Any One Else Feel This Way?

[Dying2beDDS]

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Do you feel like this process is the worst thing you've ever been through in your life? Waiting around for an acceptance for me is excrutiating! I am incredibly impatient, so this has just been sooo hard. I check my email 10 times a day, check my spam, check AADSAS constantly, run to the mailbox. And everytime I open up my mailbox to find nothing it feels like getting dropkicked in the stomach. My mood instantly turns sour and I feel empty. It's so embarrasing when people ask me everyday if there's been any news and I have to let them down each time. This is so pathetic. I'm normally such a happy, upbeat, positive, hopeful girl, and this process has changed me and my outlook. I've even had friends point out the change in me and it kills me to hear that. Now I feel bitter, sarcastic, angry, and desparate! I keep this all bottled up inside b/c everyone is so sick of hearing about it, so I just burst into tears at the most random times.
Has this happened to anyone else? People on this forum always say, just reapply; it'll be OK, it's no big deal. But it is a big deal! It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after time, and to watch your dreams slip from your fingertips.
To those of you who have been accepted, please take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief once again and realize how great you have it! Don't ever take it for granted!
Thanks for letting me vent! Please share your thoughts, feelings, or similar experiences and how you make light of this awful situation.

 

[iviikoivi]

Yeah, the situation sucks especially for those that turned their applications in June/July, with decent stats, and still no acceptance.

Is there a reapplicant club somewhere that I can join?

 

[ddschris]

Do you feel like this process is the worst thing you've ever been through in your life? Waiting around for an acceptance for me is excrutiating! I am incredibly impatient, so this has just been sooo hard. I check my email 10 times a day, check my spam, check AADSAS constantly, run to the mailbox. And everytime I open up my mailbox to find nothing it feels like getting dropkicked in the stomach. My mood instantly turns sour and I feel empty. It's so embarrasing when people ask me everyday if there's been any news and I have to let them down each time. This is so pathetic. I'm normally such a happy, upbeat, positive, hopeful girl, and this process has changed me and my outlook. I've even had friends point out the change in me and it kills me to hear that. Now I feel bitter, sarcastic, angry, and desparate! I keep this all bottled up inside b/c everyone is so sick of hearing about it, so I just burst into tears at the most random times.
Has this happened to anyone else? People on this forum always say, just reapply; it'll be OK, it's no big deal. But it is a big deal! It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after time, and to watch your dreams slip from your fingertips.
To those of you who have been accepted, please take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief once again and realize how great you have it! Don't ever take it for granted!
Thanks for letting me vent! Please share your thoughts, feelings, or similar experiences and how you make light of this awful situation.

I totally feel you. Hopfully, our time will come sooner than later! 🙂

 

[Generallee]

Do you feel like this process is the worst thing you've ever been through in your life? Waiting around for an acceptance for me is excrutiating! I am incredibly impatient, so this has just been sooo hard. I check my email 10 times a day, check my spam, check AADSAS constantly, run to the mailbox. And everytime I open up my mailbox to find nothing it feels like getting dropkicked in the stomach. My mood instantly turns sour and I feel empty. It's so embarrasing when people ask me everyday if there's been any news and I have to let them down each time. This is so pathetic. I'm normally such a happy, upbeat, positive, hopeful girl, and this process has changed me and my outlook. I've even had friends point out the change in me and it kills me to hear that. Now I feel bitter, sarcastic, angry, and desparate! I keep this all bottled up inside b/c everyone is so sick of hearing about it, so I just burst into tears at the most random times.
Has this happened to anyone else? People on this forum always say, just reapply; it'll be OK, it's no big deal. But it is a big deal! It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after time, and to watch your dreams slip from your fingertips.
To those of you who have been accepted, please take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief once again and realize how great you have it! Don't ever take it for granted!
Thanks for letting me vent! Please share your thoughts, feelings, or similar experiences and how you make light of this awful situation.

Hey Dying2beDDS,

I understand what you're going through. What helps me stay positive is that I know I will be a dentist someday. It's just a matter of time. Time is the only thing I'm up against! I know being a dentist is the only career for me and I'll commit myself to whatever I have to do to increase my chances of getting into dental school. If I don't get in this year, I will work extra hard to get in next year. If that means retaking the DAT, so be it!

I know its hard to stay positive because I too am "dying2beDDS" and I haven't received an acceptance yet. But, stay positive and always hope for the best. Our time WILL come! 😀

Do you ever dream of an acceptance, only to wake up dissappointed? I just did the other day... and boy it hurt! 🙁

 

[utahdent123]

I have days where I am down, but for the most part I'm okay. I was talking to a Dentist who just retired. He had practiced dentistry for 37 years. He said to me, "Do you know what would have happened if I didn't get accepted the first year I applied?" I wasn't sure what to say..then he said, "I would have practiced dentistry for 36 years instead of 37". The moral of the story: it's not the end of the world and it's just a matter of time as others have stated. Hang in there and hopefully something good will come your way.

 

[JohnUNLV]

I can empathize. People asked me all the time hows school is going and if I had heard anything and it was agonizing to wait day after day and hear nothing. And when people ask me what I am going to do if I didn't get in, I wanted to smack them in the mouth because I wanted to stay positive and thinking like that would just be depressing. I hated to even think about what I would do, and you're right, I feel so thankful that I'm finally in and I am not taking it for granted, I know how hard it was and how much time and effort I put in.

If you want it bad enough, just keep trying to improve and you will get in.

 

[toothealer12]

Do you feel like this process is the worst thing you've ever been through in your life? Waiting around for an acceptance for me is excrutiating! I am incredibly impatient, so this has just been sooo hard. I check my email 10 times a day, check my spam, check AADSAS constantly, run to the mailbox. And everytime I open up my mailbox to find nothing it feels like getting dropkicked in the stomach. My mood instantly turns sour and I feel empty. It's so embarrasing when people ask me everyday if there's been any news and I have to let them down each time. This is so pathetic. I'm normally such a happy, upbeat, positive, hopeful girl, and this process has changed me and my outlook. I've even had friends point out the change in me and it kills me to hear that. Now I feel bitter, sarcastic, angry, and desparate! I keep this all bottled up inside b/c everyone is so sick of hearing about it, so I just burst into tears at the most random times.
Has this happened to anyone else? People on this forum always say, just reapply; it'll be OK, it's no big deal. But it is a big deal! It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after time, and to watch your dreams slip from your fingertips.
To those of you who have been accepted, please take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief once again and realize how great you have it! Don't ever take it for granted!
Thanks for letting me vent! Please share your thoughts, feelings, or similar experiences and how you make light of this awful situation.

Yea...I think you've hit it right on the dot! It never stops...if i'm near a computer i can't get anything done b/c i'm checking everything constantly......it goes in cycles! I get asked everyday if i've heard anything by friends, professors......it's so hard cuz you really do feel like crap! I can't imagine reapplying...i really can't. I hate thinking about it b/c it's only a couple months away! I wish the admissions committee would understand and respect more, how stressful long waiting periods are for us...!

 

[food4thots]

sdn amplifies it all!

 

[PDizzle]

sdn amplifies it all!

This is true. Sometimes I wish I never found SDN but after its all done and you do get into D-School, everything is worth it, including the torture SDN puts you through.

I know how all of you feel. In fact just today I was telling my GF that the application process was the longest and most constantly stressful thing I have ever done. (I've been around too and have done a lot - 35 years old) I look back at it and shudder at the notion of doing it all over again but if you are like me, then there is no other profession out there that you want to do. If you don't get in, suck it up and kick a$$ next cycle. You will be one of the few that gets an early X-mas present (Dec 1st).

I also agree that answering your friends/family's questions are the worst part. They have no idea how competitive it is nowadays. They mean well but it really sucks when they ask you all the time and you run out of things to say.

Good luck and hang in there!

 

[Dying2beDDS]

Thanks for your replies! It really means a lot. 🙂 You're all right. Feeling sorry for yourself won't get you in. I need to just mentally prepare myself for the next cycle.

This is true. Sometimes I wish I never found SDN but after its all done and you do get into D-School, everything is worth it, including the torture SDN puts you through.

I know how all of you feel. In fact just today I was telling my GF that the application process was the longest and most constantly stressful thing I have ever done. (I've been around too and have done a lot - 35 years old) I look back at it and shudder at the notion of doing it all over again but if you are like me, then there is no other profession out there that you want to do. If you don't get in, suck it up and kick a$$ next cycle. You will be one of the few that gets an early X-mas present (Dec 1st).

I also agree that answering your friends/family's questions are the worst part. They have no idea how competitive it is nowadays. They mean well but it really sucks when they ask you all the time and you run out of things to say.

Good luck and hang in there!

 

[786mine]

get a hobby, go out and do something with your life... distract your self from all this. that the best thing you can do. basically you need to realise that the ball is not in your court at the mean while.

 

[Comet208]

It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after

No. It should only make you stronger if you like dentistry badly enough. This process for those of us with less than perfect grades is for sure brutal but builds character. Be strong for it is all about survival of the fittest!

 

[paradigm2200]

Do you feel like this process is the worst thing you've ever been through in your life? Waiting around for an acceptance for me is excrutiating! I am incredibly impatient, so this has just been sooo hard. I check my email 10 times a day, check my spam, check AADSAS constantly, run to the mailbox. And everytime I open up my mailbox to find nothing it feels like getting dropkicked in the stomach. My mood instantly turns sour and I feel empty. It's so embarrasing when people ask me everyday if there's been any news and I have to let them down each time. This is so pathetic. I'm normally such a happy, upbeat, positive, hopeful girl, and this process has changed me and my outlook. I've even had friends point out the change in me and it kills me to hear that. Now I feel bitter, sarcastic, angry, and desparate! I keep this all bottled up inside b/c everyone is so sick of hearing about it, so I just burst into tears at the most random times.
Has this happened to anyone else? People on this forum always say, just reapply; it'll be OK, it's no big deal. But it is a big deal! It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after time, and to watch your dreams slip from your fingertips.
To those of you who have been accepted, please take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief once again and realize how great you have it! Don't ever take it for granted!
Thanks for letting me vent! Please share your thoughts, feelings, or similar experiences and how you make light of this awful situation.

DAMN STRAIGHT!!! My thoughts exactly...I wasnt this stressed out for Undergrad admissions but this is just killing me!

 

[hockeydentist]

No. It should only make you stronger if you like dentistry badly enough. This process for those of us with less than perfect grades is for sure brutal but builds character. Be strong for it is all about survival of the fittest!

I believe most of you are rookie applicants, where as comet and I are seasoned vets. start complaining when you gone through the process of applying more than a couple of times.

 

[addcav]

Do you feel like this process is the worst thing you've ever been through in your life? Waiting around for an acceptance for me is excrutiating! I am incredibly impatient, so this has just been sooo hard. I check my email 10 times a day, check my spam, check AADSAS constantly, run to the mailbox. And everytime I open up my mailbox to find nothing it feels like getting dropkicked in the stomach. My mood instantly turns sour and I feel empty. It's so embarrasing when people ask me everyday if there's been any news and I have to let them down each time. This is so pathetic. I'm normally such a happy, upbeat, positive, hopeful girl, and this process has changed me and my outlook. I've even had friends point out the change in me and it kills me to hear that. Now I feel bitter, sarcastic, angry, and desparate! I keep this all bottled up inside b/c everyone is so sick of hearing about it, so I just burst into tears at the most random times.
Has this happened to anyone else? People on this forum always say, just reapply; it'll be OK, it's no big deal. But it is a big deal! It kills your self- esteem to be rejected time after time, and to watch your dreams slip from your fingertips.
To those of you who have been accepted, please take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief once again and realize how great you have it! Don't ever take it for granted!
Thanks for letting me vent! Please share your thoughts, feelings, or similar experiences and how you make light of this awful situation.

I'm in the same boat with you!! Same feeling!!! 😡

 

[fightingspirit]

guys, i understand what you are going through. you need to understand that you cannot take all of this personnaly. if you did not get in, it is because you were deemed uncompetitive by the admissions committees. in this case, you need to step back a little, take a deep breath, snap out of the funk and re-evaluate your suitability for the profession and your stats. re-examine your DAT score and GPA. if one is borderline, then strengthen the other. i would not re-apply until i've mended the fixes in my application. some of you may have applied thinking to themselves "it's all good....my DAT is below average but if i apply to many schools, i gotta get in somewhere".....one needs to abandon tht attitude. apply only when you know you are competitive, that way you wont feel like you're begging the school. let them want you and dont be what they dont want!

here's another funny thing about the D-school application, which i think applys for law and med: DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE PUBLISHED STATS. for instance, say pitt's entering class average AA is 18. theoretically and satistically, you'd expect to see kids with 17s and 16s, and kids with 19s and 20s. so you take the DAT and get a 17. theoretically, you should get in if you apply to a few schools like pitt. GUESS WHAT? YOU WONT END UP GETTIN IN ANYWHERE. therefore, the best way to get into a particular school is to score at least one point higher than their class average. why is this the case? i dont know but here's a likely reason:

say pitt's average is 18. most likely, most the accepted kids have averages higher than 18, say 19 and 20, and a few 18. still pitt's average goes down to 18, which happens due to outliers (exceptional students, affirmative action, alumni son, legacy...etc). columbia's average is 21. but very few kids get in with a 21. most will have at least a 22 and a few special cases will have 20 or 19.

guys, improve your DATs and you GPAs and never re-apply if you know that you'd be rejected. don't strip yourselves of the little bit of self-esteem that is left in you.

 

[Lidopaine82]

i don't understand how you people can get sooo worked up like this. sure it is stressfull but c'mon. I had all the stress you guys did plus i had my medical unit in the national guard pressuring me to get in with the threat of going overseas if i didn't. You did what you could to make yourself competative. So once you submit your application, don't stress out over what is no longer in your control. everything works out the way it's supposed to. You people need to just chill.

 

[jr8047]

I think you have recieved some very good advice from reading the above posts, but I would like to add two comments.

1. Keep in mind that you are much more than just an acceptance/denied dental school applicant; I think we get in trouble when we measure our self worth based on someone elses critique.

2. Personally, I have more respect, as I'm sure many others do, for the individual who has enough heart and courage to keep after their dreams even when faced with adversity than for someone who has stellar stats and gets in everywhere the first time around.

Hockeydentist-I admire your persistance and tenacity. 👍

 

[toothealer12]

i don't understand how you people can get sooo worked up like this. sure it is stressfull but c'mon. I had all the stress you guys did plus i had my medical unit in the national guard pressuring me to get in with the threat of going overseas if i didn't. You did what you could to make yourself competative. So once you submit your application, don't stress out over what is no longer in your control. everything works out the way it's supposed to. You people need to just chill.

if you dont' understand it, then don't comment. some people including me handle stress in different ways. this person just wanted to see if any one was feeling the same way. its getting late in the process and im sure thats why a lot of us are stressed like that, just be damn glad you are already accepted!