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[DVMDream]

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I noticed today that VMCAS has a countdown on their front page for the application deadline. I can't believe that it is getting this close. Anyone else nervous/scared/slightly excited?

 

[rileyroo]

i haven't noticed, but i'm sooo nervous. my final LOR was submitted last night and i have printed almost all of the VMCAS. it's ready to submit, but i'm too nervous to officially submit it. i freak out when i think about it...thinking, should i change anything?? i have a fear of royally screwing it up and not being able to change anything

 

[DVMDream]

I have all my LOR's in and am half-way done with writing my Personal Statement. I am still waiting on my GRE scores tomorrow will be 3 weeks since I took it. I am so close to printing it out and hitting the submit button, but I am too afraid that I won't because I will be constantly second-guessing myself. I just can't wait until it is in and then I can just be nervous about waiting.

 

[GellaBella]

Count me in!

I'm still waiting on 3 people to write me recommendation letters. get your freaking acts together people!!! I told you about this in MAY. Its now september. WRITE ME A RECOMMENDATION.

so thats stressing me out.

i'm taking my GRE on Friday and for some reason my scores on my practice tests are going backwards, so THATS stressing me out.

I am trying to juggle finishing up a phD while taking a statistics course, an english composition course, animal science and animal nutrition. so THATs stressing me out.

and I haven't even started supplemental essays which all needs to get done ASAP, but after I take the GREs on Friday and only at night because I need to get some serious data in the lab in the next few weeks.

SO THAT IS STRESSING ME OUT.

dammit.

and can i just state, for the record, that I am very annoyed by how discombobulated these schools are in terms of their prereqs?

I wish they would just make things more uniform. some schools will take certain things to fulfill coursework, others wont, and if even one school decides not to take that class I've got to go out and take a whole 'nother course just to satisfy these requirements.

blah. venting. sorry. back to the GRE

 

[twelvetigers]

I'm talking the general GRE on October 12th and the bio one November 7th. I have an orgo test next Friday, a vert morph test the following Wednesday, a practical the following Monday, and another orgo test the Friday of that week. Then I have two weeks to really study for the GRE. I dunno when I'll study for the bio GRE.

Not finished with my PS either, and short two eLORs still.

I suppose it's all good practice for the multi-subject test bombardment that is vet school. I won't be working, writing a PS, or taking GREs then, so hopefully it evens out.

Arrrg! Lol. Oh, and I have orgo homework due tomorrow that I haven't started. Better get to it!

 

[psjlg2]

Yeah, that is scary. Time went by way too fast, but not quite fast enough because it would be nice if it was over and we were all getting our acceptances to our top schools😉
I'm still waiting on an LOR from one person who I told to write me a letter in early July, and have since bothered him twice and given him a thank-you letter with a bribe (coffee card) in it. I don't want to submit before he writes it because then I can't last minute get another one of my vet buddies to write me a letter. Oh well. I'll give him a week and go harass him again with an "Umm......hurry?"

 

[Mistoffeles]

not to add to anyone's stress . . . but . . .

i had one of my cornell supplemental eLORs flake out on me - so much so that two days before the deadline, when she hadn't submitted, and wouldn't return my calls 🙂scared🙂, I called my best friend who had volunteered at the shelter with me, and asked her to pretty please write a letter of rec on my behalf. she very graciously agreed, and couriered it to Cornell (plus extra copes to me for submission to Glasgow and RVC) so that it arrived on time. Cornell admissions had to go through a process to change the "registered" letter writer, and note my file that the letter was coming from an alternate source.

moral: if you're concerned about an evaluator, start contacting a backup. explain that you're really sorry to put them in a tight spot, but you're just up against a tree, and you could really use their help ("grovel, grovel / grovel, grovel / cringe, bow, stoop, fall / mercy, mercy / beg, kneel, sponge, crawl"). don't disparage your original evaluator (unless your backup happens to be your best friend - in my case, i vented for a solid half hour 🙂boom🙂 before actually getting around to my request, which by the time i asked, she was expecting) - but lay out the situation, and impress the urgency.

and do it now rather than wait until two days before.

just my 2p. 🙂

 

[twelvetigers]

I trust my evaluators. One is a backup anyway. But, she'll come through - she told me to pester her in to weeks, which will be Friday. The other, I work for, so she can't avoid me. 😉

 

[DVMDream]

I asked two of the vets I have worked for the past 4 years to write my LOR's back in June one of them got it done really quickly and I had to keep asking the other one if she had started it. When she still didn't have it done last week I made her an offer: if you submit it by Friday I will bring you cheese (she is a cheese freak) on Saturday. She got it done early Saturday morning (YAY!) and I still brought her cheese. My recommendation is to just keep politely reminding people and if all else fails bribery is perfectly ok. 😛

 

[ImaJerseyGirl]

I didn't notice until I read this post. I am logged in now to work on it, too! I missed it! I don't know if I am scared or nervous or excited. I think I am more in panic. For no reason really, I'm doing fine on the apps. I just want the whole thing to go away for a little while so I can SLEEP without nightmares!

I have to double check everything, add a few more details, get my GRE score from last week, and one more evaluation. To him it is not a big deal and no need for panic, but that is definitely NOT what my email conveyed last week!😎

Who is ready for this roller coaster ride c/o 2014?!

 

[DickVetPlease]

Only 1/3 of my LORs have been completed, and i need to finish/tweak the PS. We can submit VMCAS and then the LORs can be completed afterwards, right? I was thinking it would be easier to just submit sooner, then start the pestering afterwards.

Also waiting for official GRE scores to come in from Aug. 19th! They said it would be 10-15 days...anyone else having this problem??

 

[psjlg2]

Only 1/3 of my LORs have been completed, and i need to finish/tweak the PS. We can submit VMCAS and then the LORs can be completed afterwards, right? I was thinking it would be easier to just submit sooner, then start the pestering afterwards.

Thats what I want to do because I'm done with everything else I'm just worried my last ELOR will fall through and I won't be able to add another person.

 

[DVMDream]

Only 1/3 of my LORs have been completed, and i need to finish/tweak the PS. We can submit VMCAS and then the LORs can be completed afterwards, right? I was thinking it would be easier to just submit sooner, then start the pestering afterwards.

Also waiting for official GRE scores to come in from Aug. 19th! They said it would be 10-15 days...anyone else having this problem??

I also took the GRE on August 19th and I just got the official scores in the mail today! 😀 I think the holiday weekend may have pushed them back a little but I would give them a call if you don't get them this weekend. You can submit VMCAS before the LORs are done, but if you do then you can not change anything if one of them backs out. Good Luck everyone. I am rooting for all SDNers to be accepted for the class of 2014!!!