I don't know, I think getting into any professional school is challenging and definitely nothing to sneeze at. I can promise I could apply to medical schools right now and not get into any of them because while I'm competitive for veterinary school that doesn't necessarily translate into being competitive for medical school even though one is ostensibly more difficult to get into. I think it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking about ourselves as vets vs physicians (or vs other healthcare providers), but I think this is where we sometimes fall into the fallacy of thinking that we are better at XYZ than other professionals are. I never want a physician trying to provide medical care to any of their pets even though they went through a rigorous and difficult program to become doctors, because their training is not appropriate for or within the scope of providing medical care for non-human animals. Similarly, I can't and shouldn't make medical decisions for humans, for the same reason. Veterinary school is difficult to get into. So is medical school. So is PT school, and pharmacy school, and dental school, etc etc etc.