North American Language and Culture Assistants 2010-2011

[hurrikaane]

To question two, last year people were notified 4-6 weeks after the close of the application period.  So yes, mid-late April

[ire]

Hey, i'm from BC too, from vancouver but i am stuyding in Ontario @ the moment.. where abouts in BC are you from? Glad to see other Canadians here as it seems like there are many more americans in the program

the youth mobility plan sounds like a good backup plan to get to spain. but yah finding your own/ good job would be much harder i think

Wow!! I am from Vancouver too...going to school at SFU.  For sure seems like there are more Americans than Canadians.  What regions did you pick? mine were Cataluna/Madrid/Navarra.  No clue on the last one LOL hoping to not really be placed there.

[oudy]

quick ? about the letter of recommendation. I graduated last year but I dislike most of my former professors. Is there any way I can use my former employer or the president of the cultural center at my school?

It says in the manual that I can use an employer if I've been out of school for 5 years but it hasn't been that long. I just want to limit my contact with my professors as much as possible. Any way around it or am I gonna have to bite the bullet and talk to them?

Thanks

[Clamatojuice]

I'm from Vancouver as well studying at UBC.  I hope i get in, I'm inscrita 1565.

My choices were Andalusia, Catalunia and I just left the third one blank.

Obviously nobody knows for sure, but how popular would you say the regions I chose are?
Is there any chance that I will get one or the other? PLEAAAAASE

[hurrikaane]

Sorry to say, but those regions are very popular.  My guesstimation, from reading a lot (!) of posts here and on Facebook, that Madrid is the most popular choice, followed by Andalusia, and then either Pais Vasco or Catalunya.

[ire]

I'm from Vancouver as well studying at UBC.  I hope i get in, I'm inscrita 1565.

My choices were Andalusia, Catalunia and I just left the third one blank.

Obviously nobody knows for sure, but how popular would you say the regions I chose are?
Is there any chance that I will get one or the other? PLEAAAAASE

hey!

maybe 2 vancouverites will end up in Catalunia!  apparently the wait list starts at around 1700 so hopefully your in!

[MattC]

Just wondering if anyone else who has been admitada has not been able to access thier application.  I checked last week and I had "admitada" status but signed in to profex again today and the screen was different and just said that the application was open and processing.  Has anyone seen this?

[Clamatojuice]

Thanks for giving me the odds, no matter how bleak.
 
Ire, and whoever else is from Vancouver,I was wondering when filling out the VPD record check form, what did you put for name of agency and organization, and especially address and title of person in authority etc?

[zutalors]

Wow!! I am from Vancouver too...going to school at SFU.  For sure seems like there are more Americans than Canadians.  What regions did you pick? mine were Cataluna/Madrid/Navarra.  No clue on the last one LOL hoping to not really be placed there.

Thanks for giving me the odds, no matter how bleak.
 
Ire, and whoever else is from Vancouver,I was wondering when filling out the VPD record check form, what did you put for name of agency and organization, and especially address and title of person in authority etc?

so there's 3 of us from vancouver! it sucks that i am stuck in ontario while the olympics are happening.... 
my choices are Andalucía, Catabria and La rioja...

ire, i'm with you on the 3rd choice, i didn't know that much about mine, but just put it down as my 3rd choice.... but i inscita-ed pretty early so i think ill be able to get my first choice

clamatojuice, i think andalucía is pretty popular, but its the biggest region so there are the most places there probably. and for the police record thing, i put down the spanish govt/embassy of spain and then the contact info for Jorge luengo, the guy @ the embassy we send our stuff to.. hope that helps!

[ewlandon]

 hey guys. I just got all my papers in for 2010/2011. My first choice is Catalunya (I want to live in barcelona). My inscrita number was 795 does anyone have any idea of the likelyhood of getting catalunya with 795?   Im super excited and nervous. Also I am looking into ...purchasing a plane ticket soon since I would save a ton of money. Is it safe to assume that the orientation is going to be late september? I was thinking of getting a stop-over-flight (Stopping in Iceland on the way to berlin) early september. Then just figure out a cheap ryanair flight to Barcelona(if i get lucky) when I am in berlin.
another thing I am wondering about is whether I am going to be able to get the police report that I need for the visa without flying thousands of miles to one of the places I lived a few years ago?  In the past 5 years I have lived in London, LA, Portland (oregon) and Eugene oregon,  London was just 3 months is that long enough that I need a report?  Is this going to cause a problem?


thanks for the help

[knina23]

Just wondering if anyone else who has been admitada has not been able to access thier application.  I checked last week and I had "admitada" status but signed in to profex again today and the screen was different and just said that the application was open and processing.  Has anyone seen this?

Hey I was inscrita over a week ago and sent in my papers last week to the Junta de Andalucia. I saw the same message on my profex that the application was open and processing ... I wouldnt worry about it.

[kborghi]

hey guys. I just got all my papers in for 2010/2011. My first choice is Catalunya (I want to live in barcelona). My inscrita number was 795 does anyone have any idea of the likelyhood of getting catalunya with 795?   Im super excited and nervous. Also I am looking into ...purchasing a plane ticket soon since I would save a ton of money. Is it safe to assume that the orientation is going to be late september? I was thinking of getting a stop-over-flight (Stopping in Iceland on the way to berlin) early september. Then just figure out a cheap ryanair flight to Barcelona(if i get lucky) when I am in berlin.
another thing I am wondering about is whether I am going to be able to get the police report that I need for the visa without flying thousands of miles to one of the places I lived a few years ago?  In the past 5 years I have lived in London, LA, Portland (oregon) and Eugene oregon,  London was just 3 months is that long enough that I need a report?  Is this going to cause a problem?


thanks for the help

ewlandon--
I'm pretty sure for the police report it has to be somewhere that you've lived for 6 months or more..I would definitely e-mail someone to see if you can get it for somewhere you've only lived for three months before you turn it in to the embassy or anything like that.

[dwhiteside]

Just wondering if anyone else who has been admitada has not been able to access thier application.  I checked last week and I had "admitada" status but signed in to profex again today and the screen was different and just said that the application was open and processing.  Has anyone seen this?

I'm having the same screen pop-up when I access my already 'admitida' application. I'm hoping its just site maintenance or they are updating profiles and/or applications and its nothing we have to be concerned about.

[ire]

Thanks for giving me the odds, no matter how bleak.
 
Ire, and whoever else is from Vancouver,I was wondering when filling out the VPD record check form, what did you put for name of agency and organization, and especially address and title of person in authority etc?

I was going to volunteer for an organization...but schedules didnt work out so I wrote that organization and I am using that one as my record check...go with a volunteer organization so you only get charged $25 instead of $65! that is what the lady told me when i went that it cost...she was really rude though, cause I tried to explain that it was semi volunteer, she had no patience.

[powerss]

Does anyone have an idea of how many people were accepted/taught in the program last year? Also does anyone remember the available number of positions they said last year? This year the website said over 1200 positions were available. How about a guess of how many they would accept this year?

I was really busy with school, so I did not submit my online application until the beginning of Feb. I didn't realize the online application portion was so much more important that the hard documents. I should have checked this forum more frequently. My number is 1342, so I have my fingers crossed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Adimitada merely means that all the paperwork has been received and processed. It does not mean you are actually in the program yet. Ajudicada means a regional placement has been assigned. The program manual explains all of this.

I thought I read somewhere that you weren't supposed to submit the documents online. It would not make sense, since you would be ruining the official transcript and recommendation.