 You have to be that crazy ex-girlfriend. Open it. No! Stocking Casper. Making sure that they're receiving all of your material. What's up, you guys? It's Adana. I am back with another video for you guys. So I know that some of you have already gotten into the Casper Spring. Casper has been open since April. But some of you are gearing up for the new Casper to open up for this upcoming 20, what are we gonna be in 2018, 2019 cycle? And that will be opening up in April. This coming April, April 28th. What are we in? Oh my gosh, we're in 2017. So yeah, April 2018. So I decided that I would make a video about Casper for you guys. I know I like, I stocked Casper. I called Casper all the time just to make sure that I was doing everything correctly. Make sure that my stuff was in there on time. And that's really like the same thing you have to do. You have to be that crazy ex-girlfriend. Open it! No! Stocking Casper, making sure that they're receiving all of your material because you do not want to verify your Casper application if you still have things outstanding. Why? Because it won't make it into your application. No one will be able to see it. So they're not gonna be able to see what a beautiful, wonderful person you are. How many extremely amazing volunteer hours that you have. You may have still had, I don't know, 400 pending and then they only see the 30 that you reported and got verified by Casper. So that's what this video is gonna be about. I'm gonna take you guys on over to the computer. We're gonna create like a fake Casper account. It is time consuming, so you do need to have the time available and ready to do it. Cause it could be a little bit tedious, especially when you have to enter in all of your coursework. So that is something that you'll definitely have to take some time to do, enter in all of your coursework. You're not gonna be able to see your science GPA while you're doing that. You only see your science GPA as calculated by Casper once your application has been verified. So it's important for you to already know what your Casper GPA is. And I'll send you, take you to a website that I use quite often when I was applying to PA school and then I still use now just to calculate my GPA. So I know that like exactly where I'm at or how different grades will affect my GPA. So let's do it. Let's go right now. Okay, y'all. So here we are, we are at Casper's website. I just literally Googled this and I Googled Casper and Casper came up. So I made this fake sign in and I'm going to sign in. You would need to create an account but I already did so. Up here you can see all of your profile information. So all of your personal information and if you have frequently asked questions or if you have a question about the application that you don't necessarily know about, you can go right up here to the top upper right hand corner and check out your profile and go to your instructions. So when it has this little bell here, that means there's a notification. So my notification is, hey, welcome to Casper because I just recently created this. So that is that my notification button is now off and so now I can go to my application. So here in the application, you'll have kind of the different notifications right here on the left screen as well. And then you can go right here to personal information. This is where you enter all of your biographical information, contact information, citizenship, everything. So this is pretty self-explanatory, you guys. I know that there is something more specific. Let me see if I can find it for you. I don't think I see it. But there is a portion in here where it asks you questions specifically about did your family receive Medicaid or different things like that if you were in like an environmentally underserved area. Basically is what it's trying to figure out but that will all be in this section. To navigate back to the dashboard, you just go to my application and then the dashboard pops up. I already added some programs here because I stated that I was trying to apply for schools for a start date of next year fall. So it has all of the schools that don't, that still are accepting applications. So you're gonna see a lot of March dates, March 1st, and then January dates. January 15th is usually that date that you would need to get your CASPA application in by. So that CASPA application needs to be verified and sent off by that date. With me completing the application at this moment which is 1224, I don't believe that it would be verified. CASPA says that it takes anywhere from four to six weeks to get your application verified. So even if I were to have everything done for weeks, I'm not really sure would hit that January 15th mark but for the March 1st mark it would. So this is where you go to add it. I can literally just add Clarkson University College of St. Mary and now you'll see where I wanna submit my application, it tells me all of my application fees. The first application is always $177, I believe it is. Let me just go ahead and delete some things and it shows you as it continues to drop from the $51 because each subsequent application after the first is $51. So I can sort it by the deadline or alphabetically, it's up to you to choose how you want to sort your applications out. Furthermore, depending on where you're at within your application for each school, how much information you still may need, the line will be longer or shorter, this line of completion. So Methodist University, the line is a little bit longer than Turo College because hey, I don't necessarily have any additional things that I need to add for Methodist University and you can see that here. So I'm gonna go down to the program materials, that's where you see all the schools and you see how Methodist University has to check, that means that I'm pretty much done with that. Once you've completed each school you'll get a check and the only reason I'm done with this is because it does not have an extra, anything extra for me to do. Unlike Johnson and Wales where it has the prerequisite coursework that I have to add. I can only add this if I add in my transcript and you guys I'm not making up some fake transcript to add stuff in because the transcript is absolutely a killer. It's so, so tedious. Here it is, you can, I made some fake high schools and colleges that was attended and here's the transcript screen. So you can add in your transcript, I made up a transcript, I made up a university that I went to but I did not necessarily want to add the transcript in because I would've had to do that piece by piece. But we can just go in to see how you would review the transcript. So here is Alabama State, that's where I said I went. Did I repeat any classes, no? No, okay, so we're just going through this. The transcript entry was done for that, right? I made up anatomy and physiology to put that on there so my transcript review is finished. I had the colleges that I attended here. You can download the transcript request form. Once you download this form, this is what you would send to or bring to your school. It has the instructions right here on every single thing that the registrar needs to do and you need to make sure that CASPA has received all of your material before you submit it. So the registrar has to do this, I'm gonna click out of that. Let me show you guys where you can go to make sure that they have received everything. It's up here, check status. You have transcripts, zero out of one have arrived. So unless you see one out of one or two out of two, do not submit this application because your GPA will not be calculated. I repeat, it will not be calculated by CASPA. So therefore, for some programs, you might not be meeting the actual GPA requirement. Okay, so let's go down to the supporting information. This is where you would get your evaluations, your send your evaluation requests. So I made up a fake evaluation request sent to Ms. Joan Johnson. When I went in and I looked at how the evaluations were set up, they're literally, they ask you how do they know, how does the evaluator know you? Was it in a personal capacity or like in what capacity do they know you? How long have they known you? And then they have a bunch of like little, you know, disagree, agree, agree, can I recommend this applicant little bubbles that they have to fill in? And then there's a portion for them to actually upload the letter of recommendation. So I know some of you have asked me, can I write the letter of recommendation and then just have my evaluator sign it? Yes, you can. Obviously they will have to upload it to the CAS system so that CASPA can receive it, but that is obviously an option. So you can add in your experiences, any achievements that you have, your licenses, so your CNA, MA, EMT, MS license. This is where, this is the big daddy. Your personal statement, you are going to copy and paste it, only 5,000 characters. That's why I always say keep it about one page, single space. And upload it right in here and make sure that it's bombed because I feel like this is what helps you get into PA school. You're gonna have to complete this whole release form to, for CASPA and accept everything. And then you can also put in memberships if you have any memberships. I'm gonna go back to the dashboard right here and so I have my academic history completed so that also shows you where you're at with respect to the different sections that you're in. Here, so, excuse me you guys. All right, so we have that. I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna X out because you can always X out of that particular dashboard. I've already showed you the program materials section and let me just go into another one to show you exactly because some of them have these extra questions, right? So you can always add, some of them require like maybe a CV or any healthcare hour, shadowing hours. That's what Turo requires. It will require you to put in your prerequisite. So since I verify my transcript, I can assign a course now for my anatomy and physiology. This is the one I'm gonna choose. I'm gonna save and exit. So now when you go down, there it is. So I have that checked off and this is what you'll have to do for each course in the prerequisite section. Then I can go over here to the questions because it asks like have you previously applied to this program though. So there are certain questions that you will have to answer. Behavioral health elective track. Let's just say sure. And then we'll save that and close it. So that question section is finished. This is partly done but not fully. So that's why I don't have it checked off. It's not checked off here as it is with Methodist University. So just be mindful of that. Make sure that all of your schools are checked off so you know that you have completed everything required for each school. Let's go back to the dashboard. I had gone into any supporting information. So we already saw all of this, your evaluations. I explained that to you guys. If you have any questions or anything like that, you can go there, they'll respond to you. They do respond to you fairly quickly. So I do suggest either emailing them or you can call them. There is a number that you can call but you will need your CASPA ID. So make sure that you have that handy wherever even if you're using it through email. All right, so that's pretty much it. I have everything here when I'm ready to submit. I would submit the application. I can look here to see how much progress I have in the actual programs. I do wanna just touch on this academic history one more time. So with respect to when you're talking about the colleges and you're adding in your transcripts and all that stuff. So let's say I had to add another college. Let's go with Alabama A&M, right? Let's go with Alabama A&M. I'm gonna just say no, I didn't receive a degree from them. I'll go with this and let's just say I attended there in the spring of this past year of 2015. And we'll say that I ended in May, right? 2015, where are you at? And say this college. So here we have it. I have a new college added. I can download the transcript form, request form again for Alabama A&M. When you are adding coursework, when you have to now go in and add coursework for the different college. So I'd have to do it for Alabama A&M. You go to transcript entry, I have to start that. So you have the option of paying $65 for them to enter every bit of coursework that you have or you can do it by yourself. It will do that for you. Since I've already said I'm going to do it by myself, I would literally have to add in everything, every semester piece by piece by myself which can get really, really tedious if you have gone to high school and you took AP classes and you went to your undergrad and then you went to a post back and then you also went to a master's degree. Just being able to having to put in all of that information is tedious. So for one to three transcripts, they will do that for you for $65. I don't remember the price for anything above three but the price increases for more than three transcripts. So that is something that you might want to actually look at and look into if you're interested in not having to do the transcript coursework and add in it piece by piece for yourself. But that will be in this section right here, the supporting information in academic history, more so the academic histories where you would put that information in. All right, but that is A, you guys. I mean, it's pretty simple, honestly, navigating through CAS, but they make it pretty simple in terms of how to get from point to point. The only thing is that it does take time to put in all of this information, so make sure that you do have time to do so with respect to giving yourself enough time, like a day or two to get all of your information and especially if you're doing the transcript by yourself. All right, you guys, so that was it. Hopefully this video made it a little bit less daunting for you guys, a little bit easier to understand what you need to do with respect to CASPA, how CASPA even looks. I suggest that you guys go and familiarize yourself with CASPA, especially if you're planning on applying anytime soon. Make sure you have the time ready, set aside and available to actually do CASPA. And I hope that this was very helpful and very beneficial to you. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you have any further questions, go ahead and leave it in the comment section below. And if you have anything specific for CASPA, I will leave the link to the CASPA website in this video and in the description box so that you can go there and you can ask them the questions that you have directly or just browse through their frequently asked questions. All right, if you haven't already done so, go ahead and subscribe and join me on Instagram at AdanaThePA. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.