They say they’ll email you the supplemental after you apply, but I applied 5 days ago and have seen nothing. I have tried calling their office with no luck either.
I memorized every single word in vocab mountain, yet when I took the actual GRE there were many words I had never even seen before. Not to mention that the wording on the text completion questions was infinitely harder to understand than the practice problems he gives you. On my practice tests I was averaging around 160 verbal but I ended up getting a 152 on the real thing.
I have filled out multiple supplemental apps where they ask specifically about my experiences with underserved communities and about if I want to work in these rural/underserved communities in the future. Obviously the real answer is a big fat NO. No one in their right mind wants to live in rural Nebraska over a nice suburb in Texas/California/Utah/etc, but you can’t say that. You have to pretend like you have a passion for helping the rural poverty stricken folks or you get auto rejected. In reality the professors probably don’t even care either so it really makes no sense.
So I originally got a LOR from a professor, supervisor, and PA I had shadowed frequently thinking these three would fulfill the requirements for all my schools. Then I noticed that a school I was applying to did not count shadowing LORs and instead wanted someone who could testify about your character, so I asked somebody who oversaw me during a 2 year mission I went on. Well now I’m noticing that two other schools I’m applying to require a LOR from a healthcare professional who you’ve worked with meaning I’d have to get another LOR from a RN I work with.
Would schools judge me for having 5 LOR? I noticed on one schools website they recommend not submitting 5 so I’m curious if I’d be better off just staying at 4 and not applying to these 2 schools. The schools are Duke and Yale so it’s unlikely I’d get in anyway but I would absolutely love to go there if I did.