In one of my essays I talked about pokemon GO! I was waitlisted at that school lol. These essays seem really intimidating but they are open ended. As long as you answer the prompt and your writing is coherent I wouldn't worry too much. Do have your essays proof read though!
For what it's worth, I talked almost exclusively about my residence life experience during my interview. My vet med experience had been very generic up to that point, so I didn't have any unique vet med stuff to use.
IMO I would only list the conferences that you presented at as research. I think it would be good to say you attended other conferences but honestly idk how to report them. Maybe under extra-curricular?
I listed conferences I attended but didn't present at as extra-curriculars and it worked out.
You answered your own question 🙂 The instructions say to enter exactly as it's written on the transcript; so that's what you do.
Thanks, just wanted to double check 🙂
If you don't input it exactly how it's written on your transcript, you should still be fine. Don't worry too much. I personally wrote out the full names of classes and was still approved.
You can't think of anything from your veterinary or animal experiences? It doesn't have to be some epic flat-on-your-face failure. I think I wrote about a time a client asked for her dog to have a nail trim with his vaccines and I completely forgot. She called the hospital later that day and I happened to overhear one of the receptionists on the phone with her. Super insignificant but client satisfaction is important, so I got on the phone myself, apologized, and scheduled her a time to come in when I was working. I personally did the nail trim at no charge. Like I said, totally not a huge deal but I was able to show that I took accountability and made it right.
after working 10.5 hours today, I guess my brain just threw working at a vet clinic RIGHT out the window. Thank you! There are definitely things I've failed at work!
Ah, I didn't realize this. Thank you! 🙂
1) as far back as you can remember, if the experience adds something to your application. If you graduated high school within the last 5 years I’d include all relevant (i.e. academic honours, any vet, animal, and research experience) or major (anything unique, impressive, or with significant hours) experiences. There probably aren’t academic awards or non-vet-non-animal experiences further back than high school that add anything to your application, but if there is something particularly unique or impressive or that adds vet or animal experience, especially if it fills in an area you have little experience - add it! For example, from middle school I included catsitting, raising chickens for a science fair project on behaviour, and vet camp. To reduce clutter, you can try to fold experiences together more the further back you go (e.g. if you did a lot of different volunteering and extracurriculars in scouts/guides you could summarize those in the description of one experience rather than breaking them into multiple experiences. Or if you were on multiple soccer teams in elementary through high school you could have one “soccer” experience). If you have any feeling that an experience might add something, include it. Schools can simply ignore it if they don’t care and the advice I’ve gotten always said they won’t penalize you for including “too much” or “irrelevant” things (within reason, presumably).
hey! so i put my wildlife rehab license and wildlife society & rehab council and other professional, similar memberships down as extracurricular activities. for the organizations i put participant, member or student member depending, and then since my wildlife rehab license was through the state listed it as a volunteer with the state department i am licensed through if that makes sense. it worked out for me!
Thank you so much!
Nope!
I’m a military spouse and for admissions purposes I was considered a non-resident (except the state where I lived & worked). Once I had accepted my seat I contacted the VA office of my school and they walked me through the process of getting in-state tuition. The process may vary school-to-school so I won’t get into the details here, but you’re in the non-resident pool for admissions purposes.
Eeeeeh depends on how much you think it will raise your GPA and how much wiggle room you have between when you anticipate finishing and the deadline. Remember that you need to allow lots of time for your course to be graded, transcript finalized (I think UNE grades/finalizes as individual people finish the course instead of all after the end date, but check with UNE and your instructor), and the transcripts to be received at VMCAS by September 15 (they say postmarked for Sept 15 but then they also say “received by” Sept 15, so I’d go with the latter to be safe. You might want to ask then for clarification, though). Mail delays would be the worst reason for your application to be thrown out.
I waited until the last minute to have my transcripts verified and luckily they were, otherwise my application would have been for nothing. It gave me horrible anxiety. Obviously everyone is different in terms of anxiety but IMO don't wait longer than a month before the deadline just in case you have to redo it.
Vmcas will calculate most of those (besides prereq) during verification but if a school has a cut off and you are worried about meeting it, you need to calculate it yourself and make sure you meet it.
You don’t need to fill it out! That’s only if you need to explain anything to adcoms like a semester/year of low grades and how you will ensure that doesn’t happen again or a gap in your studies (like if you took a year off in undergrad). If you have nothing you need to explain, you don’t need to fill anything out.
The explanation statement is completely optional! Its purpose is essentially if you've experienced any kind of hardships during your academic career, had a semester that you didn't do so well, etc., so that you can explain how that has impacted you
No harm in including them! When I applied last year, I lumped together all of the webinars I'd done under one entry under "extracurriculars" and marked it as "volunteer". In the description, I listed off some of the general themes (aquatics, pathology, etc.). I think it's good to show that you're interested in learning outside of the classroom!
August 15th was usually my goal for getting everything submitted, but whether that was an actual suggestion somewhere or one of the "deadlines" I made for myself, who knows
I think I just listed myself as supervisor for that! And I think I put "Online Webinars" as both the experience title and the organization, then in the description I named some of the organizations. I don't think there's a "wrong" way to enter it since it's not really a structured activity, so I doubt anyone would care if you formatted it differently or anything.
