I would recommend first writing your essay without worrying about the character limit so you can say what you need to say. Then work on editing to get down to the size you need, preferably with someone else giving some input too. If you’re so desperate for characters that you’re writing vet instead of veterinarian, you should probably get some editing advice.
How do you calculate it?? Is there an online calculator? Do they not just take your GPA from your transcript?
They don’t want you saying you have 300 hours for each when you have 300 hours total if you were to combine the time you did all those jobs. If you did 150 hours running assays/projects of the total 300 hours you’ve spent on things related to the lab, you’d put 150 hours for that section and then however many hours for each other section. They just don’t want you double dipping and inflating your hours by saying you had double the amount of total hours spent on things related to the lab. They want you to try your best and divide it into how much time you actually did each activity/section on your app.
The only place I've found this info was school admissions pages on their website. Many, if not most, schools don't publish this info.Is there anywhere we would be able to find how many applicants were offered a seat (not how many seats the school has)? I'm looking at where to apply and for OOS, some of these schools have a seat to applicant ratio that is absolutely tiny
I'm trying to find data on how many applicants get an offer overall, including those who were waitlisted and eventually pulled, but no luck so far.
Many schools will post this info to varying degrees of specificity. UF has a LOT of info dating several years back, including what you’re looking for. Other schools just post small summaries of the most recent year. If you search “[School Name] vet school application statistics” that’s likely where you’ll find the information you need.Is there anywhere we would be able to find how many applicants were offered a seat (not how many seats the school has)? I'm looking at where to apply and for OOS, some of these schools have a seat to applicant ratio that is absolutely tiny
I'm trying to find data on how many applicants get an offer overall, including those who were waitlisted and eventually pulled, but no luck so far.
I calculated mine online - I just googled GPA calculator. Some schools do just look at your VMCAS GPA, but some schools will calculate their own - such as either grade replacement vs avg retaken courses, or even calculating totally differently - such as in both of my cycles auburn does not consider b- or b+ as grades, rather they would calculate it as a b, etc.
No, this does not increase chances of admission. The admission committees across the schools are composed of dozens of individuals, likely divided across different aspects of the application. The person reading your essays is likely not the person going to interview you. And, ultimately, it's up to the dean to extend admissions offers based on recommendations from those that reviewed your application. This would be especially true for those schools with 10+ applications per seat
I agree with Battie. It at least gives you insight on that school’s admission process and how to improve your application but being familiar with admin officer doesn’t affect your application.
Don’t feel dumb for submitting early. There was no way for you to know about this. The vast majority of schools do not call experiences unless hours look fishy (like if you worked 120 hours a week for 10 years). Are you applying to UGA? Because unless they’ve changed in the past couple years, they’re the only school I’ve heard of who regularly contacts experiences but not even for every applicant. They do this instead of interviewing applicants. They essentially do a phone interview with some of your supervisors instead of interviewing you directly. May have only been LOR references and not just regular experiences but I feel like I remember reading that some people had experiences contacted. If you did apply to UGA, you could try contacting them and explain the situation and forward along better contact info for your old manager (and hopefully they would use it if needed), unless the current manager you think would also be fine for a UGA “interview” (if you make it to that stage) and be able to answer any questions about your time there and your personality/work ethic/etc.
Yeah it’s definitely not worth their time to call experiences for every applicant. Most adcoms are also lecturers or have some other job at the university so they don’t have loads of time to burn on calling everyone’s experiences to verify everything. If there’s something fishy sounding, they’ll call. But otherwise, they’re taking your word for it being accurate.
Go to the spot that’s something like “check status” and it should say whether your transcripts have been received. They should still be in there and everything should be good! iirc they may even say verified? I can’t remember
Thank you so much
Back in 2015, I picked the two highest grades that filled that requirement
If you’re adding the grades to vmcas, you need to send a new transcript.
Ohhhhh that makes sense then. Oh man okay glad im not the only one. I thought it was my laptop!
Do either one just make sure you stay consistent throughout. Most people have recommended to put your tasks/duties and anything you learned from that experience (like “learned client communication skills” etc)
I did. If schools don't care about it, they'll ignore it
You can do either. Personally, I chose the course(s) with the highest grade that met the requirement in case they utilized the choices for a prerequisite GPA.
I didn’t include pet ownership.
Be careful - “should’ve” implies that everyone who wants to be a veterinarian must have also been fortunate enough to own pets. Pet ownership is a luxury many cannot afford or their resources are limited/ other circumstances (apartment lifestyle, family with allergies, parents who aren’t supportive, etc.). Some don’t realize their love for vet med until college, and perhaps their college housing won’t allow pets either. Pet ownership should not be taken as a given and those who haven’t owned pets shouldn’t be penalized either.
you are Right, I am sorry, I meant more as most of future veterinarians usually have pets. I was a fortunate one, my parents allowed us to have pets.
I would include pet ownership - conservatively. Schools can always ignore experiences they don't want to include but they can't give you points for things if you don't include them at all.
Does it have to be verified before sept 15?
