AMCAS 2024
Jaci Gustafson
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06/18/2024
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This workshop covers all the aspects of your AMCAS application.
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- [00:00:05.940]Jaci Gustafson: Okay. So I think I'm gonna try to get started on time. I wanna be respectful of your time. You can grab one of those sheets there.
- [00:00:13.810]Jaci Gustafson: because I
- [00:00:15.660]Jaci Gustafson: rather it take less than 2 h, if possible, to get through everything. So you guys can have some time, and I can have some time. But we're here until all your questions are answered.
- [00:00:28.005]Jaci Gustafson: I am recording this workshop. There's no video or anything of you guys, but just of the screens and of my voice. But we'll be posting this. So if you do have any friends that you want to
- [00:00:41.750]Jaci Gustafson: or want to view our workshop.
- [00:00:44.680]Jaci Gustafson: probably you'll have to email me if they need it in the next few weeks. But it should be up on the website sometime this summer. But I'll send you guys the slides I can download once we once we get the check in thing to work, I can download all of your emails, and then I can send you the slides. So you have all the links and all the like commentary that I have in here for you. So anyway, I
- [00:01:06.880]Jaci Gustafson: is this too loud? I have to be loud for the zoom to record my voice. Okay.
- [00:01:11.680]Jaci Gustafson: just let me know if it gets if it gets too odd.
- [00:01:14.150]Jaci Gustafson: So this is your AMCAS workshop. I'm Jaci from the Explore Center, and we'll be going through
- [00:01:20.060]Jaci Gustafson: "What is the application process?" And then I'm going to dive in pretty deep to some of the details of the application. And it can be a lot. But I promise you, you will have these questions as you go through, and you will want to
- [00:01:37.580]Jaci Gustafson: know how to do the different steps. But
- [00:01:41.130]Jaci Gustafson: if you do have to zone out a little bit I will be sending you the slides, and so then you can go back and look at things
- [00:01:47.840]Jaci Gustafson: alright. So here's what we're gonna go over. Application. How does verification work for your application cause? That's actually an important part of this whole process, and it can affect your timing of when you hit the submit button. What happens after you submit, and then resources and some questions. There's a lot of resources online like this,
- [00:02:08.610]Jaci Gustafson: AMCAS is provided by the double AMC (AAMC), and they have videos you can watch. Step by step, sections or instructions for each section of the application. So, there is no lack of information online for these kinds of things as well. And I'll give you all those links in this workshop.
- [00:02:29.620]Jaci Gustafson: One resource that I wanted to share about is the MSAR. It's the Medical School Admissions Requirements Database. This can be helpful. This actually has almost nothing to do with AMCAST. But I feel like when you're in this stage, right before you apply
- [00:02:46.506]Jaci Gustafson: you're researching schools. And this is actually a really good centralized place to find out information about, like, what are the interviews like at each school? What's the timeline for their process? When might they be reaching out to you after you submit an application? And it just can be a really great resource. It does require a $28 subscription that lasts for either one or 2 years. I can't remember which.
- [00:03:09.270]Jaci Gustafson: It saves you from having to go to every school's website which can have varying degrees of quality of information on them. So just something I wanted to promote at this point if you're still researching what schools to apply to.
- [00:03:24.550]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, back to the actual application. The homepage for AMCAST is up here, and the applicant guide is one of your key resources. We will go into it. I actually want to show it to you on the next slide, I'll go a little bit farther.
- [00:03:41.590]Jaci Gustafson: Here's the things I think you need to gather before you start your application, a resume, your official transcript, which is not as easy to get a hold of as your unofficial. Official transcripts from any and all colleges that granted you credit for college credit.
- [00:04:01.517]Jaci Gustafson: And then these particular resources. And I'm only going to click on the applicant guide. But these are also really, great lots of videos and resources as well.
- [00:04:14.410]Jaci Gustafson: So applicant guide has every section
- [00:04:17.019]Jaci Gustafson: and lots of great. It can answer a lot of the questions that you might have.
- [00:04:22.007]Jaci Gustafson: So give it a read and use it as a resource as well. So, I just wanted to pull that one up for you.
- [00:04:32.230]Jaci Gustafson: Okay,
- [00:04:33.400]Jaci Gustafson: back to how does this whole thing work.
- [00:04:37.570]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, most of your
- [00:04:40.710]Jaci Gustafson: allopathic medical schools are subscribed to AMCAST. That's all your Md, granting schools, not a hundred percent of them. Any schools. Most schools that are in Texas use a different application service. So, if you're planning on applying to
- [00:04:56.000]Jaci Gustafson: med School A, and then a bunch of schools in Texas, you'll actually have to do 2 separate applications and 2 separate application services. But if you're only planning on applying with into the AMCAST schools, you only have to do all this once, and then you send this information to as many schools as you
- [00:05:13.320]Jaci Gustafson: plan to pay for. The fees for an application is $175, and then for every and that includes one school, and then for every additional school that you want to send your application to. It's $46.
- [00:05:28.650]Jaci Gustafson: This is the general process overview.
- [00:05:31.680]Jaci Gustafson: The application submitted is you. Once you're done doing all the things we're going to talk about today, you submit your application, and the, what constitutes a complete application is
- [00:05:44.720]Jaci Gustafson: you have completed all the sections, all the sections of the application, and you paid your admission fee or your $46, whatever that might be
- [00:05:52.763]Jaci Gustafson: and then
- [00:05:54.250]Jaci Gustafson: but you still have some tasks to complete. You can submit your application without your transcripts being in, without your letters of recommendation in, and without an MCAT score being in. We'll talk about the MACT score in a little bit, because I do have thoughts about that.
- [00:06:11.059]Jaci Gustafson: There is a processing time to your application. So between the time you submit an application, and when your schools are actually gonna get your application, there's 4 to 8 weeks of processing. That AMCAST will do with your application. And so,
- [00:06:27.020]Jaci Gustafson: they won't start that until all of your transcripts are received. That means your UNL transcript. If you took community college classes in high school, if you took over the summer, you took some college courses at another school, once all of those are in, they will start that 4 to 8 weeks. So you don't want those transcripts to be delayed
- [00:06:47.770]Jaci Gustafson: any longer than they absolutely have to. That's probably one of the first things to do when you get in and start your application. The application opened up today, May 1st. So you could actually create an application tonight if you feel excited about that
- [00:07:01.362]Jaci Gustafson: but it's open and ready to go.
- [00:07:03.860]Jaci Gustafson: And then you could start working on your schools, your schools you attended list, and then actually requesting your transcripts even later this week, if you feel like it. So once those are in, then they work on it, they process it.
- [00:07:18.660]Jaci Gustafson: And then they'll send it to the schools that you've indicated, and you can add more schools later. Those don't all have to be added at the same time. Once it's processed, it's processed, and then they can just send them out. Send it out as needed. So, there's no 4 more weeks, if you want to add schools or anything like that.
- [00:07:37.600]Jaci Gustafson: Any questions on that time frame?
- [00:07:42.700]Jaci Gustafson: Okay.
- [00:07:44.830]Jaci Gustafson: So like I said, application open today. You can't submit it any earlier than May 28th.
- [00:07:54.060]Jaci Gustafson: I doubt any of you will get it done by then, because we're still in school, and there's a lot going on.
- [00:07:59.150]Jaci Gustafson: And then, even if you submit it on May 20 eighth, the earliest they would send an application to a school would be June 28th.
- [00:08:07.593]Jaci Gustafson: So they're just telling you the earliest dates
- [00:08:10.530]Jaci Gustafson: for your information. You don't need to hit any of these dates if you can't.
- [00:08:16.942]Jaci Gustafson: Early decision application is due August 1st.
- [00:08:21.600]Jaci Gustafson: So,
- [00:08:22.810]Jaci Gustafson: there's a process with medical schools called early decision, where you can choose one school to apply to early and find out early.
- [00:08:32.360]Jaci Gustafson: And this is ideal when you have a school that you really would like to go to, and you're competitive for, and you wouldn't mind
- [00:08:42.400]Jaci Gustafson: not having any other schools consider you.
- [00:08:45.836]Jaci Gustafson: And so,
- [00:08:47.190]Jaci Gustafson: those applications are due by August 1st.
- [00:08:50.060]Jaci Gustafson: And also, they make an additional requirement for that, your transcripts have to be in by then as well.
- [00:08:56.360]Jaci Gustafson: Those transcripts cannot come in afterwards. Most of the time a transcript can come in within 14 days of an application deadline set by a school. But for EDP those transcripts have to be in by August 1st. So again. You guys are here at this workshop. You're going to get this all done by then, if that's your goal. Not everyone does early decision. It's not ideal for everyone. If you want to look at a lot of different schools, if you think you might be competitive for a lot of different schools, then early decision is not really
- [00:09:24.680]Jaci Gustafson: probably worthwhile for you.
- [00:09:30.100]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, meeting application deadline. Okay? So, every school has their own application deadline.
- [00:09:35.800]Jaci Gustafson: And there is a list online, and I've linked it here. You don't need to go there necessarily, but, they're usually in the fall sometime. They might be November 1st. They might be October 15th, somewhere in the fall. It's
- [00:09:50.350]Jaci Gustafson: always the best practice, though, to submit your application as soon as you have it done during the summer. The earlier you can get in for most of these schools. So higher chance you have of getting an interview because most schools do rolling admission where they'll start to look at students and look at
- [00:10:08.150]Jaci Gustafson: interview slots starting in June.
- [00:10:11.420]Jaci Gustafson: And so,
- [00:10:13.314]Jaci Gustafson: just plan to get it done in the summer, and not to wait until October.
- [00:10:19.600]Jaci Gustafson: There's the fees again. Application or transcripts. MCAT scores. So MCAT scores. If you don't have your MCAT score back by the time you hit the submit button, we call that applying blind. It means that you're submitting an application on the hopes that your MCAT score is appropriate for that school.
- [00:10:40.590]Jaci Gustafson: It's not something I advise, because you end up sending information to a school that you're unaware what it's gonna be, and
- [00:10:49.280]Jaci Gustafson: you can sometimes give the impression that you don't know what medical schools require. That you don't really understand the medical school process, or that you kind of have a misconception about the MCAT, and what that means for admissions. So, I always advise students wait to get your MCAT score, because then you have actual choices where you can decide.
- [00:11:13.260]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, maybe I won't apply school A, but I'll apply to these other schools because I'm more competitive in those areas. For those schools, versus
- [00:11:21.930]Jaci Gustafson: applying to everyone right away and not knowing what kind of a impression you're making. You always want to put your best foot forward with medical school because it's so competitive. I don't recommend applying blind. If you can take your MCAT as early as possible. Then you'll have plenty of time to make good decisions and get your application in early.
- [00:11:43.130]Jaci Gustafson: So there are no deadline extensions. So if you miss that whatever November 1st deadline, for some reason, like something crazy happens, and you don't get your application in this summer, and also not by November.
- [00:11:55.270]Jaci Gustafson: There really aren't any other options.
- [00:11:57.870]Jaci Gustafson: You can't miss Deadlines. You have to wait a year then
- [00:12:02.300]Jaci Gustafson: Any questions on deadlines? Yeah.
- [00:12:16.630]Jaci Gustafson: Great question. Yes. Okay. For the recording purposes. The question is, "If you get a lot done on your application this year and your MCAT score isn't one where you want to actually submit an application this year. What happens? You have to redo everything?" That's the question I had.
- [00:12:32.710]Jaci Gustafson: I have notes on this, and I just wanna check them before I say anything.
- [00:12:38.033]Jaci Gustafson: Yeah, all information rolls over.
- [00:12:41.059]Jaci Gustafson: The next year you need to check that everything's still accurate. But yeah, you don't have to redo everything. So yeah, that's a great question. And yeah, helpful for a person the following year. Yeah?
- [00:12:56.240]Jaci Gustafson: Great question. So, the question is, "If you apply to early decision and aren't accepted through the early decision process.
- [00:13:02.560]Jaci Gustafson: Are you able to apply
- [00:13:05.090]Jaci Gustafson: during the same year to other schools?" Right? Yes, absolutely. Yes, that is an option. The only caveat with that is that
- [00:13:15.400]Jaci Gustafson: your application can't be seen by any other schools until after October 1st.
- [00:13:20.000]Jaci Gustafson: In
- [00:13:21.140]Jaci Gustafson: many schools have thousands of applications by then, if that makes sense. So, if you're doing early decision. You do want to make sure you are pretty competitive for that one school that you're targeting because you are kind of
- [00:13:37.350]Jaci Gustafson: running the risk that some of the other schools might be just done looking at students by that time. They usually aren't. They know that they're students in the early decision pool that might want to apply. But,
- [00:13:48.550]Jaci Gustafson: there's a little more of a risk that the other schools would be kind of farther along in the process, and
- [00:13:54.400]Jaci Gustafson: some schools, and UNMC is one of these, will, if you apply early decision for them, and they don't choose you for early decision. They'll just automatically move you into the next pool, which is the regular pool, and so you'll get considered again. So, you'll get considered in September, and then you'll get considered, maybe in November again against the rest of the pool. If that makes sense.
- [00:14:16.850]Jaci Gustafson: Good question, other questions?
- [00:14:22.421]Jaci Gustafson: Are you ready for them to sign in?
- [00:14:24.540]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, we're going to take a little bit of a break, and if you guys just take your N-cards back to the back and swipe in
- [00:14:30.860]Jaci Gustafson: and then come back.
- [00:14:32.760]Jaci Gustafson: Thanks. Sorry we had a technology issue.
- [00:15:21.120]Jaci Gustafson: Okay? Awesome. Thanks. Guys. Sorry about that.
- [00:15:25.850]Jaci Gustafson: Okay. So we already looked at the things that you might need step-by-step, and I feel like if there's one slide that you'll find pretty much every and any resource that you need. It's this one, it's the before you start slide. I've got the rest of these kind of peppered throughout where they're helpful. One other thing that's nice about the application is even when you're in the application, each section has links to the very specific, relevant content online that will help you fill out that section.
- [00:15:56.920]Jaci Gustafson: So these are the sections of your application. We're gonna spend most of our time on working activities and coursework, because those are the ones that get the most questions on, and we feel like you need the most help preparing for. But we'll go over some of the other ones on the quicker side. Because some of these will be on the easier side, too.
- [00:16:18.770]Jaci Gustafson: Logging in, if you all have already signed up for an MCAT, you already have a AAMC ID number and login. And so, you just use the same one. So go to the AMCAST homepage, sign in, and you can create your account, using all the same information you had before. It knows who you are.
- [00:16:39.053]Jaci Gustafson: This is the homepage and there's a ticker or not a ticker, like a status bar over here, kind of, that tells you what's completed and what's not completed. And then there are some quick links for printing transcripts, transcript forms, transcript request forms, letter request forms and printing the actual application if you need to do that.
- [00:17:03.390]Jaci Gustafson: It will also have a current application status, bar or link here, so you can see what they're doing with your application. Is it in processing? Have they received transcripts? All of that? And so, you'll know you'll be able to check on your process. The main AMCAST website also tells you which date
- [00:17:26.349]Jaci Gustafson: they're working on at that point in time. So they'll say we're done processing applications submitted through
- [00:17:33.320]Jaci Gustafson: June 2nd. So, if you were in that pool,
- [00:17:37.640]Jaci Gustafson: you know that your application is done processing. So they keep that updated on the website.
- [00:17:47.260]Jaci Gustafson: There's links on the left here to some helpful resources. So these should be
- [00:17:54.200]Jaci Gustafson: available to you easily. The first section is identifying information which hopefully, should be quite easy for you, because it's just things like name and address. The one thing I wanted to highlight was ID numbers.
- [00:18:06.078]Jaci Gustafson: This is optional, but it is helpful sometimes for you to add your NUID in here as an ID number, because if something gets lost, especially like your transcript, which doesn't happen like, I've never had it happen since we started doing E transcripts, anyway. But it can help just to put your NUID in there. It's not like it's your social security number, or anything like that. I don't think you
- [00:18:30.690]Jaci Gustafson: have to put that elsewhere. Maybe you do, but that can help.
- [00:18:35.240]Jaci Gustafson: The next section is schools attended.
- [00:18:38.590]Jaci Gustafson: Sorry, I don't know how to get that bar to go away, but
- [00:18:41.290]Jaci Gustafson: thought it would on its own.
- [00:18:43.540]Jaci Gustafson: The basics of this, you have to enter every school from which you earned any college credit and so
- [00:18:51.880]Jaci Gustafson: a lot of your, if you have credit from other schools. Yes, it it is represented on the UNL Transcript. But AMCAST won't accept the UNL
- [00:19:00.400]Jaci Gustafson: transcript for another school's credit. It has to come directly from that school. So, if you have attended a lot of schools, or you, you have a lot of credit from a lot of schools. You will have a lot of transcripts to request.
- [00:19:11.610]Jaci Gustafson: And
- [00:19:12.470]Jaci Gustafson: yeah, I already said this part. There is a very small
- [00:19:17.280]Jaci Gustafson: minority of
- [00:19:19.740]Jaci Gustafson: study abroad institutions where there can be transcript exceptions where you don't need them. But it's very very rare. Did anyone study abroad?
- [00:19:29.090]Jaci Gustafson: Okay. So, you all will want to pay close attention to the sections of the Applicant Guide that talk about study abroad.
- [00:19:39.610]Jaci Gustafson: If you got credit through a school, or it was transferred to UNL. You'll also still need, almost always still need a transcript.
- [00:19:50.050]Jaci Gustafson: Hold on, how does that work. I'm not going to say it because I'm going to say it wrong. But read the Guide, and it will tell you. Yes?
- [00:20:09.850]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Okay, I think you should set up an advising appointment and go over that with one of our pre-emptive advisors. Yeah.
- [00:20:15.970]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Your hand was up first.
- [00:20:19.800]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] I'll get to that. Yep.
- [00:20:27.860]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Yeah, you need a UNO transcript. Yep, correct yeah, UNO metro, any other school.
- [00:20:38.310]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Sometimes on these study Raj, just as a note. Sometimes we end up having to call AMCAST
- [00:20:43.550]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] itself and ask like what to do here, because it can be very.
- [00:20:47.840]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] They can't.
- [00:20:49.249]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] None of us can know what all the institutions are that you could possibly go to. So we always, you know, wanna be sure. But set up an appointment and we can help you either call them or find it on the website.
- [00:21:04.200]Jaci Gustafson: Okay. One thing that is helpful to us as a school, to UNL is
- [00:21:10.488]Jaci Gustafson: if you click "Yes" on authorizing information to your school. And that would just be to UNL. It's not going to go to UNO and the other schools that you attended. It's going to be your primary school. That helps us track how our pre-med students doing? When are they applying?
- [00:21:26.861]Jaci Gustafson: What are MCAT scores looking like, things like that. So, that's really helpful for us if you click the "yes" there. It doesn't share, we are not allowed to share that information with anyone else. I have to. Every time I log in to look at the numbers I have to say, I will not share this with. I will not share individual information with anyone. I can only share, like.
- [00:21:46.140]Jaci Gustafson: What was our average MCAT score?Things like that.
- [00:21:52.510]Jaci Gustafson: Transcript request.
- [00:21:54.240]Jaci Gustafson: Usually you're going to say "Yes" to this question, "Does AMCAST require an official transcript from this school?" Like pretty much always. It's a "Yes" except in some very, very specific study brought situations.
- [00:22:08.300]Jaci Gustafson: One of the questions under schools attended is institutional action. I have examples on here on what that could be.
- [00:22:15.960]Jaci Gustafson: And, when you would have to say "Yes". So, if you have any of these, you'd have to say, "Yes", this is not an exhaustive list.
- [00:22:23.510]Jaci Gustafson: But,
- [00:22:25.060]Jaci Gustafson: on any of these things where it's asking you like, "Did you do something wrong?" You need to report it. As a premed and future medical student and future doctor. You're going to have a bunch of
- [00:22:37.230]Jaci Gustafson: background checks done on you, and they really do not take highly to hidden information. That's an ethical issue, and really can put in jeopardy your ability to finish medical school and to get a license. So always say yes, and then you get
- [00:22:55.250]Jaci Gustafson: characters to explain what happened, and advice on that is.
- [00:22:59.910]Jaci Gustafson: We all make mistakes right, especially when we're 18 years old or 20 years old. Explain what happened. Stick to the facts. Take responsibility for what was your responsibility, and then talk about how you grew as a person, and
- [00:23:16.700]Jaci Gustafson: how you've never done it again.
- [00:23:20.070]Jaci Gustafson: But if you don't report things, that's a really big red flag if they find out about it later.
- [00:23:30.570]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, this is the information on study abroad. No.
- [00:23:34.650]Jaci Gustafson: Yes. This is the information on study abroad, I can't see my titles. Yeah, there we go.
- [00:23:40.290]Jaci Gustafson: Maybe not as helpful as it could be, I'm hearing. So might need to dig into that a little bit further.
- [00:23:47.620]Jaci Gustafson: So, you have two options for sending your transcripts. You can send it by paper. You can send it electronic. I don't know what other undergraduate schools you have to request transcripts from. But if you're doing it from UNL, just do it electronically. There's no point to doing it by paper. It's way faster if you do an electronic option.
- [00:24:07.560]Jaci Gustafson: But I did put in here. If you did want to do it by paper through the UNL Office of Registrar. This is what you have to do. You print the transcript request form, either from the schools attended menu list here, right next to the school. It has create transcript request form, or from that main menu item that we saw at the very beginning. And, print to PDF, you know, unless you're doing a paper
- [00:24:34.310]Jaci Gustafson: And if you wanted to send it in by paper, you would email it. Email that
- [00:24:39.130]Jaci Gustafson: transcript request to register. Don't do this if you are doing this for UNL. There's no reason to, because we have electronic transcripts and it's faster. This is what a transcript request form looks like. All these numbers are important, where it gives you the AAMC ID and transcript ID. You do need to know that those, even if you are requesting an electronic transcript.
- [00:25:01.213]Jaci Gustafson: So you do want to download these, even if you're doing e-transcript and save them so that you have that information. And then you'll attach this to your electronic request.
- [00:25:11.790]Jaci Gustafson: If you haven't requested a UNL transcript through the electronic version,
- [00:25:18.870]Jaci Gustafson: first thing you'll need is that AAMC ID and the transcript id, and then it's downloaded form.
- [00:25:25.410]Jaci Gustafson: And then go into your MyRed, order official transcript. I have all these steps on here. I'm gonna kind of go through them fast because it's not super hard, but you can get lost a little bit. It takes you to the National Clearing House website.
- [00:25:39.765]Jaci Gustafson: And then, you do order transfer from here.
- [00:25:43.470]Jaci Gustafson: You have to fill in your name and your address, and like, your date of birth and stuff. Then you eventually get to this
- [00:25:50.950]Jaci Gustafson: screen where it asks you who the recipient is.
- [00:25:54.830]Jaci Gustafson: And it's an educational organization, application service, or scholarship,
- [00:25:59.990]Jaci Gustafson: professional licensing, whatever. It's that one that I circled there.
- [00:26:04.530]Jaci Gustafson: And then, you find American Medical College Application Service.
- [00:26:09.510]Jaci Gustafson: It's not under AMCAST. So that threw me for a little bit because I was looking for that acronym, not for the whole thing spelled out.
- [00:26:16.670]Jaci Gustafson: But that's who who is getting this.
- [00:26:20.480]Jaci Gustafson: And then here's where once you choose that it has the space for your AAMC ID number, and then your transcript ID.
- [00:26:29.290]Jaci Gustafson: After this screen. On the top. I didn't show you that one, because I'm not still in school. It didn't give me all the options, but it gives you the options of when to process the transcript.
- [00:26:41.510]Jaci Gustafson: And, if you're ordering this transcript like this weekend. Say, you got started. You're Gung Ho! You're doing it. You're not done with your spring grades yet, and those need to be on your transcript. So, you choose the hold for grade option, or, it might say, hold for current semester grades
- [00:27:01.060]Jaci Gustafson: and then the registrar will know not to process it until all the grades are in for spring semester.
- [00:27:08.470]Jaci Gustafson: Then add file is where you can attach that transcript request form that you already downloaded, and then there's like one or two more screens. I don't think I had them on here because they're just like purchase information and all that.
- [00:27:20.061]Jaci Gustafson: And that's how you make that request from UNL.
- [00:27:23.362]Jaci Gustafson: Some of your other schools will also use National Clearinghouse, probably, so it'll be a very, very similar
- [00:27:29.470]Jaci Gustafson: screenshot kind of thing, but some of them will will use other
- [00:27:33.060]Jaci Gustafson: services for the e-transcript. Parchment is one of them, and the only difference, because we used to use parchment. The only difference with a parchment system is that AMCAST was actually under AMCAS not American Medical College Association
- [00:27:48.240]Jaci Gustafson: something, Application Service. And so
- [00:27:51.730]Jaci Gustafson: that was the only difference. Otherwise it's pretty much the same. You can attach your file. You can add in your ID numbers and everything.
- [00:28:00.350]Jaci Gustafson: Any questions about transcripts?
- [00:28:05.230]Jaci Gustafson: Okay.
- [00:28:08.760]Jaci Gustafson: So biographic information is a lot about you as a person and about your background. The one thing that I wanted to highlight was under the Citizenship section is where you can list if you have DACA status, and there's a list of schools accept students based on DACA status. So, I put that in there for helpfulness. The other sections that can come into play are
- [00:28:34.640]Jaci Gustafson: the felony in the misdemeanor. And again, like I said on the institutional action, you want to absolutely
- [00:28:45.540]Jaci Gustafson: report anything that ever happened that you were
- [00:28:49.980]Jaci Gustafson: convicted of.
- [00:28:51.683]Jaci Gustafson: It says, convicted of, pled guilty or no contest to.
- [00:28:56.370]Jaci Gustafson: And so
- [00:28:57.660]Jaci Gustafson: I've never had a person
- [00:29:00.370]Jaci Gustafson: fill this one out. But I have definitely had a lot of students have the misdemeanor, things like MIP, or trespassing, or public
- [00:29:10.362]Jaci Gustafson: loudness. I don't remember what that one's actually called, the real crime for that.
- [00:29:15.740]Jaci Gustafson: So
- [00:29:17.420]Jaci Gustafson: if you do have something like this,
- [00:29:20.990]Jaci Gustafson: I encourage you to share it. Even if
- [00:29:24.440]Jaci Gustafson: you think it's been like expunged, or whatever. None of us in this room are lawyers, and so
- [00:29:32.750]Jaci Gustafson: I don't know all the legal ease of what expunged, or there's some other words
- [00:29:37.780]Jaci Gustafson: field. I don't know what all those mean, and I don't know if the background checks you're going to have to take will actually find those. The last thing you want is something to be disclosed later that you didn't disclose now, because that is a big ethical issue. And it will put you in jeopardy for licensing and things like that. So
- [00:29:55.870]Jaci Gustafson: there's no,
- [00:29:58.430]Jaci Gustafson: medical schools understand that people make mistakes and I'm sure if you talk to doctors that you shadowed. Either they had MIPS, they were in school with people with MIPS, or with any of these kinds of misdemeanors, and it all worked out just fine because they learned something from that situation, and they moved on from it. So, you do get an opportunity to explain things.
- [00:30:23.170]Jaci Gustafson: The last thing to do in the explanation is to blame other people. So there is a reason. Maybe you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But,
- [00:30:34.170]Jaci Gustafson: there is a reason that you were charged. And so, you do want to take responsibility for whatever it is that
- [00:30:41.306]Jaci Gustafson: was your responsibility. And then talk about how you learned something from that. How you've never done it again, or
- [00:30:50.224]Jaci Gustafson: what you did to kind of reconcile, whatever happened.
- [00:30:59.430]Jaci Gustafson: There's another section in the biographic information called "Other Impactful Experiences".
- [00:31:04.200]Jaci Gustafson: And there's some help text. And I popped it up here. These are ways you can add
- [00:31:12.960]Jaci Gustafson: background information on yourself that doesn't fit into some of the other sections of the application. So medical schools are interested in. If you had to overcome significant barriers educationally, economically family-wise.
- [00:31:29.654]Jaci Gustafson: Just different various things that may have been big barriers for you to get where you are today. They're interested in hearing about that. And maybe that's not something you wrote about in your personal statement. But here's another opportunity for you to write about that. And so, there's some help text here. And some things to kind of coach you on writing. It's optional. So not every student has to do this.
- [00:31:53.710]Jaci Gustafson: And,
- [00:31:55.330]Jaci Gustafson: I would say, it's probably 50/50, students that I've had do it or don't do it.
- [00:32:02.650]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, COVID would not be another impactful experience, because it's something we all experienced. It's not a unique situation to your background. However,
- [00:32:13.437]Jaci Gustafson: some a little bit of advice on COVID.
- [00:32:16.010]Jaci Gustafson: Make sure you do report all activities that you can that you completed even if they weren't your ideal because of COVID, maybe you couldn't be out in the healthcare setting
- [00:32:29.620]Jaci Gustafson: because that was restricted. Make sure to list anything virtually that you did to stay involved.
- [00:32:36.880]Jaci Gustafson: Or things you did, to help out the people who were suffering from COVID, or some of the social issues that were happening during that time.
- [00:32:45.536]Jaci Gustafson: The AMCAST application does not have a section specific to COVID for you to talk about, to write anything in there. But many of secondary applications. Now, that is an application that you get sent from a particular school. So, you submit an application to AMCAST.
- [00:33:03.350]Jaci Gustafson: That's a lot of information about you, and that goes to the schools.
- [00:33:07.470]Jaci Gustafson: Each school has a little bit more information that they want to know about you, very specific questions they'll have you answer, maybe some more biographical information they want to know about you. That's what we call a secondary application. You'll get those at various times. Every school has a different process, for when they send those out, and who they send them out to.
- [00:33:27.399]Jaci Gustafson: But a lot of secondary applications. It's common for them to have a place for you to talk about COVID and maybe explain how COVID impacted you, or impacted your progress with your pre-med goals, so that would be a better place to put stuff about COVID.
- [00:33:44.930]Jaci Gustafson: And they want to know the context if you had anything happened during COVID.
- [00:33:52.490]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, coursework. Coursework is probably,
- [00:33:56.000]Jaci Gustafson: well coursework and work and activities are what you're going to spend the bulk of your time doing. They're what takes the most thought, the most time. Basically, in the course work section, you have to line by line, report every class and every grade you've ever had. That's why they want all those transcripts.
- [00:34:14.159]Jaci Gustafson: So, this is a very tedious process and takes a long time. But it's a really important part of the application.
- [00:34:23.969]Jaci Gustafson: The advice for double AMC (AAMC), and from what I've seen too, is use an official transcript to complete this section. That's why I said at the very beginning in our before you start slide,
- [00:34:35.030]Jaci Gustafson: start with an an official transcript from all your institutions. Make sure you get those ordered for yourself
- [00:34:43.350]Jaci Gustafson: and then get the coursework entered in.
- [00:34:47.870]Jaci Gustafson: So how? What happens with your coursework?
- [00:34:51.497]Jaci Gustafson: The reason you're doing coursework is so that they can calculate your GPA
- [00:34:57.240]Jaci Gustafson: for MED schools. And there's multiple different GPA's that they will calculate.
- [00:35:02.000]Jaci Gustafson: But here's some general things that you'll need to know. AMCAST counts all plus and minuses, even if your school does not.
- [00:35:10.503]Jaci Gustafson: No credit hours or AMCAST grade will be assigned for withdrawals. So, if you withdrew from a class, it doesn't count as anything,
- [00:35:18.507]Jaci Gustafson: just like it doesn't count as anything here at UNL.
- [00:35:21.565]Jaci Gustafson: AMCAST counts all attempts of a repeated course, even if your school does not. So that's where it does differ from your UNL GPA. If you repeated anything, both attempts, both grades will be counted in your GPA, rather than just one.
- [00:35:37.390]Jaci Gustafson: Grades and credit hours for all failed courses are included.
- [00:35:42.180]Jaci Gustafson: That's pretty self-explanatory. Academic forgiveness policy. There isn't one, basically is what that says.
- [00:35:48.610]Jaci Gustafson: It's all counted
- [00:35:50.840]Jaci Gustafson: in your Med school GPA.
- [00:35:56.561]Jaci Gustafson: So, request official transcript. You are going to enter AP/IB Credit. College credit from other schools. Withdrawals, incompletes, fails. Pass/No pass and repeats. Regardless of if a withdrawal doesn't
- [00:36:11.180]Jaci Gustafson: affect anything, you still have to list it. It's important that it's on there.
- [00:36:16.803]Jaci Gustafson: Coursework you transferred to UNL should be entered under the school at which it was taken, not under UNL. So, you'll enter your coursework under each school. So, it won't be all in one big
- [00:36:28.240]Jaci Gustafson: bucket, it'll be in the buckets per school.
- [00:36:32.160]Jaci Gustafson: You also should enter your current and future course work.
- [00:36:36.850]Jaci Gustafson: You won't have any current coursework from this semester, because you're going to wait for them to get the transcript from this semester. It'll be done by the time you enter all of this, or finish entering all of this. But if you have any summer classes or anything happening next fall and spring for your classes.
- [00:36:53.900]Jaci Gustafson: You want to list those on the application as well. Those things can change, current and future coursework does not have to be something that you absolutely commit to. But you want to give them an idea of what you're taking next year.
- [00:37:07.570]Jaci Gustafson: Especially if you're finishing any prerequisites next year for any schools. You shouldn't be, those should all be done by now, especially if you're taking an MCAT. But occasionally, there's a class left over that you're still taking in the senior year, the final year.
- [00:37:24.860]Jaci Gustafson: So, here's a coursework entry box. And this is just for one course. So, there's
- [00:37:29.630]Jaci Gustafson: like 20 different things you have to enter about each course, which is, remember, very tedious. So, they ask you for the academic year. And this actually needs to be as correct as possible. The
- [00:37:43.900]Jaci Gustafson: academic year starts in the summer for AMCAST.
- [00:37:47.500]Jaci Gustafson: Which is different from how UNL does things with summer. So, if you took a summer 2023 class. That would be academic year 2023-2024.
- [00:37:57.519]Jaci Gustafson: The academic term is summer for that particular class. You'll get summer, fall, etc. Different choices for the term.
- [00:38:06.052]Jaci Gustafson: Then I have the link to the Coursework guide which will really lead you through all of this.
- [00:38:11.861]Jaci Gustafson: Year in school. They want to know what year you took each class. There is a guide and a chart in the applicant guide. It's more based on what year you were at UNL versus credit hours, because I know some people are like juniors by their sophomore year.
- [00:38:27.820]Jaci Gustafson: Look at the chart and make sure you follow the chart.
- [00:38:32.370]Jaci Gustafson: That one is a little more flexible, and in what you might put there. But,
- [00:38:38.015]Jaci Gustafson: the one thing that's helpful, any college level courses you took in high school. You'll use your year in school equal high school.
- [00:38:45.790]Jaci Gustafson: Ap/IB, CLEP or Exempt credit
- [00:38:50.120]Jaci Gustafson: would be freshman year for year in school.
- [00:38:53.250]Jaci Gustafson: Then see applicant guide for all the rest of them, just to make sure you're following their chart, for what academic year you were in for a particular course.
- [00:39:03.570]Jaci Gustafson: When you're putting the name of the course in here, course number is like LIFE120
- [00:39:09.090]Jaci Gustafson: and then the name, you want to copy exactly as the transcript has it.
- [00:39:13.929]Jaci Gustafson: So, the reason for that is part of that 4 to 8 weeks of processing is them checking over what you entered versus what's on your transcript. And so
- [00:39:26.270]Jaci Gustafson: I use this example because, all the words aren't really spelled out, and you just want to copy it straight from your transcript because you just want it to match, because someone's just checking to make sure things are matching
- [00:39:37.946]Jaci Gustafson: So, Fund of Biology, not Fundamentals of Biology. Don't write it out. Just copy it from your transcript.
- [00:39:44.160]Jaci Gustafson: You want to be copying this from your official transcript. So, you're doing things exactly how AMCAST is going to compare it.
- [00:39:51.730]Jaci Gustafson: Course classification, I think, is next. Yep.
- [00:39:55.720]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci is taking to students] And I gave you all one of those. When you came in, a course classification guide. It's also online, and we'll probably go there just for
- [00:40:06.000]Jaci Gustafson: fun.
- [00:40:10.440]Jaci Gustafson: So you have to classify every class
- [00:40:13.930]Jaci Gustafson: as a certain 4 letter thing, here,
- [00:40:18.910]Jaci Gustafson: and it gives you examples underneath each 4 letter
- [00:40:22.680]Jaci Gustafson: category of what might be included.
- [00:40:26.630]Jaci Gustafson: And the way that you make these determinations is
- [00:40:32.300]Jaci Gustafson: based on the primary content of the course. I know there's some weird classes at UNL that are like
- [00:40:38.910]Jaci Gustafson: maybe it's Biology. Maybe it's Psychology.
- [00:40:43.070]Jaci Gustafson: But it's really up to you to make that determination and pick the course classification that it goes under.
- [00:40:51.792]Jaci Gustafson: Why this matters? Is that
- [00:40:55.660]Jaci Gustafson: Let me see if there's anything at the bottom. Nope.
- [00:40:58.020]Jaci Gustafson: Why this matters, is that when AMCAST calculates GPA's. They calculate multiple different GPA's. But the biggest one is your science GPA, and how they calculate, that is using biology, chemistry, physics, and math, and you'll see statistics is under math.
- [00:41:17.135]Jaci Gustafson: And that's your science GPA.
- [00:41:19.820]Jaci Gustafson: So, any class that falls into that area will be calculated into your science, GPA, and then they also
- [00:41:28.450]Jaci Gustafson: calculate, and all other courses which is anything down here that you categorize as other
- [00:41:34.210]Jaci Gustafson: into these categories.
- [00:41:37.240]Jaci Gustafson: So,
- [00:41:44.700]Jaci Gustafson: AMCAST will double check and change course classifications if they disagree.
- [00:41:50.240]Jaci Gustafson: So, you want to be as accurate as possible. If they have to change more than I think it's 10 things, they'll kick your application back to you, and then you'll be delayed a couple of weeks again. So, you really don't want that to happen, which is why being as accurate as possible is really important.
- [00:42:08.330]Jaci Gustafson: There's a little bit of helpfulness here. If you're struggling on course classification. "For interdisciplinary courses
- [00:42:17.270]Jaci Gustafson: refer to the description of the course on your school's website." So that would be our undergraduate catalog.
- [00:42:22.720]Jaci Gustafson: Or you can talk with a pre-health advisor to choose the most appropriate course classification.
- [00:42:27.837]Jaci Gustafson: So whatever's in the undergraduate catalog. Thats what AMCAST is going to refer to see what was this class. Was it a biology, or was it a psychology class? So, I would use that, if you contacted one of us,
- [00:42:41.430]Jaci Gustafson: we didn't take the class, and so we don't know what you spent most of your time doing. That's what I'm going to ask you. What did you spend most of your time doing?
- [00:42:47.810]Jaci Gustafson: Was it biology or psychology? What do you think?
- [00:42:51.097]Jaci Gustafson: So that's kind of how that conversation usually goes? Yes.
- [00:42:56.770]Jaci Gustafson: that's what this is talking about.
- [00:43:00.740]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Right.
- [00:43:02.160]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yep. Based on the primary content of the course.
- [00:43:04.790]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah. So cross listed courses. If it's half and half. And you know if it's half and half, and they're both BCPM classes. It's not going to really matter.
- [00:43:13.930]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Do your best and look at the
- [00:43:16.911]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] undergraduate catalog to try to pick one, but the biology and the psychology is a good example, because biology would be part of your BCPM science GPA and psychology wouldn't be so. You want to be as accurate as possible there, because
- [00:43:33.730]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] AMCAST will really care where that class goes.
- [00:43:40.190]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci reading student questions] AP/IB. Oh, shoot. She left, and she asked about AP/IB.
- [00:43:44.502]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] You don't need to send your score reports to AMCAST, but you do need to report the courses under the school that first gave you credit, which is usually UNL for our students.
- [00:43:57.290]Jaci Gustafson: And then you mark them. There's a whole tutorial on it, but you mark them as
- [00:44:01.700]Jaci Gustafson: AP. So at the bottom of each course
- [00:44:04.510]Jaci Gustafson: You'll do the credit hours. You'll do the grade. Grade is optional because AP classes don't have a grade, so you'll leave that blank for AP and then you would check mark as an AP class
- [00:44:16.330]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] or an IB. Yeah.
- [00:44:23.420]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Did you take the exam for it? The AP Exam for it.
- [00:44:27.950]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Okay, so I wouldn't report them both. Well
- [00:44:32.790]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] you might need to. That's a good question to call AMCAST and ask.
- [00:44:37.333]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] They have a really great customer service line. I would actually call them and ask.
- [00:44:43.840]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [00:44:46.240]Jaci Gustafson: This is also where you would check mark if this is an honors class, is it a repeat? And then where you would designate this is a current or future course. Now, you would think they could figure that out based on the fact that you have it set for 2024-2025. But they want you to also check mark the box as well.
- [00:45:03.860]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah?
- [00:45:22.770]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Did you take the AP exams for them?
- [00:45:26.860]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, yeah.
- [00:45:28.717]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] The ones that you didn't take the AP Exams for. Just put them under the school that you got the credit for.
- [00:45:34.460]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] And then, yeah, the ones that you did both. UNL didn't give you credit for both of those. So, you don't have credit for one of those, if that makes sense. If you took AP English, and you took the exam, and then you got credit from UNO you only got credit once there, so I actually don't know what AMCAST wants you to do on that.
- [00:45:55.030]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [00:46:00.130]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, and this is what your coursework list will look like under one school. You can change and edit these as many times as you want to, before you submit your application. But there is no way to change them after you submit the application.
- [00:46:14.070]Jaci Gustafson: That's that's the same with a lot of things that you're going to submit. You can't really change things after you submit it.
- [00:46:19.620]Jaci Gustafson: Common mistakes. If your transcript shows letter grades do not enter numeric values in the grade field.
- [00:46:27.777]Jaci Gustafson: Don't flip, flop a course number and course name. That's why I gave you an example here.
- [00:46:33.647]Jaci Gustafson: Don't enter any special characters or symbols just like letters and numbers.
- [00:46:38.620]Jaci Gustafson: Don't enter your summer courses in the wrong academic year. That's apparently a big no no.
- [00:46:45.130]Jaci Gustafson: Don't enter physics classes in the natural and physical sciences, enter it under physics.
- [00:46:51.061]Jaci Gustafson: Don't skip, withdraw, withdrawn classes, or repeated courses. And don't forget to add your AP classes.
- [00:46:58.900]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, any questions about coursework. We're going to move on to the work activity section.
- [00:47:03.520]Jaci Gustafson: Okay.
- [00:47:05.730]Jaci Gustafson: So,
- [00:47:07.800]Jaci Gustafson: here's where you use your resume and all the things you've been working so hard at to get done outside of classroom, activities, awards, credentials, research,
- [00:47:19.830]Jaci Gustafson: experiences you've had all go in here.
- [00:47:23.394]Jaci Gustafson: There's some really great tools and the work activities guide is absolute gold for figuring out how to do this, and how to put the right dates down, how to enter repeated experiences. And so I've linked it here because it's super helpful. There's also a workbook. It's not going to be as helpful.
- [00:47:40.706]Jaci Gustafson: Now that the application is open. But before the application opens it's like a word doc you could fill out for practice, putting your app your activities in order. If you wanted to practice writing about them and things, most people use a word document just themselves
- [00:47:58.700]Jaci Gustafson: to sort of
- [00:47:59.840]Jaci Gustafson: write up their experiences. And then,
- [00:48:03.760]Jaci Gustafson: you can't copy paste into AMCAST because it messes things up, but then transfer it to the application.
- [00:48:11.370]Jaci Gustafson: Okay. So, work activities does allow for multiple experiences of the same thing. So, let's say you were a summer camp counselor multiple summers in a row.
- [00:48:23.200]Jaci Gustafson: This would be a repeated experience. So you don't need to write a new entry for each summer, because if you did the same thing each summer.
- [00:48:31.090]Jaci Gustafson: Don't waste the space. So, you would click "Yes" and then it gives you another start date, end date, total hours, years to indicate the second time you did that same experience. So that's kind of nice when things are separated by years. Or if you were an RA for a couple of years and like you're not an RA during the summer. So those dates are separated by a summer.
- [00:48:54.354]Jaci Gustafson: This would be a repeated experience, things like that.
- [00:48:57.950]Jaci Gustafson: You get 15 entries,
- [00:48:59.980]Jaci Gustafson: and you can
- [00:49:03.270]Jaci Gustafson: manipulate that as much as you want to to get as much in there as you can. There are strategies to that I would
- [00:49:09.418]Jaci Gustafson: refer you to meet with one of our pre-health advisors to get some advice on that. But you can get a lot in there for 15 entries. You also get to designate
- [00:49:20.240]Jaci Gustafson: 3 most meaningful experiences. And you get to write more about those experiences. Each regular experience I think you get about
- [00:49:30.920]Jaci Gustafson: 700 characters to write about each experience. And you summarize what you did and how that's going to help you in your future.
- [00:49:40.610]Jaci Gustafson: But 3 most meaningful. And then you get to write a little bit more about those
- [00:49:48.510]Jaci Gustafson: You have to categorize each experience.
- [00:49:55.780]Jaci Gustafson: They're not going to kick back your application because you accidentally picked the wrong one of these, but you should try to be as
- [00:50:04.810]Jaci Gustafson: accurate as you can to what the actual experience was. So,
- [00:50:10.600]Jaci Gustafson: these are the options. This is also a good one to like.
- [00:50:15.810]Jaci Gustafson: Talk with an advisor about it if you're not sure what to categorize something as. We'll sure give you our best opinion as well. But
- [00:50:24.120]Jaci Gustafson: the rightness and wrongness of this is not quite as black and white as the courses, and so you can pick whichever one you think is best.
- [00:50:35.500]Jaci Gustafson: So, a few tips on work and activities. Make sure you describe the activity.
- [00:50:42.910]Jaci Gustafson: So that someone would know what you were responsible for with the particular activity. Don't be too general. Make sure they know what you did, because this is about you.
- [00:50:51.792]Jaci Gustafson: Make sure you describe the activity as if someone didn't have any background experience with these activities. So, things that we all know here at UNL.
- [00:51:03.050]Jaci Gustafson: HMED or Innocent's society, and NU MEDS, the big event. We all know what those are, but no one else does. And so, you need to explain a little bit about what the activity was and the organization a little bit. You don't want to waste too many characters on the organization. But people might not know what you mean because you're sending these applications to a lot of schools who aren't familiar with our activities here.
- [00:51:27.248]Jaci Gustafson: You can combine experiences. And this is what I was referring to when saying, you can kind of manipulate these experiences as much as you want to.
- [00:51:36.240]Jaci Gustafson: So, if you had a bunch of different volunteering activities that
- [00:51:40.450]Jaci Gustafson: you don't have a lot to say about you, did you did the hours and you want to record the hours. But you don't have a lot of
- [00:51:47.810]Jaci Gustafson: you don't need a lot of room to talk about these volunteering activities.
- [00:51:51.200]Jaci Gustafson: That would be a good candidate for combining all those experiences into one entry, so that it's only using up one of the 15 slots to save the other slots for things that you had more to say about that were more meaningful to you, or that you're more you're wanting to show off a little bit more.
- [00:52:06.490]Jaci Gustafson: And so if you're combining experiences like, say, you volunteered at People City Mission, you did the big event. You did
- [00:52:16.400]Jaci Gustafson: some of other service opportunities that were sort of one day kinds of things here and there. If you combine all those together, make sure you write what you did, but you list yourself as the contact person, because there's no one person, like the person at People City Mission can't vouch for all the other things that you did. So, you're not going to list them as the contact person.
- [00:52:37.420]Jaci Gustafson: I know that sounds weird, but for a combined experience you list yourself. For all the other experiences, the contact person. I don't have it on this screen. It's below organization name needs to be like your supervisor or
- [00:52:52.770]Jaci Gustafson: someone who could
- [00:52:54.630]Jaci Gustafson: verify if they were called, that you did the activity that you said that you did.
- [00:53:02.817]Jaci Gustafson: Sometimes people combine shadowing, some shadowing experiences all into one to save space.
- [00:53:10.721]Jaci Gustafson: Your main strategy for this is like, what can you get the most bang for your buck of your 15 slots. What can you show about yourself with your 15 slots, and not to waste slots on things where you don't have a lot to say.
- [00:53:26.330]Jaci Gustafson: 700 characters.
- [00:53:28.770]Jaci Gustafson: Here's things to cover. What did I do? What was my role? What does this organization attempt to accomplish?
- [00:53:34.990]Jaci Gustafson: What were one to two significant things I learned from this experience. How did I grow?
- [00:53:40.988]Jaci Gustafson: And any details if you need to clarify the boxes, like if you're not sure you did the hours right, or you have questions about the hours you could write that into in the description. If you needed to.
- [00:53:56.340]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Yes.
- [00:53:57.280]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Yep. So, the question was, "We can list patient care hours?" Yes.
- [00:54:00.600]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] You can see one of the
- [00:54:05.560]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] work activities that one might have been paid or unpaid. It depends on what you were doing, but a patient care experience would be probably paid employment medical clinical. That would be that category. Yeah.
- [00:54:20.440]Jaci Gustafson: This is another side about what to think about and what to write about in your work activity section.
- [00:54:27.010]Jaci Gustafson: Hours, hours can be a little bit complicated. There's there are 2
- [00:54:34.240]Jaci Gustafson: places I think I have here. So this is for one. This is for one activity. And so they have a section for completed hours, and then they'll have the same section for anticipated hours, and they do want you to break those out. They want to know what's been completed and what has yet to happen.
- [00:54:53.077]Jaci Gustafson: An anticipated activity could be an entirely new future experience that hasn't started yet. It should be something you've already been hired for, or already been approved for.
- [00:55:05.390]Jaci Gustafson: Not just something like oh, I might do that next year. That's not an anticipated activity. If someone were to call
- [00:55:14.000]Jaci Gustafson: someone next year and say, "Did this person do that?" and you didn't do it. That would be not great. But anticipated activity
- [00:55:22.311]Jaci Gustafson: could also be an upcoming plan experience that is a continuation of a completed experience. So more so. These are probably going to be more common for you. You've been working at Madonna. I'm going to use Stephen for an example. You've been working at Madonna, completed hours, would go
- [00:55:37.850]Jaci Gustafson: here, and then continued anticipated hours would go here.
- [00:55:44.590]Jaci Gustafson: Questions about that?
- [00:55:50.550]Jaci Gustafson: I linked the guide again, which goes into great detail in current and anticipated activities. So I really think that's a great resource. Anticipated hours and activities. I would say, don't carry a ton of weight in the medical school application as a whole.
- [00:56:07.854]Jaci Gustafson: As medical schools will treat those more as sort of tentative rather than completed. But you do want to report them, because it's nice for them to know that you have a commitment going on with with certain things, or you're planning on certain things.
- [00:56:21.970]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Yes.
- [00:56:26.580]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Oh, good question. Yeah. So no, it doesn't take us a spot from the 15. So, like, let's use Madonna for an example. You've been working at Madonna for, you know, years.
- [00:56:37.500]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] It's all the same entry, and the entry has completed hours and anticipated hours. It's all one entry.
- [00:56:43.370]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] If that makes sense. Is that what you're asking?
- [00:56:57.610]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering a student's question] Good question. Yeah. So, the question is, if you had 0 hours of something, and you wanted to show it on the application as an anticipated activity. Would that take up a slot? Right? Yeah, yes, it would. Yep.
- [00:57:10.900]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci asking if students have more questions] Good question. Other questions
- [00:57:17.420]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci asking if students have more questions] Okay, that's all on work activities. Anything else on that? You guys wanted to ask that section overall.
- [00:57:27.170]Jaci Gustafson: Okay.
- [00:57:28.120]Jaci Gustafson: Next section is just really quick letters of evaluation. I actually think I got some
- [00:57:33.490]Jaci Gustafson: slides out of order. Yep, I did.
- [00:57:37.037]Jaci Gustafson: So I'm gonna skip that and go to medical schools.
- [00:57:42.200]Jaci Gustafson: So here's where you enter what schools you want, your application sent to
- [00:57:46.774]Jaci Gustafson: and that's pretty explanatory in and of itself. There is some help text there, too.
- [00:57:53.740]Jaci Gustafson: That one's not hard. And then you do essay. We have whole other workshops on essays. They're already over for the semester.
- [00:58:02.480]Jaci Gustafson: So, we're not going to go into that too much today. We don't really have time. But
- [00:58:07.330]Jaci Gustafson: this space is for your essay. There are
- [00:58:11.100]Jaci Gustafson: 63? 53.
- [00:58:13.110]Jaci Gustafson: 5,300 characters for your essay.
- [00:58:16.600]Jaci Gustafson: Spaces and enters count as one character.
- [00:58:19.660]Jaci Gustafson: Be mindful of that.
- [00:58:21.560]Jaci Gustafson: You don't want to copy and paste your essay from Word into here or from Google Doc into here, because if that has any formatting, it'll be messed up in here, so you'll need to retype it. But use word or Google docs for creating it, spell checking it, editing it.
- [00:58:41.600]Jaci Gustafson: Then retype it in here. They have some prompts here. One thing that they include that I disagree with. There's 2 in additions, and the first one's totally fine, but commentary on significant fluctuations in your academic record which are not explained elsewhere in your application.
- [00:59:01.670]Jaci Gustafson: I disagree with that one because your personal statement is really supposed to be about why you're going to be a doctor, why you want to be there, and how you got there. If your grades are not a significant
- [00:59:14.490]Jaci Gustafson: contributor to your motivation to being a doctor. Then don't talk about them in an essay. That's about why you want to be a doctor. The better way to the better place to talk about that is, in any of your interviews.
- [00:59:25.980]Jaci Gustafson: And so it's best to do that. And you guys can practice in mock interviews. We have those coming up in August, so we can help you and coach you on that. But that's the one I disagree about that they have in there. But
- [00:59:38.100]Jaci Gustafson: hopefully, you're working on your essay. We provide essay review assistance in the Explore Center. So we're happy to help you
- [00:59:44.760]Jaci Gustafson: figure out what to do there.
- [00:59:47.420]Jaci Gustafson: If is anyone here applying to MD/PhD?
- [00:59:51.410]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, I'll skip that slide.
- [00:59:54.000]Jaci Gustafson: Your standardized tests. Your MCAT scores will automatically feed over to this application once they're available. So that's nice. You don't have to request that that happen. You don't have to mark any boxes. It'll just automatically be there. So that's nice. You should indicate. If you have any future MCAT dates. So, if you sign up for a second MCAT, and you know that date before you submit your application. You'd want to put that date in here.
- [01:00:19.600]Jaci Gustafson: There's also a new standardized test called the Preview Exam. There's only a handful of schools that require it. It's not very many, and really not very many around here, if you're looking locally, but there is a list of which schools require preview. There's also a list in the application itself.
- [01:00:38.100]Jaci Gustafson: And just for those of you who do take the Preview.
- [01:00:42.500]Jaci Gustafson: The schools that don't require Preview will not be able to see your Preview score, so you don't have to worry about anyone else kind of snooping in your score. It will only be the schools that require it.
- [01:00:56.010]Jaci Gustafson: Okay, letters of recommendation. Letters of evaluation is how they term it.
- [01:01:01.790]Jaci Gustafson: Here's the process that these go through. So,
- [01:01:05.325]Jaci Gustafson: your job is to first ask people
- [01:01:08.870]Jaci Gustafson: "Can you write me a letter?" And you know, secure some people to write that. Who you have do that is based on the schools that you're applying to. So that's where the MSAR, the MSAR database comes into handy, or the school websites. Different schools have different preferences on who writes these? But most of the time you're going to need at least 2 professors and a couple of other people.
- [01:01:32.212]Jaci Gustafson: But look at your medical schools and make sure you know what you need. The process they go through is you enter their name into AMCAST. You enter their name into AMCAST and then you can print a letter request form, and the person writing the letter actually needs that because it has those very specific numbers, it has your AMCAST ID, and then your letter ID, for that particular letter
- [01:01:56.418]Jaci Gustafson: and they need those to be able to submit them through AMCAST. There's another service you can use called Interfolio. I don't deal with it a lot, so I'm not going to go into it that much. I think the AMCAST letter writer
- [01:02:08.187]Jaci Gustafson: service is great, but Interfolio might be helpful to you if you're also applying to Texas schools, or if you're also applying to DO schools, because then you can collect your letters in
- [01:02:20.660]Jaci Gustafson: Interfolio rather than just in one of the
- [01:02:23.700]Jaci Gustafson: So, your letter writers only have to send things to Interfolio and not to 3 separate
- [01:02:28.950]Jaci Gustafson: application services. It's convenience for your letter writers. But most students end up using just having them sent directly to AMCAST and not using Interfolio. Yeah.
- [01:02:48.010]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] No.
- [01:02:48.970]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] UNL doesn't provide one. So, you can't.
- [01:02:51.090]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] You have to submit whatever option they give you other than that.
- [01:02:55.310]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah. And it's usually two professors or so, something like that.
- [01:02:59.340]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [01:03:03.470]Jaci Gustafson: This is just how many letters they receive during different times of the year. I'm not sure how helpful that is.
- [01:03:09.752]Jaci Gustafson: These are some resources you can send to your letter writers, if you haven't asked already. I recommend that every student send your resume.
- [01:03:19.420]Jaci Gustafson: And these letter writer guidelines cause they're super helpful for your writers to focus on the right things to write about. And then a draft of your personal statement, and this can be very rough. It could be very short. Anything that explains what you're doing and why that just helps like your professors who know you from
- [01:03:39.210]Jaci Gustafson: biology class, but don't know maybe your professional interests, or
- [01:03:45.710]Jaci Gustafson: a little bit more about you. So these are the 3 things I submit. I suggest you then send
- [01:03:54.270]Jaci Gustafson: One of the last things you'll do is agree to this certification statement, which certifies that I did everything is accurate, it's true, I wrote everything myself. You pay a processing fee
- [01:04:06.029]Jaci Gustafson: and once they get all your transcripts, they'll take
- [01:04:09.940]Jaci Gustafson: the transcripts and your application, and they'll start that 4 to 8 week verification process.
- [01:04:18.610]Jaci Gustafson: This.
- [01:04:19.780]Jaci Gustafson: I don't know how helpful this graph is. That 30 is 30 business days. The Peak was in July, and it was taking 30 business days, which is
- [01:04:30.660]Jaci Gustafson: 6 weeks, I believe, to process.
- [01:04:33.370]Jaci Gustafson: So, I don't know why, sometimes they're saying, it takes 8 weeks. I suppose they want people to plan ahead. But I think 30 business days is 6 weeks unless my math is really
- [01:04:43.020]Jaci Gustafson: wrong.
- [01:04:44.890]Jaci Gustafson: Yeah, 6 weeks.
- [01:04:48.880]Jaci Gustafson: There are criminal background checks after that. And there are some activities and actions that you'll get emails about doing after you submit your application. Those won't happen right away. The first things you'll get back is secondary applications directly from schools. But then in the spring you'll have to fill out this like, choose my medical school saying, and AMCAST will prompt you to do that at the right times.
- [01:05:16.780]Jaci Gustafson: So what can you do after you submit? These are the things you can change. And they're really basic information. So you can't, you know, add any work activities? You you can't change your essay.
- [01:05:30.700]Jaci Gustafson: But you can add some of the main things that people do, add more letters of evaluation. So, if one of your writers just doesn't come through, and you need to add someone else. That's easy to add afterwards. You can add a planned MCAT if you submit your application and then decide to retake the MCAT. You can add more schools.
- [01:05:51.140]Jaci Gustafson: And you can release the application to your pre-health advisor. To me. So those are the main ones that people do the letters. Another MCAT, more medical schools or release. And so,
- [01:06:03.450]Jaci Gustafson: But with work activities and academics.
- [01:06:07.920]Jaci Gustafson: Some of your schools will ask you to provide like a Mid-year update, because they might still be in their process of making decisions. So, they might ask you for your fall grades, your fall transcript. Or they might ask you, for
- [01:06:20.650]Jaci Gustafson: you know, to provide any updates from your work activities. Maybe in the fall you earn a really cool award that you just didn't know about. When you submitted your application. You should contact your schools and try to provide that for them individually to the school.
- [01:06:37.249]Jaci Gustafson: You won't be able to do that on the AMCAST anymore.
- [01:06:44.090]Jaci Gustafson: So the last thing I wanted to go over was the fee assistance program. This is a great way to get most of your application paid for.
- [01:06:53.200]Jaci Gustafson: It's best. If you were to apply for this before you even registered for the MCAT, which I think that ship has probably sailed for most people in this room. But, it can give you
- [01:07:04.900]Jaci Gustafson: a free application, so your AMCAST would be free, and up to 20 schools would be free. So that's 46 times 20 plus 175, and I don't know what that would be in my head, but somewhere around, like $1,000, $2,000, maybe, so that can be really nice.
- [01:07:20.642]Jaci Gustafson: So, if you feel like you want to apply for that, I have the link there, and you can go see what the requirements are. And it does take about 2 to 3 weeks processing for you to hear back. So doing it sooner rather than later is best, because
- [01:07:34.610]Jaci Gustafson: you don't want to wait till June to do it, because then it delays your ability to like even hit the submit button.
- [01:07:41.040]Jaci Gustafson: Once you submit, you're going to pay the regular fee, no matter what. It's not retroactive. So, you'd want to have that approved before you submit your application and pay the fee.
- [01:07:51.470]Jaci Gustafson: But it's a great program, and you could get some benefits from it.
- [01:07:55.330]Jaci Gustafson: There's more information on that. And who to call for questions about the assistance.
- [01:08:01.976]Jaci Gustafson: There is a newsletter that I do think is really helpful when you're in this process
- [01:08:06.660]Jaci Gustafson: to sign up for, the navigator. It'll give you updates on what's happening with AMCAST right? Now what's happening with the MCAT right now. I get it. I find interesting things and helpful things all the time in there.
- [01:08:19.460]Jaci Gustafson: I think it's helpful to students.
- [01:08:21.930]Jaci Gustafson: There's also some student stories.
- [01:08:24.529]Jaci Gustafson: How did I apply? What was
- [01:08:27.779]Jaci Gustafson: like,
- [01:08:29.080]Jaci Gustafson: What were some of the strategies I made for picking schools and things like that that, I think are helpful as well.
- [01:08:35.120]Jaci Gustafson: That's it.
- [01:08:36.760]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] What questions do you guys have? Yes.
- [01:08:51.520]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] That's a great question. Yes, I'm glad you asked that. So, the question is.
- [01:08:54.649]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] "When one school wants 3 letters, and another school wants like 5 letters.
- [01:08:59.130]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] How do you know which ones are going to go where and when they're going to get sent?"
- [01:09:05.220]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] So how it works is you get 10 letter
- [01:09:08.886]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] mailboxes. So, one letter per mailbox and so let's say
- [01:09:14.770]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] the school that wanted 3 and the school that wanted 5, 2 of them overlap. Let's say
- [01:09:18.990]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] So, you can send
- [01:09:21.770]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] the one unique letter and the 2 common letters to the first school. And then you can just send the 2 common letters, plus 3 others, to the second school, you actually just get to assign those individually in your application.
- [01:09:32.785]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] And then that tells AMCAST what to do with your letters once they're all in. I think they send them as they come in, so they'll send the letter that's in. If it's in, they'll send it. Yeah.
- [01:09:44.970]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Good question. I'm glad you asked that. I should have had more slides on the letters, because I think that'd have been helpful.
- [01:09:51.260]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci asking student questions] Yeah. Other
- [01:09:53.630]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci asking student questions] questions today.
- [01:09:56.720]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci asking student questions] Yes. Oh, yeah.
- [01:10:02.150]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions]
- [01:10:05.430]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, great, great. So, let's go back to those categories.
- [01:10:13.060]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] So, his question is, where would you put research that you've worked on, or papers that you're working on right now. That might be published in the future. Yeah.
- [01:10:19.830]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] So that would be under your.
- [01:10:23.300]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] It could be under research or presentations, posters, or publications. It could be one of any one of those things depending on what it was. Whatever is done, put as a completed experience. If it's something like you're writing something with a professor, and you're not sure it's going to get published yet. Right? You don't know that for sure. You might put that as an anticipated experience and
- [01:10:49.810]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] or you could put it as an experience with some completed hours, because you've done some work on it already, and then anticipated. So, you could do, it's a publication
- [01:10:59.130]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] you've done 30 completed hours.
- [01:11:02.290]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] You've got 50 more to go, and then in your description just be really honest about like where you're at in the process of publication, just so that they know you're working on it. And
- [01:11:13.340]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] whether, like what's your likelihood of.
- [01:11:16.060]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] We think it's going to get published. But obviously we don't know yet. Just be very descriptive and honest in that description. Yeah.
- [01:11:25.670]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yes, yep!
- [01:11:27.280]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yep, I would put thesis in there. And I think that would be
- [01:11:32.930]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] probably research or
- [01:11:36.940]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] publication. Are you going to get it published? Do you think?
- [01:11:39.760]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Okay.
- [01:11:40.840]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] so probably under either research or
- [01:11:46.210]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, that's the only one. I think it would go under.
- [01:11:49.430]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, Isabel you had a question.
- [01:11:52.520]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] You forgot it? Okay.
- [01:11:54.990]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Well, if you remember it.
- [01:11:57.240]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah.
- [01:12:04.550]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Oh, yeah. "When should you ask your letter writers to have everything submitted?" That basically depends on "When do you want to hit the submit button yourself?"
- [01:12:12.820]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] So, if you have a goal to submit by July 15th. I'm just picking that out of thin air.
- [01:12:19.230]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Then you probably want to say.
- [01:12:21.410]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Hey, letter writers, can you have that done by? There's a holiday in there. So like maybe July
- [01:12:26.950]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] 10th, or something like that.
- [01:12:28.926]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Give them a few days ahead of time before you really want to submit it, and then, if you don't see it in there
- [01:12:35.940]Jaci Gustafson: follow up with them around that time. And just remind them, yeah.
- [01:12:45.400]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] No, if they have the numbers right It'll go right there. I mean, it might be a day. There might be a day-delay, but not like weeks. No, that's a good question. Yeah, there's no processing time for when they submit the letter to when it's applied to your application, unless it's like, maybe an overnight kind of thing.
- [01:13:01.240]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [01:13:02.810]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yes.
- [01:13:30.560]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yes, great question. Great question. Yes. So, the question is "If I submit the application, do I need to submit it 6 to 8 weeks ahead of the deadline to meet the deadline?" is your question. The answer that is, no. You've met the deadline by so by hitting the submit button by 11:59 PM on the deadline date.
- [01:13:51.230]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, or the night before.
- [01:13:53.360]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] You should probably check on that. But no, yeah, if you submit it. July 1st, and the deadline is August 1st, you're like a month early.
- [01:14:02.440]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, you could have submitted it. August 1st.
- [01:14:05.890]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [01:14:06.960]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] The reasons we tell people to apply in the summer
- [01:14:12.550]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] is because your schools aren't going to get your application until like August or September.
- [01:14:18.790]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] If you submit in June, maybe they'll get it in the summer sometime. But you've hit the deadline. You've met the deadline by the time you hit the submit button.
- [01:14:27.540]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [01:14:31.090]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Great question. Was there another question
- [01:14:34.400]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] people have?
- [01:14:39.460]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah? Well.
- [01:14:42.860]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yes.
- [01:14:46.300]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Great.
- [01:14:47.290]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Great question. That's a judgment call. So, the question was "If I've served, serve 2 different roles for the same organization which could be the same experience. Do I put them under the same activity or not?"
- [01:14:57.780]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] That's a judgment call for you. So, what I would say is.
- [01:15:02.490]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] If you did cool things with both of them, and you have enough to talk about them where they could stand alone.
- [01:15:10.150]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] And you have enough space in the 15. It's not crowding out other important things. Then have them stand alone on their own. But if you're hurting for space in your 15 activities.
- [01:15:20.180]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] you might want to try to combine them.
- [01:15:22.520]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah. Good question.
- [01:15:24.930]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yep.
- [01:15:35.260]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Great question. That's such a good question. Okay? So, the question is, "If I started working as a CNA in high school, and I've been doing hours since then I'm still doing hours. When do I start counting my hours?"
- [01:15:46.831]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] They don't want anything before college.
- [01:15:49.500]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] So start at freshman year.
- [01:15:51.610]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah. Great question.
- [01:15:55.870]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yes.
- [01:15:58.760]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] I would say, fall semester of freshman year. Yeah, start fall semester of freshman year with your hours for anything.
- [01:16:12.960]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Great questions. You're all really great.
- [01:16:15.260]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Anyone have other things they're hoping to ask today.
- [01:16:18.970]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [01:16:25.480]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah.
- [01:16:28.450]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yes, yes, we are. That's my last slide here.
- [01:16:32.745]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci showing students slides]
- [01:16:34.010]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci showing students slides] Went all the way back, didn't we?
- [01:16:36.750]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci looking showing students Explore Center Advisors] So yeah, our all of our advisors are listed on this page, and our scheduling links are at the bottom. So any academic advisor and our career advisor Ren, who's down here at the bottom.
- [01:16:50.100]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci providing students with how Explore Center Advisors can help with AMCAST] can answer any questions about AMCAST. We do have 2 people out on maternity leave. So, our slots are going to be a little bit more limited, but you'll just have to probably click through more people to find an opening. The one thing to know is, if you do want an essay review appointment.
- [01:17:11.426]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci providing appointment scheduling details] You can make the appointment. But we need the draft a week ahead of time, just because we have to fit in actually reading it between our other student appointments. But for just questions about the application, just set it up whenever you find an opening. Yeah.
- [01:17:26.820]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci providing appointment scheduling details] Great question. Yeah. Cause you will have questions. You will definitely have questions.
- [01:17:31.870]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] I have students who work on it and then
- [01:17:34.260]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci expressing enthusiasm about student participation] make a whole big, long list of all the questions they had while they were working on it, and then just come in and we go through it like that. I love that because we're just. We're using the best. We're making the best use of that time, that 30 min time that we have.
- [01:17:47.510]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] Yeah, cool
- [01:17:49.130]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci answering student questions] other questions?
- [01:17:54.650]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci ending presentation] Alright!
- [01:17:56.320]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci ending presentation] Cool.
- [01:17:57.720]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci ending presentation] Well, thanks for coming today. And
- [01:18:00.730]Jaci Gustafson: [Jaci ending presentation] we're happy to help you this summer.
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