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Hello all, I'm going to be applying for the coming 2015 cycle which opens up May 13, on my birthday!!! I'm very insecure about my stats and I'm hoping to work on them as I go through the application process. I will be graduating with my B.S. in Biology on May 5 and hopefully after this semester my GPA will be a 3.6+ (Taking 6 credits and I'm doing well now, with A's in all of them it'll probably get there) My current GPA is a 3.56 and I'm unsure of my science GPA but once I get that I'll provide it. I haven't taken my GRE and I am planning on taking it May 1, I'll be using this next month to study for it. I hardly have any extra curricular activity other than Approx. 400 hours at a SA vet and 5 measly hours at a horse rehabilitation ranch. I'll spare everyone the excuses and just let it be known I slacked hardcore and left my experience portion of my application for the last minute. I want to apply to the UF CVM asap and I have a little extra incentive, I'm a Florida native and would like to go to a school closest to home and my girlfriend of 5 years got accepted into their dental school and will start August of this year. I'd like to get into whatever school accepts me and I will be applying to other schools, however the school I most want to get into is UF. My plan is to submit my UF application first and continue updating them as I gain a lot more experience this summer. My only obligations this summer would be to working and volunteering whereas before I would convince myself there's no way I can volunteer, work and study and still have some free time. Little did I know over the course of 4 years that could have added up to a whole lot of hours. SO after this long winded introductory paragraph, I still have some questions. Should I apply later when my application could potentially look better and I gain more diverse experience? Should I postpone my GRE exam and instead study longer to ensure a higher score that would help my application stand out? Should I apply early and constantly update the schools I apply to? Should I consider Ross University and apply to UF as the school in which I spend my clinical years in? All in all I want to be a veterinarian, but I also want to be a veterinarian close to the girl of my dreams. However, my primary goal is to be a veterinarian and if UF doesn't accept me and another school does I'll be attending there. Thank you for any advice you can provide and I hope I didn't bore you!