Some love for the multiple appliers

[Doggone DVM]

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I know the applications for 2010 are starting, so I just wanted to send a word of encouragement to anyone (like myself last year) finding themselves re-applying (again...ugh).

I know how much it hurts having to re-start a process that you worked and waited (...and waited... and worked) for, but keep that head up and get to it!

So that's my word of encouragement for the day!

Good luck guys- YOU CAN DO IT!!!

 

[philomycus]

Good luck everyone! Before you know it, it'll be Oct 1st already! Time will fly and you guys will do great! It took me 3 cycles and I (surprisingly) became more motivated with each cycle.

 

[robeezy08]

Great Thread!
After jumping through who knows how many hoops...stressing out over pre-reqs..working two jobs during grad program...studying and taking the GRE multiple times..worrying how I'm ever going to afford rent next month on crappy minimum wage...cleaning kennels..taking crap from coworkers, classmates AND some instructors....am finally, after 2 hellish VMCAS cycles, going to vet school. Geeze it was a rough rode....but it was totally worth it! So for all pre-vetters hang in there and good luck this cycle!!!!

And for those of you feeling a little down, check out this website and hopefully you'll feel a whole lot better 😀

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~geoffo/humour/flattery.html

 

[Pandacinny]

Good luck! I applied three times before being accepted this past year. Just keep working hard and improving - you CAN make it in!

 

[nyanko]

And if you stick around here, you'll find that lots of us root for the reapplicants the most. 😉

 

[ShelterGirl]

Trust me, it is sooooo worth the extra attempt(s). Best of luck!

 

[athane960]

Yes, GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[Truth74]

It's like a family around here, and we all like to root for each other. When one of us is a reapplicant and gets in, it's like (better than) a birthday, because we've gotten to know that person and invested in their future. This cycle is about to get to rolling, and some people aren't decided on where they're going yet. So, the time will fly by between cycles.

 

[TSUJC]

I found the successful applicant thread to be very inspiring when I was re-applying.

 

[guppy73]

The brain is currently awash in microbes (Pathogenic Micro final on Monday 😱), but I just wanted to kick in my 2 cents as well. I'm a second-timer--and looking back, I'm glad that I didn't get in the first time. I can almost hear my Mom saying "I told you so...."

If I had gotten in, I wouldn't have had the chance to take some extra classes for fun (yup, even the aforementioned micro), work on some great projects, and make some new friends that I wouldn't have known otherwise. In retrospect, it's been worth waiting for. And that acceptance e-mail this year was even sweeter. 🙂

So work hard, play hard, stay inspired, and try not to lose sight of the big picture. Best of luck to everyone out there! Once finals are done, I'll need to post on the Successful Applicants thread myself--still can't believe it! Now back to studying.....

 

[nyanko]

You know, guppy, I sort of know what you mean. This last year has been just amazing with the important contacts I've made and the stuff I've done and learned, and had I gotten in last cycle I wouldn't have been able to do any of it! Not that it's going to help me be any less of a nervous wreck for the next 10 months or so, but if I don't get in I'm okay with staying and doing a PhD right where I am, and maybe going for it a couple years down the road after my coursework is done like some others have done. Don't get me wrong, I know it's still what I want, but that isn't really incompatible with a PhD either (in fact, they quite go hand in hand!).

 

[Pandacinny]

I feel sort of the same way. Over the last year, I got a lot of really good experience and made lots of great contacts. I'm glad I was able to do that. I also lost one family member and almost lost my mom, so I'm thinking that adding in the stress of vet school would not have been a good thing. I'm pretty happy I was here at home, close to my family and I wouldn't trade my extra year and the quality time I spent with them for the world.

Sometimes, these things happen for the best. The vet I work most closely with didn't get in until her 3rd try either. She says that, 15 years from now, it won't matter how many application cycles you went through.

 

[guppy73]

I think that this is what it's all about, not giving up & giving each other a boost where it's needed:

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000086?v=5017561&l=100000085

I'll bring the backpack. 🙂

 

[twelvetigers]

The song at the end of that video is called "Heartbeats" and it's by The Knife and it's awesome. 🙂 I like the video too - hadn't seen it before!