So this is slightly off the topic of interviews (good luck tomorrow everyone!) But has anyone spoken to current students about the general competitiveness between students? It seemed like a very cooperative environment when I visited last week, but I recently spoke to someone who is applying to Purdue for a Phd in Psych at who said something (maybe) different. Part of their tour mentioned that the vet school has its own psychologist, who seems awesome, because of how competitive vet school is. Now I assumed that this was because like all vet schools, it's a hard program and people are stressed. However, she took it to mean that the environment between students is cutthroat. I wouldn't normally take too much weight on a person's opinion who isn't in vet school. However, this is not someone I know very well and she actually contacted me out of the bue because she was worried about me applying to Purdue without knowing about this hostile atmosphere.
So basically I'm asking, does anyone know if there is any true to what she was saying or was she just misinterpreting a hard curriculum as students being competitive against each other?