is that being a club member is something I do for myself but being a board member is service to the club. It is a lot of work and the clubs can’t function without the board doing its job.
If I remember correctly, the minimum grade part means that the grade you got needs to be at least a 2.0 on a 4.0 scale. Look around on that page to see if anything mentions that, because I’m pretty sure that’s what they mean. And I think they mean that a 2.0 is a C, since a C- is usually below a 2.0. My undergrad only had regular and plus grades, no minuses, so I never ran into this issue.
You can have the date range be a really long time (like 10 years) but only have the weeks be like 100 weeks if you did this activity 10 weeks each year and then estimate how many hours you did it each of those weeks. You don’t have to have the date range and number of weeks be the exact same if you weren’t doing the activity every week.
Try putting two spaces between each section and download as a PDF and see if that fixes it.
In that case I would just send a quick email to the school checking what you should do. Unless you’re talking about a VMCAS supplemental app in which case email VMCAS asking about formatting.
