I think it's auto! I got the same email!
I wish that had been a question my year!
I also grappled with this one pretty heavily because of the 5k character limit. I came up with a motto easily enough via searching quotes that matched some of my key attributes and values/brainstorming figures that inspired me and looking through some of their most famous sayings to see what resonated but really struggled to get even close to that character count without a ton of fluff, especially while avoiding touching on some of the same points from their resiliency essay.
I was thinking this too.. I have one that I LIVE by, but im wondering if it is too cliche/ something everyone says... Although if I spin it to my own story im wondering if that would be better?
Honestly I feel like they probably don’t care too much as to what it is but they are looking for how you explain it and your writing ability. It’s also just another way to learn more about you so if you have a motto that is important to you you should definitely use that instead of making something up to sound better.
And here I am wishing I could have a different question 🤣 thanks for the example though!!
Yeah the character limit is scaring me too and I'm also struggling to not repeat things I've already mentioned in the resiliency essay. I definitely won't be able to hit the limit lol
That's super helpful, thanks! I agree it's probably better to use a motto I've actually used, so I think I'm gonna try to go that route.
This was a similar case for me as well. I got ~3500 characters and felt that it was sufficient. I did a bit of important event storytelling in a creative way too, as I feel that if it was me on the board reading thousands of essays, I would want to read something interesting and creative rather than a flat typical essay!
The one that I used was also sort of "cliche" I suppose but I backed it up a fair amount with experiences etc. and related it back to the field. Do something that you can thoroughly support and believe in
I saw this too and also just did what was on VMCAS. I figure they’ll probably contact us requesting if it turns out that they do need it, none of the other schools I applied to have residency forms for OOS and it wasn’t really clearly listed so I feel like a large chunk of OOS applicants likely didn’t do it.
I applied OOS last year and we didn’t have to upload a form
They don’t do portals. Last year interview/denials were sent mid December
Last year I heard from them on Dec 9th and I'm OOS. I heard from another person they were contacted by VMCVM on Dec 12th. So if I had to guess it'll probably be early to mid-December - especially since every year they get more and more applications. Hopefully I am wrong and they get back to us soon but idk
I heard that the last 3 years were all the same day so I’m assuming it will be whatever Friday around 12/9 is. Last year it was like 4pm I believe
I think it was mid December during my ‘21 cycle as well, but this is what’s on their website for this year
I feel like schools will rarely send out interviews at the beginning of the range they give us. Try not to worry too much, they will come in due time
Hoping for Dec 8th! But who knows
Heard directly from Shelby's mouth today, "within the first two weeks of December."
Exciting but nerve wracking
