I was accepted to Ross for January 2017 and was just recently offered a seat for September 2016. I have some concerns and would like to know if anyone else felt this way.... including current applicants as well as current students.
I have to say, when I interviewed, I was a little put off by the interviewer's demeanor. She was very pushy, like a salesperson. She asked me why I wasn't applying for the May class, and I answered honestly, I was working on a prerequisite class for another school where I'd been wait-listed. She told me, "A U.S. school? With your GPA, do you really think that's realistic?" Well, I'm on the wait-list so.... yes? If my GPA was a deal-breaker would I even have been offered an interview, much less wait-listed? Wouldn't I have just been rejected? Basically she was trying to make me feel bad and bully me into choosing Ross. At the end of it I pretty much decided I didn't want to go there, even if it was the only school I got into.
Well, fast forward about a month, I get my Ross acceptance and all the bad feelings I had about it are out the window. I got into VET SCHOOL! I have a chance to be a veterinarian! This is what I've always wanted! Right? Even if it wasn't my top choice school, isn't the degree (and the career) more important than what school you went to? I decided it was, and started making plans to go to Ross, and feeling excited about it.
So then I get the offer to start in September. I had actually already told my admissions coordinator to take me off the wait-list for September (I'm so sick of wait-lists, I just want to have a concrete start date that I can work toward) so I wasn't really sure why I was even offered the September seat. I had also decided to apply for some internships this fall, since the inability to do summer internships was one of the concerns I had about Ross (one of the con's I've seen listed in this forum). But, I don't know if I'll be accepted for the internships, and if they're offering me to start earlier I should at least consider it, so I emailed my admissions coordinator with some questions. He responded with some vague, semi-helpful answers.
Literally one hour later he called me asking if I was going to accept the September offer. This was the first time I'd spoken to him over the phone, but he was the same as my interviewer: pushy, like a salesperson, interrupting me, etc. He asked me why wouldn't I want to start in September so I told him about the internship I was applying for. Any normal school would be happy for their students to gain more experience, right? He scoffed at me, again trying to make me feel bad, "An internship?! With all the experience you'll be getting in school? Why would you do that?"
So, again I'm very put off, to the point where I'm actually considering just re-applying to US schools for next year.
And I'm sorry if this post doesn't belong here but it was the most relevant thread I could find, and I didn't want to get yelled at for starting a new thread. I don't want to bring anyone down who's excited about going to Ross, but I would like to know if any of you had a similar experience, and I feel like you deserve to know about mine. It certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth about the school.
