I got my letter of rejection from Michigan State yesterday. My SIS score was too low apparently. They will also be sending an email in the near future with further review information regarding my rejection- hopefully it will be more helpful than the self-evaluation email from CSU.
Still waiting on Minnesota (which I am sure will be a rejection), Washington and Oregon. And of course the results of the interview at ISU *fingers crossed*
I've got some sort of 'bug' so I won't be getting in any hours with the vet clinic this week and I will be in Disney World by the weekend. Bummer I won't get in any clinic hours over break- AGAIN... But that's life I guess.
Christmas was uneventful- spent all day at the doggy daycare working. Hope everyone is having a happy holiday season :)
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Christmas Time!
I haven't been in the Christmas spirit this year, I usually start my shopping in October and listen to a ton of Christmas music by November but not at all the case this year.. I also neglected to put up my tree and my boxes of decorations.
I did however hang the Christmas microbe ornaments my friend got me as a gift this year :)
I did however hang the Christmas microbe ornaments my friend got me as a gift this year :)
It probably doesn't help that it isn't going to be a "white Christmas" this year. For the first time in the 15yrs I've lived in ND it will be snow-free! Presumably it will be 46 degrees on Xmas too! I couldn't be happier (I'm really not a winter person!), but I think the snow helps to get me into the Xmas spirit lol
I did finally make my traditional batch of Velveeta Fudge it sounds a little weird, but if you've never tried it I highly recommend it. If you didn't know it had 3/4 pounds of velveeta in it you would never guess there was cheese involved. It's also super quick and easy and can be made with a bowl and a microwave! It makes a great gift and you really can't screw it up. I love candy-making and really should make normal stove-top from scratch fudge but that's my mom's department lol
No word from my other 4 schools yet. Thinking Washington and Michigan will be any day now! Also, I got B's in my Physics Lec & Lab-- I'll take that! :)
Saturday, December 17, 2011
2nd Rejection
Got the official Status change & email from Colorado State U. regretfully informing me they won't be accepting me to their CVM for Fall of 2012. Bummer.
As a not-stellar, Out-of-State, 1/1500, Non-Sponsored applicant I did not expect to get an offer from them, but since it was my top pick of my 7 applications it still sucks. I hoped that my experience, accomplishments, etc would make up for my grades at CSU since they don't base things so heavily on grades, but I guess I just wasn't unique enough to compete there, a girl can dream...
Still waiting to hear from Oregon, Washington, Michigan, and Minnesota-- and of course the final decision from Iowa in mid-February. Sounds like I will hear from Washington and Michigan potentially any day now since other out-of-staters have started to get their notifications. *fingers crossed* It just takes one... It just takes one...
What a crummy Christmas present- still hoping Santa stuffs my stocking with an acceptance letter this year haha! I'd be happy with an Alternate offer too :)
I am officially on the 2nd day of X-mas break, hoping to get some artwork done for my Senior Art Show & the Spring Gallery Opener, working quite a bit, and going to Disney World for about a week with the family-- should keep me quite busy!
Keep ya'll posted on how things are going.
As a not-stellar, Out-of-State, 1/1500, Non-Sponsored applicant I did not expect to get an offer from them, but since it was my top pick of my 7 applications it still sucks. I hoped that my experience, accomplishments, etc would make up for my grades at CSU since they don't base things so heavily on grades, but I guess I just wasn't unique enough to compete there, a girl can dream...
Still waiting to hear from Oregon, Washington, Michigan, and Minnesota-- and of course the final decision from Iowa in mid-February. Sounds like I will hear from Washington and Michigan potentially any day now since other out-of-staters have started to get their notifications. *fingers crossed* It just takes one... It just takes one...
What a crummy Christmas present- still hoping Santa stuffs my stocking with an acceptance letter this year haha! I'd be happy with an Alternate offer too :)
I am officially on the 2nd day of X-mas break, hoping to get some artwork done for my Senior Art Show & the Spring Gallery Opener, working quite a bit, and going to Disney World for about a week with the family-- should keep me quite busy!
Keep ya'll posted on how things are going.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
First Rejection
I got my first official letter of rejection today. *sad face*
CVM at Illinois sent me a letter to say that my Science GPA was lower than what they required so I technically didn't even make it to the review- I was disqualified. I wouldn't have otherwise heard from them until mid-late January had I been evaluated.
It is looking like every school calculates Science GPA a little differently- some average retaken class grades, some don't, some include math courses, some don't, etc... They calculated my S-GPA much lower than a few others I have seen.
This was my last choice of the 7 I applied to, I got the letter and was confused because I thought "...I didn't apply to Illinois...? Did I?" That tells you how much I wanted to go there lol
I'm just glad it wasn't the first school I heard from; it's better to start on a good note!
5 schools left to hear from! Next should be by the end of the month! *holding my breath*
CVM at Illinois sent me a letter to say that my Science GPA was lower than what they required so I technically didn't even make it to the review- I was disqualified. I wouldn't have otherwise heard from them until mid-late January had I been evaluated.
It is looking like every school calculates Science GPA a little differently- some average retaken class grades, some don't, some include math courses, some don't, etc... They calculated my S-GPA much lower than a few others I have seen.
This was my last choice of the 7 I applied to, I got the letter and was confused because I thought "...I didn't apply to Illinois...? Did I?" That tells you how much I wanted to go there lol
I'm just glad it wasn't the first school I heard from; it's better to start on a good note!
5 schools left to hear from! Next should be by the end of the month! *holding my breath*
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
First Interview Recap!
I had my interview with ISU on the 4th at 11:15am. I flew out to Des Moines on Friday with my mom, we spent some time shopping around and relaxing Saturday before heading to Ames that evening.
We had to be at ISU by 7:15am to get registered. It is not fun getting up at 6am to get dressed up!
I got there and the first year vet student there that I know from my graduating class at high school was actually working the interviews and was the one to lead me to the waiting area! It was nice to see a familiar face! At 7:30 there was a presentation (usually done by the Dean who was out of town) about the history and facilities of the college. Then since my interview wasn't until later I was to go on the 8am student-led tour.
I went with a nice young gentleman from Buffalo, NY & his mom on the tour. The facilities were much larger than I had expected! The LA hospital was newly remodeled and the SA hospital was newly expanded and was presently under remodeling which will be done by Fall '12. The clinic was new remodeled, there was a great variety of artwork which was really nice and they had a a little something for everybody.
I attended the Student Panel at 9am which was Q&A time with 4 of the students, a 1st yr, 2 2nd yrs, and a 3rd yr. This wasn't super helpful but it was not to hear some candid remarks on things from their point of view and they did their best to answer questions.
I had a little down time in the waiting area from 10-11am. My mom went to the Financial Aid lecture at 11am and the interviewers got me a few minutes after 11 (about 15 mins early). The Student Doctor Network website had past interview questions available so I was able to prepare answers to those and felt prepared going in.
The interview was closed-file and there were 3 people who took turns asking questions. First I told them a little about myself and then the actual interview began. Nearly every question they asked was on SDN, a couple were specific follow-ups to things I had said in my answers and so I think only 1 or 2 were new to me but they were easy questions. They were all behaviorally-based questions. I think it went as well as it could have, one can't really judge what they will think of my responses but I was relaxed, spoke clearly, presented myself well, was personable, made them all laugh loudly several times-- what more can you really ask for? How they view the responses is entirely in their hands...
The interview lasted about 40minutes (a little quicker than what it usually is, but I was prepared to answer the questions too). I spent a few minutes at the Organization Fair area and then we left.
I was most impressed by the fact that organizations and studying abroad lets you have the opportunity to get as much extra surgical/hands-on practice & diversity of experiences as you want. The fact that you can get more if you want more was a HUGE bonus to me. I heard a lot of the present students say they 1 major reason they chose ISU over their IS schools or over others is that there were so many opportunities for surgical experience. The other major reason was how friendly and welcoming the midwest school was. Now, I'm from the midwest and am used to that level of friendliness, but according to these people, a lot of the other schools have a "consider yourself lucky to even be here" snooty attitude, whereas ISU is more "welcome! Now WHEN you start here..." gracious attitude.
Overall very impressed by ISU and it is still one of my top picks! I will find out Feb 15th whether I'm in or not. They had 1200+ applicants this year (YIKES!) of which 900 some are already out of the running. So I am 1 of 300+ students getting interviewed. The odds are still not in my favor but better than they used to be! *fingers crossed*
Side note--> Should be hearing from my next vet school by the end of the month! : ) Hoping for more good news! And I also got my letter of acceptance from UND for my CLS back-up program- no word yet on where my clinical site will be if I end up doing that.
We had to be at ISU by 7:15am to get registered. It is not fun getting up at 6am to get dressed up!
I got there and the first year vet student there that I know from my graduating class at high school was actually working the interviews and was the one to lead me to the waiting area! It was nice to see a familiar face! At 7:30 there was a presentation (usually done by the Dean who was out of town) about the history and facilities of the college. Then since my interview wasn't until later I was to go on the 8am student-led tour.
I went with a nice young gentleman from Buffalo, NY & his mom on the tour. The facilities were much larger than I had expected! The LA hospital was newly remodeled and the SA hospital was newly expanded and was presently under remodeling which will be done by Fall '12. The clinic was new remodeled, there was a great variety of artwork which was really nice and they had a a little something for everybody.
I attended the Student Panel at 9am which was Q&A time with 4 of the students, a 1st yr, 2 2nd yrs, and a 3rd yr. This wasn't super helpful but it was not to hear some candid remarks on things from their point of view and they did their best to answer questions.
I had a little down time in the waiting area from 10-11am. My mom went to the Financial Aid lecture at 11am and the interviewers got me a few minutes after 11 (about 15 mins early). The Student Doctor Network website had past interview questions available so I was able to prepare answers to those and felt prepared going in.
The interview was closed-file and there were 3 people who took turns asking questions. First I told them a little about myself and then the actual interview began. Nearly every question they asked was on SDN, a couple were specific follow-ups to things I had said in my answers and so I think only 1 or 2 were new to me but they were easy questions. They were all behaviorally-based questions. I think it went as well as it could have, one can't really judge what they will think of my responses but I was relaxed, spoke clearly, presented myself well, was personable, made them all laugh loudly several times-- what more can you really ask for? How they view the responses is entirely in their hands...
The interview lasted about 40minutes (a little quicker than what it usually is, but I was prepared to answer the questions too). I spent a few minutes at the Organization Fair area and then we left.
I was most impressed by the fact that organizations and studying abroad lets you have the opportunity to get as much extra surgical/hands-on practice & diversity of experiences as you want. The fact that you can get more if you want more was a HUGE bonus to me. I heard a lot of the present students say they 1 major reason they chose ISU over their IS schools or over others is that there were so many opportunities for surgical experience. The other major reason was how friendly and welcoming the midwest school was. Now, I'm from the midwest and am used to that level of friendliness, but according to these people, a lot of the other schools have a "consider yourself lucky to even be here" snooty attitude, whereas ISU is more "welcome! Now WHEN you start here..." gracious attitude.
Overall very impressed by ISU and it is still one of my top picks! I will find out Feb 15th whether I'm in or not. They had 1200+ applicants this year (YIKES!) of which 900 some are already out of the running. So I am 1 of 300+ students getting interviewed. The odds are still not in my favor but better than they used to be! *fingers crossed*
Side note--> Should be hearing from my next vet school by the end of the month! : ) Hoping for more good news! And I also got my letter of acceptance from UND for my CLS back-up program- no word yet on where my clinical site will be if I end up doing that.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
BUSY!!!!
Hello my few followers!
I've been meaning to post but I haven't really done anything worthy of posting! Don't get me wrong, I've been super super... busy- but that's the problem. I haven't had any time to hang out at the vet clinic or to do anything else interesting for that matter. I haven't even had time to start in on my online Animal Nutrition course I signed up for in October-- BAD!!!
I did go to the RenFest in MN at the end of September with a friend. And I've taken over as the leader of the belly dance troupe! We did our first performance at the Homecoming Street Fair on campus the middle of October and I did my first improvised solo! (for a surprisingly large crowd)- this was only my 2nd solo ever. It was a little nerve-wracking...
I had a hellish-nightmare of a time getting ETS PPI evaluations filled out for my app to CSU. So.... many technical difficulties! If you ever need to fill one of these out- send requests to your evaluators as SOON AS POSSIBLE and be prepared to contact the customer service line. We managed to get them in less than a day before their deadline (yikes!).
All other vet apps were submitted by Oct 3rd and my back-up Clinical Laboratory Science apps were sent in by Nov 1st. I got my first vet reply on Nov 10th from Iowa State!!! They offered me an interview--- I have my interview on December 4th (Sunday)!!!!! Exciting!!!! According to the sites I should start hearing from my other schools mid-late December. *fingers crossed* the waiting is the WORST!
Here is a map I made up of all the places I applied for Vet & CLS
I am tentatively on the intent to graduate list for this spring- depending on whether I get into a vet school or not. I picked up my cap & gown this week- also scary!
I will be sure to update on how the interview went and as I get further replies from vet schools. Thanks for keeping tabs on me! I will try to be more attentive to my blog in the future!
I've been meaning to post but I haven't really done anything worthy of posting! Don't get me wrong, I've been super super... busy- but that's the problem. I haven't had any time to hang out at the vet clinic or to do anything else interesting for that matter. I haven't even had time to start in on my online Animal Nutrition course I signed up for in October-- BAD!!!
I did go to the RenFest in MN at the end of September with a friend. And I've taken over as the leader of the belly dance troupe! We did our first performance at the Homecoming Street Fair on campus the middle of October and I did my first improvised solo! (for a surprisingly large crowd)- this was only my 2nd solo ever. It was a little nerve-wracking...
I had a hellish-nightmare of a time getting ETS PPI evaluations filled out for my app to CSU. So.... many technical difficulties! If you ever need to fill one of these out- send requests to your evaluators as SOON AS POSSIBLE and be prepared to contact the customer service line. We managed to get them in less than a day before their deadline (yikes!).
All other vet apps were submitted by Oct 3rd and my back-up Clinical Laboratory Science apps were sent in by Nov 1st. I got my first vet reply on Nov 10th from Iowa State!!! They offered me an interview--- I have my interview on December 4th (Sunday)!!!!! Exciting!!!! According to the sites I should start hearing from my other schools mid-late December. *fingers crossed* the waiting is the WORST!
Here is a map I made up of all the places I applied for Vet & CLS
I am tentatively on the intent to graduate list for this spring- depending on whether I get into a vet school or not. I picked up my cap & gown this week- also scary!
I will be sure to update on how the interview went and as I get further replies from vet schools. Thanks for keeping tabs on me! I will try to be more attentive to my blog in the future!
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