Constant Worry

[lalzi22]

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Does anyone else not sleep at night because they are worried about being rejected everywhere? I just looked at the old acceptances list on SDN and peoples stats and hours that they left with their acceptances and I feel so panicky I'm def not gonna sleep tonight . Please tell me someone else feels like this and I will feel better.

Hope everyone else's spirits are better than mine!

 

[cowgirla]

Getting rejected isn't the end of the world...take a deep breath!
Believe me, been there, done that.
I was rejected from all my schools last year and from my "one" school the year before that (early admissions), as have many others on this board who are trying for the second or third or fourth time to get in.

We're all obsessed, but panicking won't make the schools work any faster.
For that matter, I check my email at midnight, and again at seven in the morning, even on weekends. Do I realize that these schools don't have these kind of hours? Yes. Does that make me stop checking? No.
My logic? Maybe my letter will get "delayed" in cyberspace and come when I'm least expecting it.

ETA: Find something to do to relax! Take a weekend, and just forget about all of it. I booked a hotel suite for the weekend with a friend...we're going to spend two days drinking wine and hot tubbing to just relax from all this vet school stress. I strongly recommend trying it!

 

[racccjlm]

I think it's important to remember that every case is different --- no one thing determines whether you are going to get in. I know people that have gotten into vet school with 3.2s and GREs below 1000 (they had a lot of animal experience). So don't sweat it!! 🙂 You'll be all right. I can't speak for anyone else, but I know I'm nervous.

 

[lalzi22]

I would KILL to take a weekend off. Unfortunately I have 3 tests this week, 2 quizzes and a 20 page review paper to write. Next weekend is my sorority formal though, so HOPEFULLY that will blow off some steam.

 

[OtakuVet]

I can only say dont do what I did. Im a neurotic mess at times. I suggest focusing on your classes and extra curriculars thats how I escaped this application mayhem. Really dont become a neurotic mess. Sleep.

 

[oilidigigoat]

I don't lose sleep. Mostly because I love sleep.

But I do worry about getting accepted. Its difficult to not know what your life will be like next year. I flip flop between fantasizing about getting in and how sad it will be if I get rejected. I get excited to hear of others getting interview invites....because that means we are getting closer.

But at this point there isn't much we can do to change our chances of getting an interview invite....so we just have to wait.

 

[BlacKAT33]

Does anyone else not sleep at night because they are worried about being rejected everywhere? I just looked at the old acceptances list on SDN and peoples stats and hours that they left with their acceptances and I feel so panicky I'm def not gonna sleep tonight . Please tell me someone else feels like this and I will feel better.

Hope everyone else's spirits are better than mine!

I have been losing sleep since I submitted my apps in Oct and it gets worse as we get closer to a time when we may possibly hear something. I have nightmares all the time about acceptances/vet school and related things. I try not to think about it and I'm doing other stuff (work/going out with friends) but it just doesnt help.
You're def not alone. I'm sure everyone who posted on the "extreme anxiety" thread a while ago also has the same worries as us. This is my first year applying so if I don't get in I hope I dont feel the same next year. I may not be able to handle it again. Oh well... good luck to all of us 😀

 

[Crazy Hippos]

Nope, I'm not losing sleep. I just have awful nightmares about being rejected. Hehe. 😴 Don't worry, it'll all be over soon enough. 🙂

 

[Bearby]

I've always had difficulty getting to sleep when I have a lot on my mind so this is nothing new, especially since finals are less than a month away. I'm not having a terrible time with it though because I know it's out of my hands until I'm either interviewed or rejected. If I get an interview I think I'll be more worried and sleep less because I know that how I perform could influence whether I get in or not. If I get rejected I'll stress over little things in my application and stats that probably didn't stack up. For now, I'm more obsessed with my Blackberry than anything else. I keep waiting for an e-mail.

Go get a massage, I really want one but can't afford one at this point. Good luck everyone

 

[August24]

I swear this whole vet school process is making me bipolar-one day, I'll wake up and be sure I'm not even getting an interview. The next, I'll be sure I'm going to XXXX school becuase my eLOR came from a graduate or my GRE is higher than their average or some other random reason. I can't sleep and check my email at 11 pm on a friday night to see if I got anything-obviously this is NOT when letters come out. I just check SDN all the time...I know that I haven't been accepted or declined yet, and worrying does NOTHING to help at all, but I can't help it. But yes this is constantly on my mind no matter how much I try to push it out. These next few months will be very hard.

 

[luplodw]

I'm so worried that my dream isn't going to come true! I know there isn't anything I can do at this point besides wait. I think SDN has taken over my life because for some reason I feel like the more I check it, the higher chance I have of getting my prayers answered. I'm so weird hah

 

[jpeterman13]

I swear this whole vet school process is making me bipolar-one day, I'll wake up and be sure I'm not even getting an interview. The next, I'll be sure I'm going to XXXX school becuase my eLOR came from a graduate or my GRE is higher than their average or some other random reason. I can't sleep and check my email at 11 pm on a friday night to see if I got anything-obviously this is NOT when letters come out. I just check SDN all the time...I know that I haven't been accepted or declined yet, and worrying does NOTHING to help at all, but I can't help it. But yes this is constantly on my mind no matter how much I try to push it out. These next few months will be very hard.

That's called anticipatory anxiety, not bipolar disorder 😉. I check my email at ridiculous times too. Although, you seem to have a bit more hope than me. I'm pretty much sure that I'm not getting an interview at all...all the time. I have very few days where my outlook is positive.

 

[nyanko]

^^ I know what it's like. Hang in there.

 

[August24]

If you haven't heard anything there's still a chance, jpeterman13!! Today for me is a maybe day...I might get an interview, I might not. This past weekend was an all "I'm not going to make it" kind of thing-which is why I bought the largest bottle of diphenhydramine I could find to get me through the next few months...

I think this quite from the UPenn Acknowledgement letter says it best:

"This is a very important and stressful period in your life. We will make every attempt to ensure that your wait is as short as possible. We wish you a successful application season."

They've gotten enough phone calls and seen enough students to know how stressed we are-but I know that if an admission counselor took just 10 minutes to look at mine, he or she could make a decision!! But at lease I haven't been declined....yet....I'm not sure if I will be relieved or upset when I get the answer-which is probably a "try again next year"

 

[nyanko]

Truthfully - whether you are expecting the rejection or not, it hurts. We all put so much into getting where we are, and at least for me it is very difficult to really convey what I want an admissions committee to really know about me in the relatively short space that they give us.

The first time I applied two years ago, I had a lot different of an outlook than I have now. I'm absolutely terrified that I might not get to do what I'm doing now for the rest of my life, to be honest.

 

[luplodw]

I know! There are threads asking what we'd like to do if we didn't do vet med....but honestly I don't want to do ANYTHING else!! I mean I suppose i'd enjoy some things, but there isn't anything else i'd want to spend my life doing. I'd be devastated if I wasn't given that opportunity